Some animals get a lot of descriptors in their name. This is one of them — the blue-eyed anglehead lizard. Apparently the mature males develop brilliant blue eyes as they get older. This one must be a female or young male. Either way, a cool sighting while I was hiking on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia. Nikon D700 with Nikkor 70-200mm lens (at 200mm) ISO 1600, f/2.8 at 1/50th of a second.
I’ve been after a beaver-out-of-water shot where you can clearly see the tail for quite a while now. I kind of got there last Friday when I visited a nearby pond and had a few seconds with this guy as he performed some quick maintenance on the side of his lodge. A tangle of twigs made it difficult, but you can see the characteristic tail falling off to the side. Nikon Z8 with Nikkor 500mm PF lens, ISO 5600, f/5.6 at 1/160th of a second.
First day in the Masai Mara back in June, we came across this male lion in the rain, up on a small hill, surveying his environment. Nikon D850 with Nikkor 70-200mm lens (at 116mm) ISO 900, f/2.8 at 1/640th of a second.
I have so many raccoon shots from my camera trap but rarely post them. Here’s one of the backyard locals from May of 2021 when they were a bit more active. Nikon D810 with Nikkor 17-35mm lens (at 17mm) ISO 500, f/14 at 1/160th of a second, Cognisys camera box, trail monitor and remote flash units.
It’s always hard to show perspective when posting dik dik’s. They’re so small, but without any reference it’s hard to tell just how small they really are. Same goes with this image, but for some reason, perhaps the angle, this Kirk’s dik dik kind of gets close to illustrating their diminutive fifteen-inch height. Photographed in Samburu National Reserve in northern Kenya. Nikon Z8 with Nikkor 500mm PF lens, ISO 250, f/5.6 at 1/1600th of a second.
Baby stump-tailed macaques can look like infants and senior citizens at the same time. This little guy was hanging out with a few friends just outside of Kaeng Krachan National Park on the Malay Peninsula of Thailand. Nikon D810 with Nikkor 70-200mm lens (at 200mm), ISO 1600, f/4 at 1/800th of a second.
On the African savanna you find your fun wherever you can. In this case, two cheetah cubs found it in the form of elephant dung. A good time was had by all. Photographed in Samburu National Reserve in Kenya. Nikon Z8 with Nikkor 500mm lens, ISO 450, f/5.6 at 1/800th of a second.
Like most people in the northeast, we got dumped on with snow last night. I haven’t been to the woods to check on my camera traps yet, but here’s one from the last time we had snow (and it wasn’t that much). A cottontail stopping by for a self-portrait back in late March. Oddly, I see rabbits in the yard most every night, but they very rarely show up at the traps. Nikon D810 with Nikkor 20mm lens, ISO 500, f/14 at 1/250th of a second, Cognisys camera box, trail monitor and remote flash units.
Dwarf mongooses are a fairly common sight around safari camps. A bunch of them were scurrying around in the woods surrounding our camp in the Masai Mara of Kenya on our recent trip. On the technical side of things, this is a good example of a very high ISO image (12800) that has minimal noise thanks to an even and proper exposure. If I had shot at a lower ISO and then tried to lighten it in post processing, it would have had a lot more noise. Nikon Z8 with Nikkor 500mm PF lens, ISO 12800, f/5.6 at 1/320th of a second.
I’ve never posted this before (mainly because I find it to be just an average shot of a lemur — I should have gotten all the way onto the ground and positioned myself for a cleaner background). That said, it’s the shot that would later become the silhouetted ring-tailed lemur icon in my logo. I was scrolling through my old files and came across it and thought I’d share it now. I think it was about eight years ago when I first started using it in my logo, but it was taken back in 2007 in southern Madagascar. Nikon D200 with Nikkor 80-200mm lens (at 200mm) ISO 100, f/3.5 at 1/1250th of a second.