This site is dedicated to wildlife and landscape photography.
This site is dedicated to wildlife and landscape photography.
This is a good time to be in Yellowstone to see bear cubs. While I enjoy photographing all cubs, the spring cubs, also known as cubs of the year, or “COYs,” are the cutest. Spring cubs are tiny. How tiny? I think of them as footballs with legs.
I do a lot of wildlife photography from my car using a heavy Canon super-telephoto lens as my main lens. A few months ago I read about a new type of window mount that is very light and inexpensive, so I ordered one. It’s called a Puffin Pad. Together with my Kirk Window Mount and my BLUBB bean bag I now have three window mounts. I use the term “window mount” loosely here. The Kirk is the only one of the three that “mounts” to the window, but I couldn’t think of a better term to cover all three. In any event, I’ve used all three now and I want to pass along my thoughts on them to those who may be contemplating the purchase of a window mount.
I have attached all three of them to the driver’s side window area of my 2011 Subaru Outback. From left they are: (1) the BLUBB bean bag, (2) the Kirk Window Mount (which requires a separate tripod head) and (3) the Puffin Pad. By the way, when I mounted the Kirk I just lowered it onto the top of the window without trying to level it. It can be mounted so it’s parallel to the ground on a sloping window. Note the slope of the Outback’s window along almost its entire length and where it disappears into the door. (more…)
I haven’t gotten any good photos of bobcats lately. They’ve given up their crepuscular ways and they’ve gone back to being nocturnal. This photo was taken in February. This particular guy was my favorite this past winter. He has a very pronounced chin. I had a house cat with a chin like his. It was diagnosed as feline acne, treated and it cleared up. I wonder if bobcats get feline acne.
On another note, I’m working on a review of window mounts. I hope to have that done in the next day or so. Included in that review will be the new Puffin Pad.
This is one of two calves I photographed a couple of days ago in the elk preserve. The other was much smaller (and younger). It was also noticeably darker.
This buck was grazing in a rancher’s field. H e must have liked what he was eating given how stuffed his cheeks are.
Pardon the hyperbole, but if a cow can jump over the moon why not a coyote? This photo was taken last winter. I’ve never seen a coyote jump this high while mousing (or doing anything else). This is the coyote I’ve covered before, including the day before yesterday, with the injured right foreleg. It looks swollen at the wrist. Nevertheless, he landed front feet first.
This coyote has a swollen area under his left eye. This is the same coyote I’ve posted photos of before. He had an injury to his right foreleg which caused him to limp last winter, but that seems to have healed. As an old friend of mine is fond of saying: “Life is tough.”
