Tag: 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.

It’s the time of the year for Top 10 lists, looks back, and those annual clips shows. We’re no different, we like to look back on all the awesome people we’ve talked to and recount some of our favorite moments on The Schtick.

Richard Louv’s biography ends like this: he would rather fish than write. But between “Richard Louv is…” and “…rather fish than write,” is the story of a man who has written eight books and coined the term “Nature Deficit Disorder.” The book that kicked off an international conversation about the relationship with children and nature is entitled Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder. His latest book, The Nature Principle: Human Restoration and the End of Nature-Deficit Disorder offers a new vision of the future, in which our lives are as immersed in nature as they are in technology.

Latest cover image on Washigton-Oregon Game & Fish. A nice mule deer buck shot against an evening blue sky.

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.

Mature bull elk photographed in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.  Canon 5D Mark II – Canon 500mm F4 IS lens – Gitzo Tripod and Sachtler video head.  No the lens wasn’t dirty…it’s actually a light snow falling on this late September day.

Bull Elk – Rocky Mountain National Park There are four weeks I look forward to each year, roughly from the middle of September to the middle of October.  As the temperatures become cooler and daylight decreases, the season signals the elk to initiate their annual breeding cycle (aka the rut) and elk photography is absolutely [...]

Every year I look forward to May and early June. A time when the Colorado comes alive again…the brown of winter gives way to the green of spring. From the urban greenbelts near my studio in west metro Denver to Rocky Mountain National Park baby wildlife can be found just about everywhere. One of my favorite places is a fairly large green belt about 4 miles away where I am almost guarenteed to find baby foxes. The area is frequented by joggers, walkers, bikers, and birdwatchers which have made the foxes fairly accustomed to people so getting close enough with my 500mm lens is fairly easy.
Just so you know I never approach the fox dens directly and I always try to maintain a twenty to forty yard buffer so that the foxes still have a comfort zone and act natural. From this distance I’m always treated to some pretty exciting antics as the young foxes run around testing and learning their much needed life skills. Some of my other favorite spring subjects include mule deer and whitetail deer fawns, calf elk, ducklings and goslings and baby avocets to mention a few.