In early April I drove up to San Simeon to view and photograph the elephant seals.  The colony is referred to as the Piedras Blanca colony and they are one of the places that has a facility for individuals to watch them.  Overall it was a good trip and I had a good time watching them.  I will need to return to be able to seethe large males with their huge proboscis as they are currently at rehabilitating themselves after being n the beach for many months for the breeding season.
As there are lots of photographs from this location I experimented to see if I could give one the sense of place for these seals.  These females and juveniles spent lots of time just napping on the beach.

Hope you enjoyed the photo,

Scott

Red-eyed tree frog has to be one of the most “unreal” looking frog that I have ever seen.  Just think green, red, blue. orange and yellow are all present on this frog.  The species has to be one of the most charismatic frog and for many this frog is the symbol of the rain forest and Costa Rica.

I photographed this frog under very controlled conditions and I really like the pose.

I hope you enjoyed the photo,

Scott

One of my favorite groups of animals to watch and photograph is frogs and other amphibians.  I took advantage of another photographer organizing a photoshoot with a large variety of these small frogs.  I really like this one as it seems to have several possible stories, to me it looks like this small frog may be having a bad day but is persistent and hangs in for the future.

I hope you enjoyed the photo,

Scott

I traveled to Alaska recently as noted in yesterday’s blog post.  One of the interesting things about this large gathering of bald eagles is that they displace each other.  One eagle will be feeding on a salmon and another eagle will fly by and “attack” the feeding eagle.  Some times the eagle the new arrival will start feeding on the salmon while other times the feeding eagle fend off the new arrival.  These was a fair amount of drama on the river!

This eagle had just displaced another eagle and I like the way his talons are in motion grabbing the salmon.

Bald Eagle feeding on a salmon

I hope you liked the image!

Scott

I traveled to Haines,  Alaska about a week ago to photograph Bald Eagles.  A large gathering of eagles occurs a long the Chilkat River every year and this gathering has about 3500 to 4000 eagles in the area.  This river has one of the last salmon runs of the year and a portion of the river freezes very slowly each year allowing for open water and fish for the eagles to eat.

The trip was a good one with the photography getting better each and every day.  Monday was probably the darkest of the days with very overcast skies and some snow.  This portrait of a bald eagle was one of the first photos I took on this trip.

Bald Eagle perched over the Chilkat River

I’ll be sharing more of images from this trip over the next month or so.  I hope you enjoyed the photo!

Scott