This image is from a series of bobcat photos I took a few years back in Irvine, California. I was able to get down on the ground, enabling me to blur out the background and isolate the bobcat against the colorful, early morning foliage.
Nikon D300 with Nikkor 200-400mm lens (at 400mm) ISO 1600, f/4 at 1/640th of a second

My wife likes the deer. It’s her birthday today so… she gets a deer. Better yet, a baby deer. I was photographing a moose in Baxter State Park in Maine when I looked to my right and saw this little white-tailed fawn curled up in the bushes. I’m sure the mother must have been nearby but wary of my presence, so I took a few quick pictures and moved on in the other direction.
Nikon D700 with Nikkor 17-35mm lens (at 30mm) ISO 800, f/5 at 1/320th of a second

It’s getting to be that time of year again that Atlantic puffins return to their nesting sites along the Maine coast. I photographed this one a while back on Machias Seal Island.
Nikon D300 with Nikkor 200-400mm lens (at 400mm) ISO 400, f/4 at 1/5000th of a second

Plenty still to share from Patagonia, but thought I’d start mixing in images from other locations. This brown bear cub was keeping a watchful eye on mom as she was busy fishing for breakfast. From my trip last September to Lake Clark National Park in Alaska.
Nikon D500 with Nikkor 200-400m lens (at 200mm) ISO 1600, f/4 at 1/500th of a second

This is probably the most common North American tree frog. It can come in many colors depending on location — like chameleons, they have the ability to change depending on their environment (although not quite as spectacularly). As the name implies, they can appear anywhere on the gray to green spectrum. They are predominately found in southern Canada and the US states east of the Mississippi, although I spotted this one just west near the town of Waterloo, Iowa.
Nikon D700 with Nikkor 70-200mm lens (at 200mm) with Canon 500D close up filter, ISO 160, f/16 at 1/60th of a second, two Nikon SB-800 flash units

Time for the yearly rabbit post. This time a young cottontail, photographed on a hike one morning in the hills above Malibu, California. Hope everyone had a great day.
Nikon D800 with Nikkor 200-400mm lens (at 400mm) ISO 800, f/4 at 1/1250th of a second

Pronghorn and bison often share the same habitat, but they don’t really mingle the way that different hoofed species do in Africa. These two were scoping each other out for a moment before going back to doing what they do.
Nikon D700 with Nikkor 70-200mm lens (at 200mm) ISO 1600, f/2.8 at 1/200th of a second

Always nice to get the animals in their environment. In this shot of a bull moose, I liked the splash of yellow from the aspen and the bit of red on the ground beneath the moose. This was from my trip in September to Alaska, just outside of Anchorage in Chugach State Park. If you look close, you can also see that the moose is licking his nose (as he goes after the cow that was just ahead of him in the bushes).
Nikon D810 with Nikkor 70-200mm lens (at 105mm) ISO 800, f/4 at 1/1000th of a second

Always nice to get a few very different creatures in one shot. This prairie dog has to be careful out there with all those bison. Both share the land in Badlands National Park in South Dakota. I used a very small aperture to bring the bison as much into focus as I could.
Nikon D800 with Nikkor 200-400mm lens (at 340mm) ISO 800, f/20 at 1/40th of a second

A male and female pronghorn trot across a grassy field in Wind Cave National Park in the Black Hills of South Dakota. The male has the nice set of horns. Pronghorn are unique in that they shed their horns each year (usually horns are not shed, whereas antlers are). Moose, elk, deer all have antlers whereas pronghorn, bighorn, mountain goats have horns.
Nikon D800 with Nikkor 200-400mm lens (at 340mm) ISO 400, f/4 at 1/1250th of a second