A recent camera trapping image of a gray fox. From Desert Photo Retreat near Tucson, Arizona.
Gambel’s Quail Family
This gambel’s quail family with at least 12 brand new little babies just showed up to the water drip at the Desert Photo Retreat! Granted, it is mid day light, and photographed through the dirty, tinted window of our RV. But, too cute not to share!
Kingwood Photo Club Presentation
A couple of bull moose in front of Denali, Denali National Park, Alaska.
On Tuesday I’m doing a Zoom presentation of Animalscapes; combining landscape and wildlife subjects for the Kingwood Photo Club just outside of Houston, Texas. The cool thing; they are letting anyone watch the zoom presentation for free. You just need to register in advance here: Kingwood Photo Club.
Lazuli Bunting
A Lazuli Bunting photographed through our RV window this morning as I ate breakfast. Spring has definitely arrived now that we are beginning to see buntings and orioles. I can hear chicks in most of our many cactus wren nests, the curved-billed thrashers are actively tending their nests, and we should be hearing woodpecker chicks within a week or two. Today’s high temperature is supposed to finally climb back to average for this time of year which should really help with the spring activity!
Camera Trapping Gray Fox
I had a trail camera set up in this little wash the last couple of weeks and noticed that the animals would sometimes use it to access our water hole. So last night I grabbed a bunch of flashes and set up knowing this would be the last night of this moon cycle to still capture stars in the sky. Got lucky and captured most of the fox! Normally if there is any abient light such as the moon in this case, the subject will be ghosted. Here the fox must have been holding perfectly still since it is sharp, maybe it sees a mouse.
Techs for the curious: Olympus OM-1, silent shutter, f/4, ISO 4,000 20 seconds. Usually I would go with a larger f-stop and shorter shutter speed, but the exact location of the subject wasn’t obvious, so I wanted a tad more depth of field. Two Godox flashes up close camera left and right at 128 power, another one on a stand camera right at 1/32 power which must not have fired since the right hand saguaros are dark, and a Nikon flash off in the distance camera left a 1/32 power. Camtraption triggers and sensors.
Striped Skunk
From last night. One of the advantages of a moonless night is the ability to capture the animal with stars. This is funny, I was working on the settings on the back of my camera when a striped skunk suddenly appeared on the LCD screen on the back of my camera. I thought, how could that be, it would have to be a couple of feet away…wait. Sure enough, I peaked over the top of the camera and watched a skunk walk right past me, past the water hole and off into the desert. It was like I didn’t exist which was pretty cool.
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