This photo is from our trip to Uganda last June. A mountain gorilla getting tired, but still reaching out for more leaves to eat. Their diet consists of about 38 different species of plant — mostly Galium, thistles, celery and nettles across their mountain habitat in Uganda, Rwanda and the Congo. Nikon Z8 with Nikkor 24-70mm lens (at 55mm) ISO 1600, f/2.8 at 1/320th of a second.
I started the year with a trip to northern Minnesota and got a few good looks at a northern hawk owl.
In February, I was featured on a follow-up story on Fox 61 News.
In March, I ran into a few regulars down in Florida, including a burrowing owl…
And a great blue heron with breakfast.
In April, I traveled to Peru for the second time in two years to see what I could find in the northern Amazon basin. I certainly wasn’t expecting a dark morph of a southern tamandua.
I also got great looks at sloths, including this rather hungry three-toed sloth.
On my trip to Peru in 2022, I missed out on the Uakari poison frog, but I found him this time.
I also finally found Mowgli, a rather friendly woolly monkey.
Back home in June, I found a few suburban beaver dams near my house.
And was honored to have my image of a leatherback hatchling on the cover of National Wildlife magazine’s summer issue.
We led another tour to Africa in late June/early July where I captured these rhinos on day one in Kenya.
Toward the end of the trip, it was back to Uganda for mountain gorillas, including this playful two-year old.
My camera trap continued to record all the backyard action, and in November captured this young black bear out for a stroll in the middle of the day.
Here’s to another great year in 2024.
This silverback mountain gorilla was taking an afternoon nap in the ferns of Mgahinga National Park in the Virunga Mountains of Uganda. Nikon Z8 with Nikkor 70-200mm lens, ISO 2800, f/2.8 at 1/250th of a second.
Silverback mountain gorillas weigh in excess of 400 pounds. They eat about forty pounds of leaves, stems, shoots and fruits a day. This silverback was taking a break from all that eating and just hanging back, relaxing, and watching the rest of the family go about their business. He is one of three silverbacks in a family of ten that roam the base of Gahinga Volcano in the southwestern corner of Uganda. Nikon Z8 with Nikkor 70-200mm lens (at 150mm) ISO 3600, f/2.8 at 1/640th of a second.
A little something different today. Not only because it lacks wildlife, but also because I took it with my iPhone. This was the last day of our trip to Kenya and Uganda. We were leaving our lodge at Lake Mutanda and heading back to Rwanda and onward to Nairobi and then New York. I had packed my cameras away, but pulled the iPhone out now and again to grab shots from the open window as we drove. This is one of those shots, a bit more mid-day than I like for what is essentially a landscape, but I thought it caught the essence and grandeur of Lake Mutanda and its setting in the volcanic Virunga Mountains of Uganda. iPhone, ISO 32, f/1.6 at 1/2300th of a second.
As much as I love being out on game drives while on safari, I also look forward to the downtime when I’m free to walk around camp searching for birds and other creatures that happen to be passing through. This bronzy sunbird was outside our room on Lake Mutanda in Uganda. Nikon Z8 with Nikkor 500mm lens, ISO 10,000, f/5.6 at 1/500th of a second.
This little guy had something on his mind. At just two years old, like his human cousins, he is still a toddler. We had a great time watching him roll around in the grass and crawl over his older siblings and the adults in the family of ten mountain gorillas. Nikon Z8 with Nikkor 70-200mm lens (at 140mm) ISO 3200, f/2.8 at 1/250th of a second.
Karen and I head to Corsica tomorrow for a week. Won’t be a wildlife trip, but who knows what we’ll find while out exploring the island. Until then enjoy this contemplative mountain gorilla. He knows something. I don’t know what he knows, but something’s going on in that head of his. Photographed last month in Magahinga National Park in Uganda. Nikon Z8 with Nikkor 70-200mm lens (at 90mm) ISO 1250, f/2.8 at 1/250th of a second.
I rarely post people photos these days, but a client favorite of the Kenya/Uganda tour that my wife and I lead is always our village visit to Kisoro in Uganda. Of the many shots of the local kids that I captured, I liked this one of the little girl’s eye finding the camera. Nikon Z8 with Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 lens, ISO 450, f/2.8 at 1/500th of a second.
I visited the Nyakagezi gorilla family back in 2020. Since that visit, there has been a new addition to the family. It was great to get back and see the familiar faces and this new one — quite an animated little guy. Nikon Z8 with Nikkor 70-200mm lens (at 190mm) ISO 2200, f/2.8 at 1/320th of a second.