The white footed sportive lemur is just one of the many species of lemur in Madagascar that are nocturnal. Like all lemurs, they are endangered. In the case of the white footed sportive lemurs, habitat loss due to agriculture and charcoal production are the main problems. Fun fact about these lemurs — they are coprophagous, meaning that they consume and reediest their own feces to help breakdown the cellulose in their food (their diet consists almost entirely of leaves). Nikon D200 with Nikkor 80-200mm lens (at 185mm) ISO 200, f/4.5 at 1/60th of a second, two Nikon SB-800 flash units
In honor of the return of Game of Thrones (and Khaleesi’s dragons) this weekend, I offer up this slightly less menacing beast — a Boyd’s forest dragon. These guys live in the rainforests of Queensland, Australia. They are sit-and-wait predators, preferring to remain motionless until an unsuspecting insect wanders by. Nikon D200 with Nikkor 80-200mm lens (at 175mm) ISO 100, f/5 at .7 of a second
This is a pademelon — the smallest of the macropods. Macropods, of course, are all the kangaroo-like mammals in Australia, including wallabies, tree kangaroos and the regular old kangaroo kangaroos. A full grown pademelon stands just about two feet tall. Nikon D200 with Nikkor 600mm f/5.6 manual focus lens, ISO 200, f/5.6 at 1/40th of a second
Some of you might remember a close up photo of this guy that I posted several years ago. For this shot, I backed up a bit to show the flowers that the juvenile Madagascar reed frog was hiding in. When little (and I mean little — this frog was less than an inch in length) Madagascar reed frogs are completely yellow, but as they age, their backs turns light blue. Nikon D200 with Nikkor 80-200mm lens (at 86mm) ISO 100, f/22 at 1/60th of a second, two Nikon SB-800 flash units
Here’s another in my gentoo sunburst series that I took on Sea Lion Island in the Falklands. These gentoo penguins had just come in from their afternoon swim and were taking a break at the top of the beach just as the sun was setting. I was able to get low to record the sun as a starburst on the horizon. I dialed in enough exposure compensation so that there was some detail in the penguins and it wasn’t a complete silhouette. A tiny aperture helped with the sunburst effect. Nikon D800 with Nikkor 200-400mm lens at 220mm, f/32 at 1/400th of a second
Last week I posted a landscape shot from Mount Rainier in late summer when the high alpine wildflowers were still in peak bloom. Here’s a tighter shot from that same trip of a red fox in amongst the flowers. It was getting pretty dark by the time I took this photo (well past sunset). I used a very slow shutter speed when the fox stopped moving for a few seconds. Nikon D300 with Nikkor 200-400mm lens (at 400mm) ISO 800, f/4 at 1/15th of a second
The red howler is a subspecies of howler monkey found only in Bolivia. I photographed this one from a canoe on Lake Chalalan in Madidi National Park in the Bolivian Amazon.
Nikon D700 with Nikkor 200-400mm lens (at 400mm) ISO 1600, f/4 at 1/320th of a second
As many of you know, my day job is as a creative director for a New York advertising agency. One of my accounts is the National Park Service. Today is the launch of our new campaign “Find Your Park,” which will help to redefine what a Park can be — not only places of unspoiled natural beauty where furry beasts like to roam, but also places of historical significance, places of recreation, places of remembrance and more. I, of course, prefer the unspoiled-natural-beauty parks. One of my favorites being Mount Rainier in Washington state. If interested you can watch a commercial that sums up the campaign at this link (you might recognize some of the photos from previous posts to this blog). Or you can check out the campaign website at findyourpark.com.
Nikon D700 with Nikkor 17-35mm lens (at 19mm) ISO 200, f/18 at 1/25th of a second
Tussock grass fringes many of the islands in the Falklands. You can see it here in the background behind these two young elephant seals. It can grow to well over six feet tall. Walking through clumps of it can be like walking through a maze — and you never know where a 20 foot long, 9000 pound elephant seal might be hiding. The two seals pictured here are adolescents that were play fighting at low tide on Sea Lion Island. Nikon D800 with Nikkor 200-400mm lens (at 200mm) ISO 800, f/4 at 1/2500th of a second
I was on a boat, floating down a river at night, when I met this double-eyed fig parrot in Daintree National Park in Queensland, Australia. This is one of those birds that gets quite a few names. In addition to double-eyed fig parrot, they also go by blue-faced fig parrot, red-faced fig parrot, dwarf fig parrot, and two-eyed fig parrot. Unlike most other parrots which use existing tree-cavities to nest in, double-eyed fig parrots excavate their own, usually in rotting trees. Nikon D200 with Nikkor 80-200mm lens (at 200mm) ISO 200, f/2.8 at 1/60th of a second, two Nikon SB-800 flash units
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The white footed sportive lemur is just one of the many species of lemur in Madagascar that are nocturnal. Like all lemurs, they are endangered. In the case of the white footed sportive lemurs, habitat loss due to agriculture and charcoal production are the main problems. Fun fact about these lemurs — they are coprophagous, meaning that they consume and reediest their own feces to help breakdown the cellulose in their food (their diet consists almost entirely of leaves).
