We took a 10-day trip to Namibia, Africa in 2017, besides touring the magnificent sand dunes in the Namib Naukluft National Park and along the Atlantic Coast, we also spent several days visiting Etosha National Park. I took a number of bird pictures and here […]

Birds of Kenya
I took a ten-day Kenya Safari in 2013, a wonderful trip to see all kinds of wildlife in Kenya including Big Five, elephants, lions, leopards, buffalos and rhinoceros, that I have posted here previously, As I recently went through some of the pictures I took […]

Slow Speed Exposure of the Great Falls
I have recently upgraded my Olympus OM-E-M1 Mark II camera to Mark III. One unique feature I like is the built-in Neutral Density feature, up to ND32 (5EV). It allows me to shoot the slow speed exposure under the bright daylight without being over exposure. […]

Wild Horses at Assateague National Seashore Park
We took a side trip to Assateague National Seashore to view and photograph some wild horses (ponies). Here are some pictures I took. “Assateague’s wild horses are well known, even to many people who have never been to the island. The “wild” horses on Assateague […]

Chincoteague Sunrise and Sunset
As our last photo outing of 2022, we spent a couple of days in Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge area on December 28-29. The sunrise and sunset scenes are always beautiful. Sunrise: Sunset:

Happy New Year 2023
I took this sunrise picture at Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge on December 29, 2022, our last photo outing in 2022 Wish you a Happy and Prosperous New Year in 2023!

Bald Eagles at Conowingo Dam, Maryland
I went to Conowingo Dam last week to try my luck of capturing some pictures of bald eagles. The number of bald eagles usually increases a lot in November and December here at Conowingo as the winter approaching in the North. The occasion usually draws […]

Great Smoky Mountains National Park – November 7-8, 2022
We toured the Smoky Mountains Park for two days, primarily visiting Cades Cove and Clingmans Dome that we missed last year due to extreme high wind that forced the Park Service to close these two areas. The fall colors were almost all gone but we […]

Blue Ridge Parkway – November 4-6, 2022
We toured the entire Blue Ridge Parkway from Waynesboro, Virginia to Oconaluftee, North Carolina in three days after tour of Skyline Drive. We had a very good day on the first day and viewed and photographed some nice fall color scenes (whatever was left as […]

Shenandoah National Park – Skyline Drive (11/3/2022)
We took a week-long trip to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park via Skyline Drive of Shenandoah National Park and Blue Ridge Parkway last week. Skyline Drive still had lots of beautiful autumn colors – we spent whole day driving from Front Royal, the Northern […]

Covered Bridges in Frederick County, Maryland
We have visited all three covered bridges, namely, Utica, Loys Station and Roddy Road, in Frederick County previously. The best time to visit is in the fall when the surrounded trees turn the colors. We took a leisure drive two days ago to enjoy the […]