Fourteen Days in a Blind

Today’s accessibility to stream entire seasons of a show makes it easier than ever to become hooked on a series and watch from start to finish. We fall in love with the characters, cheering their successes and mourning their failures and losses. We love watching their stories unfold, unable to wait an extra minute to see what hardships they will Read More …

NHTL Photography Workshop Series

From the archives. In 2015 when I was still figuring things out I very stubbornly continued to shoot in JPG. This is one bird with a lot of extremes from black to white and raw mode would have helped to prevent clipping on each end of the spectrum. Also, with this birds vivid colors, over-saturation can occur with JPG that Read More …

Woody on Ice

Since I began photographing Wood Ducks in 2014 I have dreamed of a shot with a drake in nuptial plumage surrounded by ice or snow. Wood Ducks typically migrate south before the first snow falls so it’s not a common sight in upstate New York. In the spring of 2016 we had a deep freeze after the Woodies had returned Read More …

Photographing Wood Ducks in the Wild

“What an ornament to a river to see that glowing gem floating in contact with its waters!” – Henry David Thoreau, writing about the drake Wood Duck Yesterday was World Photography Day and on social media I wrote briefly about my beginnings, five years ago when I set out to photograph wood ducks at my favorite, local wetland.  I thought I Read More …