Category: Nature Photography
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Backyard Visitors
Even when we’re not traveling, we still enjoy wildlife. Birds, butterflies, moths, deer, and raccoons are regular backyard visitors. Here are five quick photos from last spring (2024) that had been sitting in an unpublished post for too long. We captured these using a Nikon D750 with a Nikkor 200-500 f/5.6 lens. Double-click on any…
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Birdbath Beauties
18 April 2024 — Thursday When we aren’t traveling, we enjoy watching local wildlife in our backyard. We have a good view of a bird bath from our dining spot. It may be time to get on the road again as we’ve been making up dialogue from the bird interactions as dinnertime entertainment. Here’s last…
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Manatee Holidays
30 December 2023 Here are a few fun and free places to see wildlife near Largo, Florida. Visiting with Mark’s mom over the holidays, we took a short trip across Tampa Bay to the Manatee Viewing Center. The Tampa Electric Power plant outputs warm water that attracts these interesting mammals on chilly winter days. If…
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Hummers
We don’t post much when on the road, but had good luck capturing hummingbirds this morning. We set the camera up on a tripod and used a phone app to focus and trip the shutter. This is an updated set of photos from the third day of shooting. Enjoy…
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Canada’s Capital
25-26 July 2023 We spent two days exploring Ottawa by bus, boat, and foot. and share photos from our first visit to Canada’s Capital City. First of all, thanks are due to “Byron’s Urban Oasis” Boondockers Welcome host. Unfortunately, we never met them, but we truly appreciate the opportunity to sleep in their city driveway…
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Pembroke to Ottawa’s Botanical Gardens
24 July 2023 Monday Today we travel from Pembroke to Ottawa, stopping at small towns along the river on the way to Canada’s capital. Pembroke, ONSunrise view out our window. We dumped the waste tanks and filled our water before leaving the city campground. 0856 58,040 70°F Leave Campground We stopped in downtown Pembroke…
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