Planning a photo trip to a place you have never been before can be daunting. There is a certain balance of excitement and anxiety that goes with this. Excitement because its someplace new and then […]
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Red Fox and Sand Dunes
Over the course of the last week I have going pretty much non stop. Doug Gardner was in town with the film crew for Wild Photo Adventures and we were shooting an episode for season […]
Egret Rookeries
Its springtime again, and love is in the air. Like so many other wildlife photographers in the East, each year around this time I make my annual pilgrimage down south some the key bird rookeries […]
St. Augustine HDR
A little over a year ago I was down in St. Augustine to photograph wading birds at the Alligator Farm. Friend’s of mine live down that way and so while I was down I spent […]
Wild Horse Photography Workshops
[xr_video id=”3fd08341a99449008467d241c2456d0b” size=”sm”] Back in January over the course of our Wild Horses and Waterfowl workshops, Doug Gardner shot this footage. Something of a teaser for whats to come. . .
Visual Exploration
I’m currently working on a project photographing the giant migratory sand dunes of North Carolina. These migratory dunes were created thousands of years ago when the elevation of these islands began to build up from […]
mud puddle mallards
So here we were, 5 days into a shoot for the South Carolina Waterfowl Association and the birds just weren’t there. By this point things had become pretty routine for us. At 5 am the […]
Horses in the Snow
Believe it or not, it does in fact actually snow here on the Outer Banks. Now, this doesn’t happen very often, maybe once a year, but snow we get none the less. Well this weekend […]
Fire and Ice
Its been cold lately. I mean really cold. By southern standards, its been arctic cold. And as you would expect when temperatures plummet to below freezing for several days, everything has been frozen solid. In […]
The Skies Darkened
I’ve have always felt cheated out of this Earth’s great wonders by being born to my generation. I read the accounts of William Bartram, John Lawson, the first expeditions to the Carolina coast, those first […]
Pea Island Snow Geese
As is the case most mornings that I am out photographing, the alarm went off at 4:00 am and I was on the road by 4:30. My original destination was to be Poccosin Lakes National […]
Tundra Swans of Mattamuskeet
Once again the frigid cold fronts that swept through the last week brought pay dirt to our area in the form of waterfowl. The eastern population of the Tundra Swan – formally known as the […]
Wild Horses of the Carolina Coast workshop
Yesterday I led another wild horse photography workshop up on Carova Beach. As the cold front came through the night before, temperatures went from a high of 76 to a high of only 44 […]
immersing onself in the abstract
I have been working on a story for Wildlife in North Carolina magazine about barrier island migration. Every barrier island in the world is migrating. Its just the nature of these sandbars. As ocean levels […]
OBX Pro 2009 – The Final Showdown
Benny Bourgeios out of Writesville Beach took first place this year, following up his first place title up in Belmar NJ last weekend. Despite the fact that its nearly midnight, I’m plastered in salt, and I […]