White Ibis in Breeding Plumage Millers Lake - Taken with Nikon D2X and Nikkor 300 AFS F/4 with TC-14e Teleconverter

Bird Photography Equipment on a Budget (2020 Update)

February 18, 2020 in Photo Tours

Bird Photography on a Budget

The equipment for bird photography can be very expensive. Part of this is the nature of the business, photographing small moving objects requires long telephoto lenses and effective autofocus systems
Beginning bird photographers would be well served with a good cropped sensor camera body and 400 mm f/5.6 lens or a 300 mm f/4 lens with a 1.4x teleconverter. By applying several common sense strategies you can acquire such a system at a reduced cost.

Aluminum Hulled Boat Used on my Photo Tours

Boats for Photographing in the Swamp

February 11, 2020 in Photography

Photographing nature in Southern Louisiana often means shooting from a boat. Previously, I discussed techniques for shooting in a boat. For this post, I'm talking about what type of boat to use in the swamp.

Backlit Cypress–Lake Dauterive–November, 2019

November 2019 Newsletter

November 23, 2019

November Fall Photo Tour

We just finished an excellent photo tour with ideal weather and fall colors. Photo locations were Lake Martin, Lake Dauterive, and Henderson Swamp. Highlights of the trip included a spectacular sunset at Lake Martin, magnificent sunrise and backlit fog at Lake Dauterive, Thousands of swarming tree swallow's at Henderson Swamp.

Roseate Spoonbill Taking Flight–Jefferson Island March 2017

Scouting Trip for the 2017 Photo Tours

March 19, 2017 in Photo Tours, Photography

Yesterday, March 18th, 2017, I made my first trip to check out the sites I use for my April and May Louisiana Bird Photography Tours. I visited Lake Martin, Jefferson Island, and the Wading Bird Rookery located in Klondike Louisiana.

Cattle Egret Returning to Nest with a Stick - Jefferson Island

May 1st 2016 Photo tour

May 09, 2016

When I arrived early Sunday morning May 1st, the weather was not looking promising for the tour starting that evening. I sat out a torrential downpour in the car at Lake Martin and thre were reports of I-49 being closed due to flooding. The forcast was dismal until Wednesday morning, the last day of the tour.

Fortunately things did not work out as forecast I this is one of the best Spring Lousiana Bird Photo Tours I've done to date.

Bird Photography Equipment on a Budget

January 30, 2015 in Photo Tours

Bird Photography on a Budget

Photographing Stunning Louisiana Landscapes in the Fog.

January 16, 2015

There are many foggy mornings in Southern Louisiana. This is very fortunate! I love to photograph Foggy Cypress Scenes over the water. The limited vision afforded by the fog enables the trees to be seen against a stark white background. Even better, mornings with low lying fog allow the photographer to create stunning images of the fog appearing to be on fire.

2015 Photo Tours and a Review of the 2014 Photo Tours

January 02, 2015

The 2015 Photo Tour schedule (link) has been published and I’m looking forward to another great year of photographing with a great group of people...

Photographic opportunities were spectacular for the 2014 Photo Tours.

Preparing for a Photo Trip–Part 3

April 08, 2013 in Photography

The third of the series from the old Web site. Final Preparations

Roseate Spoonbill Collecting sticks

Roseate Spoonbills tending chicks

Roseate Spoonbills building a nest

Roseate Spoonbills

Roseate Spoonbill

Roseate Spoonbills overhead

Roseate Spoonbill in Flight

Roseate Spoonbill Feeding Chick

Roseate Spoonbill Family

Roseate Spoonbill - Motion Blurr

Photographing the Roseate Spoonbill

April 08, 2013 in Photo Tours

I've moved this from my old Web site. While I've updated the images using a slide show rather than the original in-line images, the content remains the same.