I go to Nebraska pretty much every year now…at least once in the spring…sometimes twice in March or early April. The trip is mainly to see the crane migration but it might also involve Prairie Chickens or Sharptail Grouse…all are birds I enjoy taking pictures of. On this last visit, I came across a new … Read more
I was talking to my wife the other day about a photographer named Clyde Butcher. He’s been making images for a long, long time now…and most of his work was with an 8X10 box film camera. It was heavy and cumbersome because it took a robust tripod just to keep the thing steady. But the … Read more
The rain began around 3am and continued throughout the morning, but the cranes didn’t mind it at all. In fact they seemed to hang around the river longer because of it. Spending time with them you begin to pick up physical cues that they are about to depart. A few will do a kind of … Read more
I’ve written in the past about the snowgeese migration in the spring. It is an epic experience to watch (and hear) tens of thousands of them get airborne all at once. The other part about western Missouri that I’ve noticed is the sunsets there can be quite nice. We have witnessed many that provide a … Read more
Spring time means different things to different people but for me, it usually means watching swans at a local marsh. This year there are more there than I’ve ever seen. Several hundred would be my conservative estimate. And to think at one time in the US the species was down to about 70 birds. It … Read more
My wife thought this looked like an ocean wave behind the eagle, but I had to assure her it was indeed taken in Iowa. It would seem rude of me to sneak off to a sunny warm beach just to get a snapshot of an eagle, while she froze back home. River dams and spillways … Read more