With the advent of its technology being more advanced than its competitors, Sony has gained a significant market share in its photography segment despite being viewed as consumer electronics instead of professional gear by many photographers.
To add to the injury, we had been having a heavy fog blanketing the owl hunting ground, resulting in poor visibility of both the owl and photographers.
A new scene faded in with a female grebe swimming along the tall green vegetation on the right side of the bank looking rather peeved. There were movements on her back.
“Mama, mama, he bit me again..”
“Please make him stop mama..”
The grebes engage in an elaborate courtship ritual maneuver called rushing during the spring mating season in which the male and female lift their torsos out of the water and run across the surface side by side for about sixty feet.
The long drought was over after we were blessed with ample rain pour filling up reservoirs everywhere. Spring Valley pond, located at Ed R. Levin County Park, Milpitas, CA has made a fresh come back inviting wildlife and human alike after such a long and lethargic break. The small pond which is popular for trout fishing, has long luring shorebirds and raptors alike ranging from pelicans, cormorants, egrets, herons, to ospreys and the majestic bald eagles to feast on the trouts stocked by the Department of Fish and Wildlife to the pond. The trout stocking has invited anglers and photographers […]
Lloyd Lake – GPS co-ordinates: 37.770278, -122.482222, also known as Mirror Lake of Kissane Lake, is a clay-lines lake in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. It is a small lake but nonetheless it manages to attract many of our feathered friends to frequent as food is rather of abundance here. The fact that many local residents bring food to feed the birds and ducks has attracted them by a big number. The birds seem to recognize their feeders and would get excited and uniformly flock to the usual feeding spot as soon as the feeders are within their vicinity. Feeding […]
Summer time is usually a slow season for a weekend wildlife photographer like me. This is what we’re referring rainy days to when we were asked why we did not post all the pictures taken from an outing and we just replied we’re saving for the raining days. Time to revisit my HDD vault to see if there are any interesting enough shots that can be shared. My buddy Conrad Tan has posted an article about this trip on Fred Miranda before, but since this is one of many great trips we made over the years, it doesn’t hurt to […]
It’s that time of year again. In addition to the American Kestrel nesting at Coyote Hills Regional Park, we are very blessed to be visited by a pair of Bald Eagle that decided to build their nest in a cluster of pine trees located right in front of the Curtner Elementary School located at 275 Redwood Ave., Milpitas. This occurrence is considered extremely rare since we would not see the national bird nesting in such a noisy public place. I know many of you would roll your eyes when you see the word ‘rare’. Well, it’s definitely not something we […]
Despite getting wet, cold, and uncomfortable, shooting in the rain can be fun and challenging. Depending on the time of the day and visibility of the sun, the soft lighting can compliment your shots by reducing the usual shadows and highlights problems caused by daytime natural lighting. I always look forward and overcome with excitement to shooting in the rain after knowing from the weather forecast that rain is coming over the weekend. Besides who doesn’t welcome some pouring with severe draught we have been experiencing over the last five years in the bay area. My favorite spot for shooting […]