Kenai Black Bear (Ursus americanus, Ours noir perniger) Kenai Peninsula, Alaska ©Christopher Dodds Sony Alpha a9 Mirrorless Camera & Sony FE 400 f/2.8 GM OSS ISO 1,600, f/9 @ 1/800s Manual Exposure mode. Join me for a workshop to learn more CLICK HERE.
A Black Bear curiously watches as I maneuver around for a better angle. A much more passive encounter than the last Black bear I saw in Alaska that bluff charged me a couple of times, but that is a story for another day - smile.
Great Grey Owl (Strix nebulosa, Chouette Lapone, GGOW) ©Christopher Dodds Sony Alpha a9 Mirrorless Camera & Sony FE 400 f/2.8 GM OSS with Sony FE 2X Teleconverter ISO 2,000, F5.6 @ 1/5,000s Manual Exposure mode. Join me for my winter owl workshops this January/February to learn more CLICK HERE.
Here’s a Great Grey Owl to celebrate International Owl Awareness Day!
Osprey(Pandion haliaetus, Balbuzard pêcheur, OSPR) with American shad (Alosa sapidissima) from my OSPREYS GALORE WORKSHOP near Vero Beach, Florida ©Christopher Dodds All Rights Reserved. Sony Alpha a9 Mirrorless camera & Sony FE 400mm f/2.8 G Master OSS Lens & Sony FE 2X Teleconverter ISO 3,200, f/5.6 @ 1/4,000s Manual exposure.
If you want to make images like this while learning all of the intricacies of birds in flight photography (and birds on perches), then join the fun on Lake Blue Cypress in Florida this April. We cruise the sunrise and sunset hours away on a pontoon boat with hundreds of pairs of Ospreys bringing fish back to their babies in Florida’s golden light. Ospreys Galore and so much more promises to fill your Osprey portfolio with amazing action packed images. Read more about Ospreys Galore and so much more HERE.
Coastal Brown Bear Spring Cub PORTRAIT (Ursus arctos) Hallo Bay, Katmai National Park, Alaska. Image Copyright ©Christopher Dodds. Sony Alpha a7R III Mirrorless camera & Sony FE 400mm f/2.8 G Master OSS Lens with Sony FE 2X Teleconverter @800mm ISO 1,000, f/8 @ 1/400s Manual exposure.
Another spring cub from my recent Coastal Brown Bear boat trip in Katmai National Park, Alaska. Getting down low below eye level makes for a much more intimate portrait. Not always easy when the subject is in long grass, so having this cub stand on the edge of it's day bed looking directly at us for a fraction of a second was a gift - smile.