Just back from our Caribbean weekend in Barbados. Didn’t take too many pictures — only a few turtles and crabs, but still, didn’t have time to go through them tonight after a late arrival. Instead, I present everyone’s favorite ugly monkey, the proboscis monkey. Locals in Borneo call these guys “Dutchmen” because their bellies and noses are said to resemble those of the Dutch colonizers. Apparently, the Dutch didn’t do too well with the ladies when they first landed in Indonesia. Nikon D300 with Nikkor 200-400mm lens (at 400mm) ISO 1600, f/4 at 1/60th of a second
Some of you know my friend Shardae. She comments a lot on this blog. She also alters my photos from time to time and posts them to her Tumblr blog. Today’s effort I found particularly amusing (posted below). To see more of her “alterations” click this link. All but the puppy were originally posted here.
Another friend of mine, Justin, has a different approach. He koala bombs my photos. What’s a koala bomb, you ask? See the second photo below, and check out many more at this link.
This one is from back in 2008 when I was still living in Detroit and took a drive out west just before moving back to New York. Southwest South Dakota has long been one of my favorite places to shoot. Not only great landscapes, but also lots of wildlife. Prairie dogs are very common, especially in northern sections of Badlands National Park. This particular prairie dog was whistling a warning call to any neighbors close enough to hear. (This will be the last post until next Tuesday as Karen and I are heading to Barbados for a long weekend. It’s not a wildlife trip so not sure I’ll return with anything for the blog, but you never know. Sea turtles are among the locals where we are staying.) Nikon D700 with Nikkor 600mm f/5.6 manual focus lens, ISO 500, f/11 at 1/320th of a second
The sun rises in the Falklands as the activity at a rockhopper penguin colony kicks into high gear. Another day of hopping up and down rocks, swimming, fishing, building nests, eating, mating, squabbling with neighbors and doing all sorts of other penguin-y things. Nikon D800 with Nikkor 17-35mm lens (at 17mm) ISO 200, f/18 at 1/30th of a second
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
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Just back from our Caribbean weekend in Barbados. Didn’t take too many pictures — only a few turtles and crabs, but still, didn’t have time to go through them tonight after a late arrival. Instead, I present everyone’s favorite ugly monkey, the proboscis monkey. Locals in Borneo call these guys “Dutchmen” because their bellies and noses are said to resemble those of the Dutch colonizers. Apparently, the Dutch didn’t do too well with the ladies when they first landed in Indonesia.
