No animals in this one, just a simple country road in Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee. This was early in the morning in a part of the park called Cade’s Cove, an area of open fields that provide one of the best places in the country to view black bears in the wild.
It’s somewhat unusual to catch hippos out of the water. I was in a boat when I saw this mother and baby behind a flock of cormorants in Queen Elizabeth National Park in Uganda.
Another beetle that I have no idea how to identify. This one was taken at a place called Tangkahan in Sumatra, Indonesia early one morning before the sun was up. If you look close, you can see a baby riding on the mother’s back (at least I assume that’s a baby).
I photographed this coati at my favorite spot in Costa Rica — Tiskita Lodge in the town of Pavones, which is located on the Pacific coast by the Panama border. This guy was sneaking into the fruit orchards of Tiskita looking for some lunch. Coatis are members of the raccoon family and are sometimes even referred to as hog-nosed raccoons. They are quite widespread, ranging from the southwestern US all the way to northern Argentina, and have adapted to many different habitat types.
This is a black and white ruffed lemur. This species was probably the most mischievous of all the lemurs I saw in Madagascar. On several occasions, I witnessed one of these guys moving in for a sneak attack on another species. This photo was taken on an island for rescued lemurs (appropriatey named Lemur Island) near the town of Perinet.
Yet another from Tangkoko National Park in Sulawesi, Indonesia. I went with a wide angle for this one to capture the forest environment where these monkeys live — and in this case, rest.
Badlands National Park in South Dakota is one of my favorite places in the US. There’s plenty of wildlife, and also great landscape opportunities pretty much everywhere in the park. This photo was taken late one afternoon just before a rainstorm. The desert sunflowers were in bloom and everywhere along the roadside.
This little red-bellied lemur was very curious and allowed me to get close with a wide angle lens. I was in the town of Tamatave at a zoological park called Ivoloina. In addition to housing captive lemurs, Ivoloina is home to several species of free ranging lemurs that come and go as they please (including the red-bellied).
Flinders Ranges National Park is where the mountains meet the Outback in South Australia. Very rugged and remote country. It also happened to be full of kangaroos. I waited a while for this one, hoping that it would take off in the direction it did and give me a good silhouette shot with the moon.
As anyone who has been to Bosque Del Apache in New Mexico knows, getting shots of sandhill cranes isn’t difficult. With so many cranes, it’s easy to experiment with different exposures/shutter speeds, angles, etc. What I was trying to do with this particular photo was to use a slower shutter speed to capture the blurred movement of the bird in flight.