The more we care about the subjects we photograph, the better our images.

One thing you will see below, sometimes but not all the time, I will treat a wild animal, or a flower, the same way I do a landscape. I mean by that, I will often but not always, shoot pictures of birds and such, in the first or last moments of the day with a golden or reddish cast. I of course would also make many wildlife and other images in simple overcast, or sunny blue sky days, as to be able to sell them for field guides and other such places so viewers will know the natural coloration of the subject.

I view wildlife and most other subjects, as a form of art and if the light is natural, and beautiful too, I go for it.
Cormorant at sunrise

Pronghorns in the afternoon light

A bit more “normal” with a Snowy Owl.

Great-blue Heron Rookery

Wild Rabbit

Wood Ducks

Bighorn Ram, and early light

All talk and all beak.

Below, allow me to share with you, two of nature photography’s finest, the late/great Galen Rowell with the first two which are landscapes, followed by legendary Art Wolfe. With a Grizzly Bear coming at us.

Outside of photography have changed much of what I do and/or how I do it in recent years. Those changes came naturally and I thank God for that.

With that said, I am as human as the next fellow.

My music tastes over the years have accumulated to carry many types.

Rock, especially hard rock was once my favorite. Bit by bit, day by day, country music came in with it’s cousin folk, joining in.

Then came the blues, The real blues. John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters were among my favorites.

When some of my pals (while I was single or separated.) wanted to go out for a night of music, I was set for anything, but the blues was always one step away.

The blues of the singers I liked, was at times unsettling, or even satanic and evil.

I left all of that accept some old rock, country, and some “pop” music such as what you hear in old movies.

I write this only because, once we make an honest commitment to what we believe, there is or should be, a true attempt to live up to what we have accepted.

Finally, I want to shout out a hearty thank you to all of you who are and have been reading this blog! Without you, I might as well just print out a piece of paper and read myself to sleep.

It has been many years now and for sure, my subject matter beyond photos, has gone up and own, from left to right, and sometimes inside and out.

I especially appreciate my old photography buddy Ron for hanging in there.

Good friends are hard to find, and many of the subjects I write about, or in many ways preach about, are shared in sort of a “take no prisoners” sort of fashion. They are not meant to demean what others believe, but they are to me, a life or death subject.

May God Bless,
Wayne