Nature Photography
Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose a crane family in Illinois, USA. When photographer Stan Kirschner saw these sandhill cranes, he ran home to grab his camera. Have you taken some amazing wildlife photos during your travels?
Videos
Fireflies (also known as “lightning bugs” in some parts of the country) were one of the bonuses I got when, several years ago, I traded my house in the city for a more rurally located home with a large, wraparound porch.
Nature Photography
Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we selected a South African leopard. Photographer Vicky Marella was visiting Kruger National Park when she spotted this leopard taking a walk nearby. Have you taken some amazing wildlife photos during your travels?
Nature & Wildlife
Sometimes a single picture isn’t enough. Wildlife photographers often struggle with capturing a scene for a number of reasons – the subject is facing the wrong direction, the lighting is poor, composition angles are limited, or simply the subject is moving.
Nature Photography
Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose a bald eagle coming in for a nest landing. Photographer Janice Lichti captured this moment as she watched an eagle pair care for their young.
Latin America
Patagonia is one of those places that pulls on your heart as it slowly seeps into your veins. For me, it is achingly desolate, solitary and beautiful in its aloneness.
Europe
Every time I see a puffin, the same thought comes to mind: They’re not real, right? They’re too impossibly cute. For me and for everyone else on the planet, I bet, they seem just too adorable to be of natural origins. But they are.
Nature Photography
Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose a tender moment with a fox family. Photographer Rob Julien came upon a mother feeding her cubs along a rural road on an early morning in Ottawa.
Europe
There is nothing so beautiful as the wild Highlands of Scotland—with the exception of, perhaps, its feral islands. Scotland has nearly 800 of them, most of which are found in four main groups: Orkney, Shetland, and the Outer and Inner Hebrides. And one of the wildest in the Inner Hebrides is Handa Island.
Nature Photography
Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we selected a tiger in India. Photographer Michael Cadem’s guide positioned him in the right place to capture the moment this tiger made eye contact while drinking at a water hole.
Videos
When I first picked up a camera several years ago, birds were some of my first wildlife subjects. They were readily available in my backyard and local gardens and parks, and their accessibility and numbers made them appealing—even if any particular bird didn’t stay in one place for very long.
Europe
Surrounded by the bracing waters of the North Sea to the east, and the North Atlantic Ocean to the west and north, Scotland is a place of rugged coastlines, of mountains and valleys, and of rolling hills and green fields.
