I’m not usually big on photographing gators, most of the time they just lie there in front of the worst possible background you can imagine. Sometimes you get lucky though. The water levels in Lettuce lake in the Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary have dropped so much that at this point there’s only a few very small [...]

The trip wasn’t only shooting pelicans, and while the population of shorebirds I’ve been shooting on the past couple of trips wasn’t there, there were birds. One of the few peeps (small sandpipers) I saw, I think all told I only saw a handful on the beach all day.

Wildlife photographer Moose Peterson posted an entry on his blog regarding a question he is apparently asked with some regularity “which is better, FX or DX, for wildlife photography”. I think the most appropriate and telling comment though is his closing sentence, “Oh yeah, photo taken with FX or DX? Does it matter?” I think [...]

One of the nice things I find about the Sanibel beaches is that you almost always have large easy to track targets moving along the beach continuously. Those targets, are Brown Pelicans, and I find them to be quite nice in many ways. They are fairly predictable in their flight patterns, and are very clear [...]

I just got back from a brief overnight sojourn to the west coast of Florida, specifically Sanibel Island. I had gone over mostly to stop at and check out the Audubon Society’s Corkscrew Swam Sanctuary, but it’s hard to pass up a sunset over there. This one shot (above) poses a bit of a dilemma [...]

The week is over and the G10 has gone home, so this concludes my week of playing with the Canon PowerShot G10.  Overall I feel it’s been a very successful experience. I’m not sure I’d buy one personally, it certainly could go places my SLR can’t, but the low light performance really isn’t there for [...]

Yesterday I shot another sunset with the G10, this time shooting some video as well as 14.7 MP RAW stills. In doing so I found one of my first major complaints with the G10′s video mode, specifically video is processed in full auto exposure, with no exposure lock. Much to my chagrin, in the fleeting [...]

I took the G10 out last night to see how it performed after dark, mostly just because. Other than cropping and cloning out some light sources there was very little done to this image, in terms of noise reduction. It’s a 15 second exposure at f/8 ISO 80. On the other hand, this similarly exposed [...]