We are honored and overjoyed to be able to share our passion and photography with you! One of our favorite ways if through our photographic adventures. We have two spots that have opened up, one in our Kodiak Brown Bear Adventure in May of this year, the other is at Grand Isle, LA in February. You can learn about our Grand Isle Adventure below. Our Kodiak Brown Bear Adventure, you won’t find any information about it online. I’ll be real honest with you, it’s not for everyone and we just don’t take anyone to a very special location for this very special adventure. If you think you are up to the challenge, the measure, you will need to call the office and talk with the boss, Sharon who will be honest with you whether you’re up to the bear magic. If you’re wondering the kind of photographic opportunities we come across on our Adventures, click here to see a big sample. Love to share it all with you, look forward to making images with you!

Grand Isle Bird Adventure March ’24

Each spring the millions of shorebirds that went south in winter come back north. They look for a stopover after making the flight over the Gulf and one of the major landfalls is Grand Isle, LA and we’re going to be there to give them a grand welcome! We literally hit the beaches photographing them flying overhead to lying on the sand up close and personal for four days of incredible fun! During our week we can expect to photograph over thirty species of birds, big and small. And I want you to join me for this fun in the sun!

You fly in and out of New Orleans where we then head to the coast. Our merry band of shooters (taking five, three spots open) will then hit the beaches and coast. The price of $2150 includes all transportation once you land in New Orleans until you are back at the airport, an Adventure packet, instruction, and of course, entertainment. This will be a very special adventure and l look forward to sharing it with you and shooting alongside of you 25 Feb – 01 March 2024!

To register, give the office a call 406 .240 .3503 (9-5MDT) and Sharon will be happy to assist you!

There I was on the slough hoping the Hooded Mergansers would come over and play. No Joy. It was a gorgeous day so we just hung. Then I floating fur ball came in our direction. A passerby said, “Look, a Beaver”. I didn’t correct them as they were walking fast and I just wanted their disturbance on the waterfowl to stop. I watched the fur ball as it approached the ice flow. Muskrats are a funny water critter I enjoy watching. It soon popped up on the ice, fluffed its fur to retain its heat and then took back to the water. It wanted to play and swam basically to me. With the water looking the way it did, the light, I just had to make some shots of the floating fur ball.

One of the very first birds I saw when I “formerly” got into birding decades ago was the Hooded Merganser. I will always remember seeing it in this pond in Los Osos, CA, it was a big deal. The male which you see above is a gorgeous little duck. Oh, I’ve seen them ever since but always at a distance often through bins. Getting one close enough to get glass on one, ya, that has eluded me until now. While barely within range, the three Hoodeds were paddling, slowly, in my direction. They are a flighty bird so I stood still handholding the rig hoping the dog being walked coming my way wouldn’t flush them. The dog walker crosssed the street (the slough is a backwater for the Bitterroot River with some homes nearby). The one male kept coming closer until, click! My first shot ever of this marvelous bird and while it’s marginal at best, it broke the jinx. Even better is when the female went flying by, even though I was shooting through tree limbs I remembered to actually pan and shoot it rather than my normal, watch it to see where it landed and wondering why it flew in the first place. So I broke a jinx and started working on one of my New Year resolutions. A solid start to the year.