Hi y'all,

This is a work in progress and will be continually updated. This will be the place where info on how-to and what with for wildlife and nature photography will be gathered.

For starters here's a list of web sites that I feel are a treasure trove of information and inspiration on nature and wildlife photography.

Fabs Forns is my favorite wildlife photographer and her site Avianscapes.com should not be missed.

Birdphotgraphers.net has great images, critique and tips.

A personal favorite is the master, Moose Peterson Moose is not only a great photographer but his site is crammed with articles and tips on wildlife/nature photography.

Naturescapes is a nature photography forum with an extensive archive of articles on wildlife/nature photography

Nature Photographers on-line magazine is another valuable resource

My guru's, Ron Reznick site has some marvelous photos as well as an invaluable article on lens selection

Arthur Morris is a great photographer and teacher. His site has some great images and if you stop by consider ordering his classic book The Art of Bird Photography. Its one purchase I have never regretted.

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My tutorial on willdife photography can be found here. While looking at my tute check out the Drgrin tutorials. Lots of good info is availabe.

Do you want info on composition? Many articles on composition are available.

How do you expose for a white bird? Check out this discussion http://dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=26500

Something I do often is adding canvas to my captures.

If you want to know what time sunrise and/or sunset is for anyplace at anytime check-out http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/RS_OneYear.html

Want to shoot hummingbirds? this thread at the Nikon Cafe might help http://www.nikoncafe.com/vforums/showthread.php?t=78279

Rick Grupe found this great link for shooting backyard birds.

check out Angelo's post for birding links.

Want a 4000mm lens and you don't want to pay a gazillion dollars? Check-out
digiscoping

great stuff, thanks. Please keep upgrading as you find new resources to share, all should try to add on as well.

For photography related tutorials, I have found this very interesting.

Originally Posted by Ric Grupe For photography related tutorials, I have found this very interesting.

This section is so good, why isn't there more added to it??

David

Originally Posted by is300soon This section is so good, why isn't there more added to it?? David

Hey David,

I add more on as I find stuff that is helpful. I just added some good info on the better beamer.

Harry, thanx for the advise on my pictures i'm using a little olympus digital camera, not much but i plan to get a better camera sometime soon.
-chris

An article I found that may help you take sharper images. I found it interesting.

LongLensTechnigue

Maybe everyone else in the world knows about this addon for Firefox...I just ran across it today and thought it could be quite useful and a timesaver for some.

EXIF Viewer 1.36

Update: Today I found another exif viewer by Opanda that has a plugin/addon for IE and FF as well as stand alone version.

Great links and helpful resources.


Has anyone come accross a book/website geared to attracting wildlife in a hot and dry place? I'm in the desert (Vegas) and really want to work on my front/back "yard" to attract some wildlife. Preferably birds, but all I see around my neighborhood is pigeons!

There are a lot of birds at the parks though, and I'd love to attract some. I am looking into the [FONT=Times New Roman][FONT=Verdana]Backyard Birds [/FONT][FONT=Verdana]link in the top post, just wondering if anyone knows of desert landscaping specific info on attracting birds. I've done some searches and no luck in finding a book on Amazon about it.[/FONT]
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Originally Posted by darkdragon Great links and helpful resources. Has anyone come accross a book/website geared to attracting wildlife in a hot and dry place? I'm in the desert (Vegas) and really want to work on my front/back "yard" to attract some wildlife. Preferably birds, but all I see around my neighborhood is pigeons! There are a lot of birds at the parks though, and I'd love to attract some. I am looking into the [FONT=Times New Roman][FONT=Verdana]Backyard Birds [/FONT][FONT=Verdana]link in the top post, just wondering if anyone knows of desert landscaping specific info on attracting birds. I've done some searches and no luck in finding a book on Amazon about it.[/FONT] [/FONT]

I've looked and can't find anything specific yet.

try these

http://www.azgfd.gov/w_c/landscaping...e_garden.shtml

http://www.gardeninginsights.com/htm...orwildlife.htm

Hi Harry,

I posted a several sample images, as well as how I do my hummingbird photography here:

http://dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=105141

It also includes an explanation of the methods I use, which are actually very, very simple, and only require patience. It's a little different from the norm of what you see - natural lighting, although I've used flash before. I have many more birding images on my website, but I am a comparative rookie in terms of years doing this...

Regards,
Marc

Lisa,
In such climate, water is always the limiting resource. If you provide water (no deeper than 3/4" for small birds), they will come. It even works better if you there is a drip so that the surface is visible. Suspend a plastic bottle with a pin hole in it over the water container and the drip will make the surface more visible. This can be done anywhere. If you get birds coming to water, and have some appropriate perches for them to perch on, you have photo ops. You could use one of those large tera cotta clay dishes that you put large flower pots in a the "bath" .

Awe-Struck

Originally Posted by darkdragon Great links and helpful resources. Has anyone come accross a book/website geared to attracting wildlife in a hot and dry place? I'm in the desert (Vegas) and really want to work on my front/back "yard" to attract some wildlife. Preferably birds, but all I see around my neighborhood is pigeons! There are a lot of birds at the parks though, and I'd love to attract some. I am looking into the [FONT=Times New Roman][FONT=Verdana]Backyard Birds [/FONT][FONT=Verdana]link in the top post, just wondering if anyone knows of desert landscaping specific info on attracting birds. I've done some searches and no luck in finding a book on Amazon about it.[/FONT] [/FONT]

...can be found on Glenn Mitchell's website The Light's Right.

I found his tutorials easy to understand and quite helpful.

Plus there are actions available to make editing even easier.

Give a look see.

Just a pleathera of instructional and informative links for the beginner.
Canon Lenses http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tu...ding-mtf.shtml
Lenses http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/11/te...em&oref=slogin
Canon Equipment http://www.kenrockwell.com/index.htm
Spot Metering http://spotmetering.com/
Tips & Tricks http://www.photonhead.com/
Tips & Tricks http://www.ephotozine.com/article/Us...hite-film-4828
Tips http://www.decorphoto.com/tips.htm
Tips http://www.usa.canon.com/dlc/travels/index.jsp
Simulator http://www.photonhead.com/simcam/
simulator http://www.photonhead.com/exposure/simcam.php
Pricing http://www.photographersindex.com/stockprice.htm
Copyrighting http://www.copyright.gov/forms/
Copyrighting http://www.uspto.gov/teas/index.html
Legal http://www.usatoday.com/tech/columni...era-laws_x.htm

Nature Images Online Magazine:
http://photographersonlinemagazine.blogspot.com/

Awsome links! Can't wait to read them! (there never seems to be enough time in the day!)


www.ericalberdaphotography.com

For anyone who likes to make photo books, as I do, www.blurb.com has just come out with a way to make ebooks for ipads that is really impressive. You can take any book you have already made, or any new ones, and when you check out, there is an option to purchase the book as an ebook, and the price is currently $1.99 per book! I tried it yesterday, and it worked like a charm! Once purchased, Blurb sends you an email, which you open on your ipad, and simply click on the provided link--the Ipad's Ibook app automatically downloads your book. It come out in a two page format, but the ibook app lets you zoom in, and also increase or decrease the display light so that your photos look optimal. I think it is really a neat deal. I'd love to see an Ebook of Harry's Africa trip!

Best, Pam

maybe this is useful to someone

http://nikonpages.heymanphotography....mod/index.html

I noticed that Public Liability Insurance was obviously started a long time ago and i was wondering if its still being updated as i cant get some of the links to work an wondered if there were updated links or websites?

thanks