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Marty’s photo of the day #5207: I’ve stepped back while shooting photos of bears and moose, but I never dreamed I’d step back while shooting photos of orca whales. It was early morning on the Johnstone Strait of Vancouver Island. The extreme low tide meant I could walk out onto the newly exposed rocky beach […]
Marty’s photo of the day #5206: When it rained this week at the Essen Wildlife Refuge, we got diamonds. They were much prettier than all that tacky gold at the White House.
Marty’s photo of the day #5205: This is an immature bald eagle with the fish it caught. What you can’t see are the ravens in hot pursuit. (Photographed last month on Vancouver Island.)
Marty’s photo of the day #5204: I lost track of how many geckos, lizards, and crabs I rescued from bathrooms while visiting Indonesian New Guinea last year. If I remember correctly, this one was the fastest of them all, requiring teamwork with my wife to wrangle and return to the outdoors.
Marty’s photo of the day #5203: “You can’t see us. We’re invisible!” (Photographed last month on Vancouver Island.)
How much photo editing is too much for a nature shot? Ansel Adams heavily altered and improved his photos in the darkroom, famously viewing the photographic negative as a musical score and the final darkroom print as the performance. As for me, I have traditionally come down on the side of getting my images 90 […]
Marty’s photo of the day #5202: This is a nurse shark, photographed last year off the coast of Belize.
Marty’s photo of the day #5201: “And remember Americans, whether you vote early or vote on Election Day, vote left. Not only will your vote improve life for humans worldwide, but it will also improve life for endangered species like me.” (Galapagos penguin. Photographed in the Galapagos Islands.)
Marty’s photo of the day #5200: Deb and I enjoyed a lengthy encounter with this beautiful hawksbill turtle, watching it eat and surface before swimming away. (Photographed two years ago off the coast of Bonaire.)
Marty’s photo of the day #5199: This is a burrowing owl, photographed at sunset, with barely enough light, in the American Prairie of central Montana.
Marty’s photo of the day #5198: The fish in the foreground is a bird wrasse (terminal phase), and the fish in the background is a manybar goatfish. Interesting fact: all bird wrasses start out as female (initial phase). When the dominant male in a harem dies or leaves, the largest, most dominant female undergoes the […]
Marty’s photo of the day #5197: I’ve mentioned before how much I fell in love with the wild donkeys on Bonaire. For this photo, I was on my knees, hoping to capture an image of the young donkey in the background. Then an older donkey does a foreground-photobomb. “Photograph me! I’m much cuter.”
Marty’s photo of the day #5196: When one sea lion gets in the way of another, no problem. Just crawl over! (Photographed in the Galapagos Islands.)
Marty’s photo of the day #5195: These are Galapagos tortoises (also known as giant tortoises). They had stopped at a waterhole along their migration route from the humid highlands to the dry lowlands of Santa Cruz island. (Photographed in the Galapagos Islands.)
Marty’s photo of the day #5194: In the interest of species variety, I’m going to temporarily switch from the Vancouver Island photos I’ve been posting during the past month and dig deeper into the files containing photos I’ve shot in other parts of the world. This is a spinecheek anemonefish, photographed last year in the […]
Marty’s photo of the day #5193: There’s nothing quite like crawling out of a tent before sunrise on the Johnstone Strait and watching the haunting scenery take shape as the morning fog dissipates. (Photographed on Vancouver Island.)
Marty’s photo of the day #5192: I had fun shooting bird action shots on Vancouver Island. Later, when I examined the images, I was surprised by how many different species of gull I had photographed. These are California gulls.
Marty’s photo of the day #5191: I just love looking at this greater yellowlegs picture on a big screen. I’m not sure if it will produce the same effect if viewed on a smartphone screen, however. (Photographed last month on Vancouver Island.)
Marty’s photo of the day #5190: Triple orca whales, photographed last month on the Johnstone Strait, off Vancouver Island.
Marty’s photo of the day #5189: Here’s a trio of black turnstones. These birds get their name because they often flip over stones, shells, and seaweed along rocky shorelines to find food. (Photographed on Vancouver Island.)
