Pro Tips
How I Got This Shot: Tiny Owl, Big Science
Deep in Arizona’s Chiricahua Mountains, the forest comes alive after dark. While most sensible people are tucked into bed, scientists are wandering through the woods listening for tiny owls that…
Natural Photographer Blog
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Pro Tips
How to Get This Shot: The World’s Smallest Owl
There are few things in bird photography more humbling than spending hours hiking through the Arizona heat looking for a bird roughly the size of an angry potato. Enter the…
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Pro Tips
Run a Background Check: It’s Most of Your Photo
Here’s an uncomfortable truth: your subject is not the whole photo. I know, betrayal. You spent all that money on a big lens, got up before sunrise, skipped the second…
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Pro Tips
Shot Settings: Shorebird on the Shore
There is something deeply satisfying about photographing shorebirds. No dramatic mountain backdrop. No epic predator-prey interaction. Just a small bird, busy at work, doing what it has done for thousands…
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Pro Tips
Chasing Feathers: Tips & Techniques for Better Bird Photography
Whether you’re trekking through a Brazilian wetland or perched quietly in your own backyard, photographing birds is a rewarding challenge. These feathered subjects are fast, flighty, and rarely follow direction,…
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Learn by Example
How to Get this Shot: Raven’s Breath in Yellowstone
Photographing wildlife in extreme conditions can yield breathtaking results, both figuratively and literally. My image above, what I’ve named Raven’s Breath, was taken in Yellowstone National Park in the heart…
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Learn by Example
How To Get This shot – Bee-Eater in Tanzania
The birds of Africa don’t generally get the limelight in photography, as they tend to be upstaged by the larger, more well-known fauna like lions, giraffes, and elephants. However, when…
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Gear We Love
Nikon Z6: A wildlife photographer’s perspective
By Guest Contributor Mac Mirabile My passion for photography began more than 20 years ago, before digital SLRs, with coursework in photojournalism. The drive to document what I see and…
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Pro Tips
The Best Settings for Bird Photography
Wow – the best settings, huh? Well, truthfully, saying that one combination of settings is the best is a bit like saying you only have one kind of food that…