There wasn’t much light left when I came across this troop of African bush elephants in Samburu, Kenya. The Samburu elephants are considerably more red and less gray than their counterparts elsewhere in Africa. But that’s only because of the red dirt in the area that they spend all day tossing over their bodies. When the light is low, the effect is that they seem to glow. Nikon D850 with Nikkor 70-200mm lens (at 70mm with graduated neutral density filter) ISO 800, f/4 at 1/125th of a second.
It was pretty early in the morning when I first saw this white-handed gibbon in Kaeng Krachan National Park in Thailand. She stuck around for awhile and eventually there was enough light to get some decent photos. Nikon D500 with Nikkor 200-400mm lens (at 200mm) ISO 1600, f/4 at 1/200th of a second.
Like black bears, brown bears can vary in color. This young male had a lighter coat than any of the other bears we saw at Lake Clark — more of a blondish brown. He was doing a bit of a dance as we drove past on our way back to the lodge. Nikon D500 with Nikkor 200-400mm lens (at 200mm) ISO 800, f/4 at 1/1000th of a second.
Haven’t seen a single fox in my area of Connecticut this summer. At least not yet. But here’s one hunting for voles along the treeline in Lake Clark National Park in Alaska that I photographed a few years ago. Nikon D500 with Nikkor 200-400mm lens (at 250mm) ISO 800, f/4 at 1/640th of a second.
I believe this guy to be of the species Heteragrion erythrogaster — a flatwing damselfly. He/she was being very cooperative, so I used a tripod with a very slow shutter speed of nine seconds. Photographed by the side of a waterfall in the town of Pavones in southwestern Costa Rica. Nikon D200 with Nikkor 70-200mm lens (at 200mm with Canon 500D close up filter) ISO 100, f/22 at 9 seconds.
Just a simple shot of a wombat doing what wombats do — eating grass. For the most part, wombats are pretty accommodating subjects, but sometimes you have to be patient to wait for them to lift their faces off the ground. Nikon D810 with Nikkor 200-400mm lens (at 350mm) ISO 800, f/4 at 1/125th of a second.
The Indian roller looks a lot like the lilac-breasted roller that occurs in Africa. The Indian roller, of course, occurs in India (as well as other parts of Asia and the Middle East). I saw this one in Bandhavgarh National Park while searching for tigers on my central India tour a few years back. Nikon D300 with Nikkor 200-400mm lens (at 400mm) ISO 800, f/4 at 1/2000th of a second.
I had the pleasure of hanging out with quite a few Celebes crested macaques on my visit to Sulawesi, Indonesia back in 2009. They have very little fear of humans, which in part contributes to their conservation status as critically endangered. I saw them in Tangkoko National Park, the only place they are protected. And even within the park, that protection isn’t always guaranteed. In addition to the continued loss of their habitat, they are easily caught due to their trusting nature and unfortunately locals consider their meat a delicacy. Here’s hoping they’ll still be around if I’m ever to make a return trip. Nikon D300 with Nikkor 200-400mm lens (at 200mm) ISO 800, f/4.5 at 1/160th of a second.
I was getting an interesting mix of fog and late day sun on this particular visit to Point Reyes National Seashore in California. The perfect time to go wide and capture more of the landscape. That’s a male tule elk lit up by the sun. Tule elk are the smallest subspecies of elk. A small population of them live at Point Reyes just north of San Francisco. Nikon D300 with Nikkor 200-400mm lens (at 280mm) ISO 400, f/4 at 1/320th of a second.
I photographed many elephant seals over the past fifteen years or so, both the southern and northern species. This bull, a northern elephant seal, was one of the first I captured. It was a glorious morning in Año Nuevo State Park in California and being early in the season, this guy had the beach to himself. Of course, that meant no females around to impress yet either. In another few weeks the beach would be full of seals, fighting for territorial and mating rights. Nikon D700 with Nikkor 70-200mm lens (at 75mm) ISO 800, f/5.6 at 1/1600th of a second.
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There wasn’t much light left when I came across this troop of African bush elephants in Samburu, Kenya. The Samburu elephants are considerably more red and less gray than their counterparts elsewhere in Africa. But that’s only because of the red dirt in the area that they spend all day tossing over their bodies. When the light is low, the effect is that they seem to glow. Nikon D850 with Nikkor 70-200mm lens (at 70mm with graduated neutral density filter) ISO 800, f/4 at 1/125th of a second. 
