Critters

Wow, it' been a while! I got a new camera and was dying to use it, so even though it was freezing cold, I drug my family out to Antelope island for family night. Even though it was cold, the animals were very active and we got to see, Bison, Antelope, Deer, and even a pair of Coyotes. It was worth it! Here are a few shots of an Antelope. The deer have mostly shed their antlers, the Deer pics I'm posting here are from Bear Lake around the first of the year.


D4, 1/160 sec, f/9.0, 400mm, ISO 100


D4, 1/1250 sec, f/5, 80mm, ISO 1250


D4, 1/1600 sec, f/5, 80mm, ISO 1250


D4, 1/60 sec, f/5.3, 250mm, ISO 12800
It was pretty dark, but we still got this shot. notice the one buck has his antlers, and the one on the left just dropped his. These bucks were on the island.


D700, 1/1250 sec, f/4.8, 340mm, ISO 800
Bear Lake bucks


D700, 1/800 sec, f/4.8, 340mm, ISO 800


D700, 1/1250 sec, f/4.8, 340mm, ISO 800


D700, 1/1000 sec, f/4.8, 340mm, ISO 800


D700, 1/100 sec, f/11, 102mm, ISO 800

Road side elk

On my way home from Jackson Hole Wyoming the other day, I noticed this herd of elk trotting along side the highway. So I pulled ahead of them, Jumped out, set up my camera, and fired away. It was snowing quite hard but it kind of added something cool to the photos.


D300s, 1/640 sec, f/4.8, ISO 200, 340mm


D300s, 1/1250 sec, f/5.6, ISO 320, 340mm (Cropped)


D300s, 1/1250 sec, f/5.6, ISO 320, 340mm

Kauai, Whales

I had no idea Kauai was going to be so awesome, I took just over 2,800 photos during our vacation. One of the things I was most excited about, was the new underwater housing I got for our Canon G10. It proved to be well worth the money. Catching a photo of a whale in action, while being thrown around by the sea is no easy feet, especially if you want that photo to be in focus! It was a lot harder than I thought.


D700, f/7.1, 1/500 sec, ISO 200, 270mm
This was a male whale attempting to get the attention of nearby female.


D700, f/7.1, 1/800 sec, ISO 200, 270mm
Here a calf partially breaches just after her mother, to bad I missed the mom, she came right out of the water!


G10, f/2.8, 1/60 sec, ISO 80, 6.1mm
It may not look like much, but this is the mother and calf that swam right under our boat. By the time I swithed cameras, and pushed my little G10 under the water for some luck shots, we had drifted farther away. According to my camera, this whale was 70 yards away. I had no idea what to do, I just pointed it in the general direction, and hoped for the best.

Farmington Bay

I surprised Hunter today and took him out to see some Bald Eagles, He had a riot! He used my spotting scope while I took some photos. Somehow I need to figure out how to get a real long lens. Hunter would get so excited every time he spotted an eagle, he was even doing an awesome job of panning the spotting scope all by himself and making some impressive finds. Here are some shots we got today.

Birding

Went out to Farmington Bay this afternoon with Troy Parkin. We saw a ton of bald eagles, but they were so far away. Got this shot right off the side of the road. Overcast light made it hard at these distances but these shots turned out good enough to share.



I had no idea this bald eagle had a fish in it's claws, till I zoomed way in on my monitor. This shot is way cropped in, this the lack in image quality.