The Nancy Ma’s night Monkey is found in the rainforests of Brazil and Peru. I spotted this one (and a friend) on the first night of my trip to Peru in April. Check out those long fingers, and the permanent smile on the face. Nikon D500 with Nikkor 500mm PF lens, ISO 800, f/7.1 at 1/200th of a second, Godox V860III flash.
Hope everyone had a great holiday. To get things going again, here’s a young cheetah cub taking a quick rest in-between chasing siblings across the savanna. Nikon Z8 with Nikkor 500mm PF lens, ISO 1800, f/5.6 at 1/1250th of a second.
This is one of the many white-tailed deer that has walked past my backyard camera trap over the last few years. She showed up in time to capture the sun rising in the background. I see these guys nearly every night when I take the dog out for his nightly walk before bed. With my headlamp on, I usually see one or more sets of eyes shining back at me from the woods surrounding our house. Nikon D810 with Nikkor 20mm lens, ISO 500, f/14 at 1/250th of a second, Cognisys camera box, trail monitor and remote flash units.
Yellow-billed teal are a duck species native to the southern half of South America. This flock was flying over a lake in Torres Del Paine National Park in Patagonian Chile. A bit of rain and autumn colors on the hillside provided a nice backdrop. Nikon D500 with Nikkor 200-400mm lens (at 380mm) ISO 3200, f/4 at 1/3200th of a second.
This one goes back a few years when I visited Yellowstone at the beginning of the fall season. The bachelor herds were still high in the alpine tundra while the ewes and their lambs were at lower elevations. These two posed for a few nice portraits before getting back to grazing. Nikon D810 with Nikkor 200-400mm lens (at 380mm) ISO 2000, f/4 at 1/400th of a second.
We had a nice low vantage point on this hippo pool, which is unusual from a safari vehicle. We kept waiting for one of the hippos to show us those giant teeth but it was a relatively subdued group and they weren’t exactly cooperating. Finally this guy let out a bit of a half-hearted yawn and this was the best I could do. Photographed in the Masai Mara of Kenya on our recent trip. Nikon Z8 with Nikkor 500mm PF lens, ISO 3600, f/5.6 at 1/1250th of a second.
I’m starting to pull together a trip to Guyana for late January. In my research, I see I’ll have another shot at white-throated toucans. I’ve photographed them recently in Peru, and also on my first trip to Bolivia where this image was taken in Madidi National Park. Toucan tongues are a lot like a woodpecker’s tongue. It almost looks like a feather. The bristles along the edges help the toucan taste and catch food before eating it.Nikon D300 with Nikkor 200-400mm lens (at 400mm) ISO 800, f/4 at 1/800th of a second.
This woolly monkey was putting on quite a show for us and very nearly jumped into our canoe. We were paddling through the flooded rainforest of the upper Amazon basin in Peru when he came to investigate and say hello. Nikon D850 with Nikkor 70-200mm lens (at 78mm) ISO 1600, f/2.8 at 1/125th of a second.
This silverback mountain gorilla was taking an afternoon nap in the ferns of Mgahinga National Park in the Virunga Mountains of Uganda. Nikon Z8 with Nikkor 70-200mm lens, ISO 2800, f/2.8 at 1/250th of a second.
Sometimes called the southern spectacled caiman, these crocodilians are endemic to Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil and Paraguay. I photographed this one in the Pantanal of Brazil where some 10 million live, up considerably since the 1980s when they were hunted for their leather. Nikon D300 with Nikkor 200-400mm lens. (at 350mm) ISO 400, f/4 at 1/500th of a second.