While I was at my son’s house this weekend, the neighborhood turkeys stopped by. Not shy at all. As I photographed one of them, it became agressive, loud, started pecking at the lens shade of my telephoto lens. I backed up slowly, and reached in my truck for a piece of pipe. No- I didn’t hit it, I am a nature photographer. But it did take the hint and rejoined the rest. This image is of one of the others, and as you can see it wasn’t bothered by the action going on around it.
I just added a new gallery of photograpghs to my website. It’s all about the clouds. Sometimes I look up and end up mesmerized by the changing forms. Then I reach for the camera, and select areas that move me…
Just back from a trip to Florida and a few days in Puerto Rico. The tropical warmth and sunny weather were fantastic. While in southern Florida for six days, I was amazed at the ease of photographing wildlife. Before I reached the highway when leaving the airport in Fort Myers, I had already seen turkey vultures and two deer. And it just got better. From the man-made pond in our friends’ back yard, to the Venice waterfront, Ding Darling wildlife refuge and the beach at Sanibel, and a couple of state parks, the images of birds, reptiles, insects and dolphins just kept coming. It makes working on wildlife photography here on Cape Cod feel very frustrating!
To see the rest of my Florida wildlife photos, click here- http://preuphoto.photoshelter.com/gallery/Florida-Wildlife/G0000HTTvDZNG4jk
I came upon this hawk purely by chance. While backing-up my truck, I saw something with my peripheral vision. Most people would have missed it, but I am always distracted by the unexpected. When seeing something like this, I am reminded how glad I am to be at the top of the local food chain, and not looking over my shoulder like a squirrel!
After the hawk was finished, there was little more than a pile of feathers…
Even though my main area of interest is photographing the natural beauty of Cape Cod, I always bring my camera. I have a new gallery on my website in which I will post some of my favorite images from the rest of my world. http://preuphoto.photoshelter.com/gallery/Other-Places/G0000bClIw_Ri59s
Hoppy Easter from the Easter Bunny!
An immature herring gull attepted to eat this whelk on teh shore of Pleasant Bay in Harwich. After being unable to get into the shell, it lost interest and moved on to a dead crab. I took the opportunity to create a few images of the whelk before returning it to the relative safety of the water.
The apparent atttitude of this immature common tern was reminiscent of the famous “Mad Bluebird” photograph. It was part of a group of terns I found on the shore of Round Cove in Harwich.
It’s the end of summer, and the tropics are active. In the past week two storms passed by. Tropical storm Danielle kicked up some beautiful ocean swell while staying far at sea. Hurricane Earl had us scurrying to prepare, but ended up only giving us heavy rain. This is is a photo from Tuesday of the great surfing at Nauset.
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