by btharp | Dec 2, 2017 | bird photography, Brenda Tharp's Photo Blog, nature photography
I had traveled around the levee roads a few times the afternoon this picture was made last year. A lot of the geese had lifted off the ponds from a ‘scare’ and landed over in a field of stubble. After one more round on the levee road during the...
by btharp | May 20, 2017 | bird photography, Brenda Tharp's Photo Blog, Conservation, Landscape Photography, nature photography, USA
Nature needs your voice! You may not know that considerations are underway by our current Department of the Interior whether to declassify lands that are presently national monuments, such as the newly designated Bears Ears in southeast Utah, the new Berryessa Snow...
by btharp | Apr 15, 2017 | bird photography, Brenda Tharp's Photo Blog, Namibia, nature photography, workshops & photo tours
My wildlife photography has mostly been about telling a story – by capturing a moment, a gesture, an interaction, of the animal(s). While I love portraits, too, gestures make the picture more exciting and storytelling to me. Last August-September, our tour...
by btharp | Oct 6, 2016 | bird photography, Brenda Tharp's Photo Blog, Landscape Photography, Namibia, nature photography, workshops & photo tours
In all my crazy travel schedules this past summer/early Fall, I only did one post from our fantastic tour in Namibia! I can’t believe it. So here’s another posting from that journey. The trip was amazing this year, too. Because of the extreme drought...
by btharp | Apr 1, 2016 | bird photography, Brenda Tharp's Photo Blog, nature photography, wildlife photography
They say practice makes perfect, but in this case, I think I simply got lucky!! I was practicing, however, over and over again, to capture these house finches as they skirmished in the air. A nearby feeder was their target and they’d squabble and land on this...
by btharp | Mar 23, 2016 | bird photography, Brenda Tharp's Photo Blog, nature photography, wildlife photography
Not all nature photography is easy, and the results don’t speak about the hours we slogged through a swamp swatting mosquitoes, or trudged up a mountaintop in fierce winds, etc. The results are what matter and it’s a good thing the images don’t...