A rare appearance of a male painted bunting at the Maryland side of the Great Falls last month (4 January, 2021) has caused lots of excitement for bird watchers and bird photographers in the area. This little colorful and beautiful creature is regarded as the […]
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Backyard Birds
I have a bird feeder on the deck. During this Corvid pandemic it gave me opportunities to shoot some birds visiting the feeder. Patience is the key to get some nice and sometimes cute pictures.

Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge
We visited Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) in Cambridge, Maryland last week. We drove around the Refuge just to see if anything interesting to see photograph. We saw a few bald eagles perching on the tree branch but an unusual one on the chimney of […]

Snow Geese at Prime Hook NWR, Delaware
After photographing the wild ponies at Assateague National Seashore last Sunday, we decided to take another detour to Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge in Delaware to try our luck in seeing and photographing snow geese that usually migrated to the wetlands in the Eastern Shores […]

Wild Ponies at Assateague National Seashore
We took a detour to Assateague National Seashore after visiting Chincoteague NWR last Sunday. We were lucky to encounter many wild horses (ponies) in the park.

Ready, Set, Take Off
I was glad to capture a bald eagle taking off yesterday. Here were the sequential shots:

Cedar Waxwing
While walking along C&O Canal Tow Path the other day, I noticed there was a flock of birds having a feast of red berries on the shrubs along the Canal. As I moved closer to take some pictures they all flew away but I did […]

Sequential Shots of Bald Eagle in Action
These are the sequential shots of how a bald eagle snapping a fish out of the water. It’s a challenge to watch the bald eagle flying over the river and dive all the sudden to catch the fish out of the water and fly away.

Cormorant’s Big Catch
While watching for bald eagles in the sky I could not help noticing the big catch by this cormorant in the water in front of me. Wow, that was a huge fish, no wonder it took about 15-20 minutes to swallow it. It’s a big […]

Bald Eagles at Conowingo Dam – 2020.11.9.
More and more bald eagles are gathering at Conowingo Dam this month. It took a 2-hour drive for me to get there yesterday morning and I was pleasantly surprised to see and capture many images of bald eagles in action. There were also many of […]

Street Photography in Kenya – 2013
Recently I posted my series of “street photography” for seven countries I visited in the last decade, namely, China, Vietnam, Morocco, Peru, Myanmar, Turkey and Namibia. Somehow I forgot about Kenya where we took a safari trip in 2013, primarily we only visited the city […]