Holiday Sale!

Starting today we are offering images from some featured galleries at greatly reduced prices. This will last for one week only. Order in time for Christmas! The image galleries include the wildlife print collections of large animals and waterfowl plus the boating and nautical collection. Consider the canvas gallery wraps that arrive ready to hang on the wall. 11 x 14 canvas gallery wraps are normally priced at $219.95 but for one week are marked at $131.95. Other gift items include puzzles, mugs, mousepads, coasters, etc. These are all on sale at greatly reduced prices through December 10, 2009. Follow this link:

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Thank you to all of our loyal customers who purchase throughout the year!

Mature whitetail buck

This is an interesting photograph of a mature whitetail deer with massive antlers. The buck was following the trail of a doe that had passed moments earlier and hence his nose stayed at the ground as he approached. I have more opportunity to get close to bucks during the rut because they are distracted by their interest in the does.

This particular area holds a good number of deer because of the dense cover but getting a photograph is very difficult because of the abundant small saplings. The buck was inside 20 yards and this is the reason I was able to successfully focus. At farther distances it is pretty much impossible to focus on a moving animal. He was so close that he heard the shutter release and bolted. This was the only shot I got of him in this area.

Resting Whitetail Deer Buck

I was recently looking for deer to photograph and noticed this 8 point buck following some does. I carefully shadowed him while he was distracted but couldn't really get as close as I wanted. Plus, he was in constant motion. When he finally laid down I was able take my time and get closer. It took almost an hour to get in position for this shot. Look carefully to see a doe behind the buck.

100-400 lens at 400mm, no cropping.

Eagle Harbor Lighthouse-2

Here is the lighthouse at Eagle Harbor as shot from a different location than in the previous post. This spot is on the shoreline near the road that leads into town. A very scenic spot but a dull, overcast day. I timed the shot to capture the light as it revolved toward me and it shows much better than it would on a bright day.

Eagle Harbor Lighthouse

This is a photograph of the lighthouse at Eagle Harbor on the Keweenaw Peninsula of Michigan. We traveled there last week thinking the fall colors would be nice. The colors were very nice but the weather was not. Heavy overcast skies, light rain and strong winds made photography difficult. The lighthouse is functioning with separate white and red lights that continually revolve so I timed this shot to get the red light at its brightest. The red light probably would not be as noticeable on a brighter day.

Silhouette of wooden speedboat.

This image was taken during the shoot of the antique Gar Wood boat. We had nice light facing away from the sun and shot many nice photos. Also, the fog was much more dissipated in that direction. I then had the driver start to run some high speed circles around me and I initially hadn't planned on shooting towards the sun. But the fog was much more dense in that direction and as I watched the boat come from behind me I saw how cool it looked. Then I made a point of shooting in that direction on every circle made by the boat.

Horse and rider jumping a fence-illustration.

A horse and rider jumping a fence during a horse show. We've been adding some special illustration effects to some of the action images from the summer horse shows. The background was out of focus in the original photograph but still added some clutter to the image. We can still see the background elements but they are not distracting now. We blended the rider into the background so as to make her more generic and unidentifiable. The full-size image has a texture added to simulate canvas.