Category: Wildlife

On Jan. 7, 2012 I setup a trailcam on private property in the foothills just West of Denver.

Every year Wayne Lewis, Editor/Art Director of the Colorado Outdoors Magazine produces a photo issue highlighting really neat images of wildlife in Colorado. The issue came out and I was fortunate enough to have several images published. Here are a couple quick iPhone snapshots of the magazine. In the first image of the magazine I shot the full page whitetail deer and the 1/4 page mountain goat looking into the spotting scope. In the second image of the magazine I shot the sunrise mule deer image. Great magazine if you would like to subscribe click here.

A years worth of trail camera pictures compiled into a 4-5 minute video…pretty cool. I grew up in a small town in Southwestern Colorado and my folks have a little bit of land so I thought it would be neat to see what we could get in a year on their property. I did quite a bit of research on several fronts before I started the project. First, I had to find a camera that would best fit the job.

In March of 2010, Dirk Ruge and myself traveled to Tanzania, Africa to research locations and accommodations for our new Tanzanian wildlife and culture DSLR workshop. The trip proved to be extremely successful for research and “OK” for picture/video acquisition. Since we want to take the workshop participants to the best locations with the best [...]

Sometimes, something strikes you as too good to be true and this was one of those instances. Looking at the photo in question at the time of it’s winning, I questioned if the story was as reported. Now, I know. Read this article and judge for yourself.

A couple of months ago I was in my hometown of Mancos, Colorado shooting with my nephew Kolton Miller and we had some great luck with Mountain Bluebirds despite the extremely cold temperatures. Kolton had just gotten a new Canon 300 f4 IS lens to go with his 1D Mark II and he was itching [...]

Do iguanas really exist in the wild in Colorado?  Not exactly…but we do have a very colorful lizard called the Collared Lizard and they can be found thoughout much of the high deserts near the four corners region.  Canon 1D Mark II and 500mm f4 lens – ISO 250 – 1/1000 sec – f9 – [...]

I came up to Rocky Mountain National Park hoping to photograph elk and bighorn sheep…I didn’t find any bighorn sheep. But as you can see I did find this really nice bull and he was eating out of a bird feeder right in front of the cabin that I had rented. I shot quite a [...]