Bosque 2012

Last week we completed our first Wildlife Photo Workshops of 2012. The workshop was The Birds of Bosque and it was run through Santa Fe Photographic Workshops. This is a "hybrid" workshop. We spend the first 3 days photographing the birds in Bosque Del Apache National Wildlife Sanctuary in New Mexico. We than go to Santa Fe where we spend 2 days editing and printing the photos in the school's state-of-the-art digital lab.

Bosque Del Apache National Wildlife is the winter home of thousands of sandhill cranes, tens of thousands of arctic snow geese and a bevy of other species

Watching these thousands of explode into flight or fly-in for the night in the spectacular high desert sunset is really one of nature's more wondrous sights.

We had a great group for the workshop which ran from before sunrise to well into the evening. Everybody was there for every moment. The photographs the printed the last two day in Santa Fe were amazing especially when one considers that most of the participants had very little experience with nature photography or digital printing.

Happy New Year

Happy New Year to All,

Paula and I would like to wish everybody a very Happy New Year and great photography in 2012. We will be leaving later this week to do a wildlife workshop for Santa Fe Photographic Workshops in Bosque del Apache. Bosque is a national wildlife sanctuary in New Mexico where tens of thousands of sandhill cranes and arctic snow geese winter. After 3 days of shooting at Bosque we drive to Santa Fe to spend 2 days printing in the schools state of the art digital lab.

We are also looking forward to three 2012 trips to Alaska as well as trips to the Tetons and Yellowstone. Hopefully we will also have time this year to finally explore more of Western Washington and the Olympic Peninsula.

The snow owls have been keeping us busy here. There are at least a dozen in one of the wildlife sanctuaries in Ocean Shores. Last week we saw and photographed eight in one area. Here is one of those images.