I photographed this nine-banded armadillo on Merritt Island in Florida. Armadillos are virtually blind, so the trick to a close approach is to position yourself downwind and stay quiet. I was both in this case, until the armadillo either heard something or caught my scent and started to sniff the air for a few more clues. Nikon D300 with Nikkor 200-400mm lens (at 270mm) ISO 400, f/5.6 at 1/2000th of a second.
These squirrel monkeys were daily visitors to the mango trees in the backyard of the lodge I was staying at in Guyana. They are appropriately named as they really are about the size of a common grey squirrel. Nikon Z8 with Nikkor 500mm PF lens, ISO 1800, f/5.6 at 1/500th of a second.
We’ve just had a spot open up on our next Kenya/Uganda safari in June of this year. Let me know if you’d like to join us and I’ll get you the information. We’ll be doing our usual national parks in Kenya before heading to Uganda for gorillas — we can accommodate either a single person or two people sharing a tent. This silverback was photographed on our trip to Uganda in June of 2023. Nikon Z8 with Nikkor 70-200mm lens (at 175mm) ISO 5000, f/2.8 at 1/640th of a second.
I had to shoot through a lot of foreground foliage for this one, but according to my guide, this subspecies of the green and rufous kingfisher is a rarity — at least for the area of Guyana that we were hiking in. Nikon Z8 with Nikkor 500mm PF lens, ISO 1800, f/5.6 at 1/500th of a second.
Who knows what this discussion was about between these two rockhopper penguins. I captured this one on my first day in the Falkland Islands back in 2014. Nikon D800 with Nikkor 17-35mm lens (at 17mm) ISO 1600, f/2.8 at 1/500th of a second.
I generally prefer a bit of background with my owl-in-flight shots, but this guy was intent on roosting on one of the taller trees in the area and had already risen above the background tree line. Photographed on my first trip to Sax Zim Bog in northern Minnesota in 2021. Nikon D500 with Nikkor 500mm PF lens, ISO 800, f/5.6 at 1/2000th of a second.
This black howler monkey was hanging out in a tree above the flooded grasslands of the Pantanal in Brazil. They are a sexually dimorphic species, meaning the males and females have contrasting coloring. The males (like this guy) are almost uniformly black, while the females and young are mostly golden in color. Nikon D300 with Nikkor 200-400mm lens (at 550 with 1.4 teleconverter) ISO 800, f/5.6 at 1/500th of a second
This was one of the first opossums I captured when I started camera trapping in my backyard four years ago. A young one, out searching for a snack in the middle of the night. Nikon D810 with Nikkor 17-35mm lens (at 17mm) ISO 400, f/14 at 1/80th of a second, Cognisys camera box, trail monitor and flash units).
I captured this white rhinoceros crossing a dry river bed as we were leaving Nairobi National Park on the final night of our trip to Kenya last April. The horizontal layers of color on the rhino almost mimick the colors of the sky. You can also see deep scratches across the upper body of the rhino, likely from branches and thorns while walking through the thick bushes. Nikon Z8 with Nikkor 70-200mm lens (at 70mm) ISO 450, f/2.8 at 1/400th of a second.
I met this handsome guy on our trip to the Galápagos Islands back in 2012. In fact, I met a lot of these guys. They’re everywhere in the Galápagos and each island has its own slight color variation. This one was on Fernandina Island where they tended to have a bit more orange mixed in with the black, along with a touch of green. As the name suggests, they live in and out of the water. They eat the seaweed and algae on the ocean floor but then return to land to spend a good portion of the day sunning themselves on the volcanic rock of the islands. Nikon D700 with Nikkor 17-35mm lens (at 17mm) ISO 400, f/8 at 1/250th of a second.