Day 7 (part 1) – Ka’ena Point – Albatross and Monk Seals
Today was a very exciting day, and the posts will be split into two – one focusing on Ke’ana Point and the wildilfe there, and the second on a great afternoon and sunset on O’ahu’s North Shore. Ka’ena Point is the western tip of O’ahu, and is protected as a State Park. We came from [...]
Day 5 (part 1)- Birds of Volcanoes NP
Day 5 started early as I decided to do some bird photography at a few locations in Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park before heading out for the Kona Coast. (I’ll split today’s posts into two, one for the birds and one for Kona Coast shots). At first light I hiked the trails at Kipuka Puaulu (aka [...]
Day 3 – Bird Photography with Jack Jeffrey
A very exciting day indeed! Today I had the pleasure of shooting with Jack Jeffrey, one of Hawai’i’s premier nature and wildlife photographers and an all around great guy. We visited two sites, starting at the high elevation dry forests on the slope of Mauna Kea to look for Palila, a highly endangered endemic honeycreeper [...]
Winter Backyard Birding
This winter I’ve been having a lot of fun photographing birds right in my own backyard. With natural sources of food hard to come by, the activity at my bird feeders picks up dramatically on cold and stormy days, with literally hundreds of birds representing upwards of twenty species coming through the various feeders throughout [...]