Hanging out in the warm sun, listening to nothing but sounds of nature. This heron flies into my camera, and jumps around looking to fill its belly with minnows. Almost non-stop action, and a shutter getting its exercise!

Love Florida.

Tricolored Heron in Flight
Orlando, Florida

ray@raymondbarlow.com
Nikon D850 ,Nikkor 200-400mm f/4G ED-IF AF-S VR
1/5000s f/4.0 at 400.0mm iso800

Heading south once again, Harry and I will tour the grassy swamps and have our fill of the superb Florida Birds once again., back on Saturday, so take good care!

Cattle Egret in Florida
Raymond Barlow USA - Wildlife and Nature

http://www.raymondstigerprints.com
Nikon D850 ,Nikkor 200-400mm f/4G ED-IF AF-S VR
1/3200s f/5.6 at 200.0mm iso640

Home from Florida, we had a good trip., 3 days of shooting and around 2700 images, and lots of good sightings. Thanks to Harry Hersh!

Belted Kingfisher in the Rain (shooting from inside the truck!)

Orlando, Florida

ray@raymondbarlow.com
Nikon D850 ,Nikkor 200-400mm f/4G ED-IF AF-S VR
1/200s f/4.0 at 400.0mm iso400

Juvenile red shouldered hawk
Orlando, Florida

ray@raymondbarlow.com
Nikon D850 ,Nikkor 200-400mm f/4G ED-IF AF-S VR
1/800s f/4.0 at 400.0mm

Peregrine Falcon in Florida
Orlando, Florida

This Peregrine has found a great home! Surrounded by 10's of thousands of bird in a huge swamp... life is good!

ray@raymondbarlow.com
Nikon D850 ,Nikkor 200-400mm f/4G ED-IF AF-S VR
1/320s f/6.3 at 400.0mm iso1000

Purple Gallinule in Flight
Orlando, Florida

So many opportunity's this trip to catch action shots of these beautiful birds... I could shoot this place every day for a week, and still want more!
They run on the water, and fly from patch to patch of the lily pads., so I just sit back and be ready! No feeding ... just patience.

ray@raymondbarlow.com
Nikon D850 ,Nikkor 200-400mm f/4G ED-IF AF-S VR
1/4000s f/6.3 at 340.0mm iso2000

Along the walking paths in Florida Wetlands Parks, there can be few opportunities to get low, and shoot off the level of the water due to the coarse foliage. . In this case, I was lucky... at my favourite pond not too far from our hotel, this beauty performed for me while I crawled down to the edge of the water.

So nice that the bird is used to people, as it gave me such a good chance for so many images. I was also 10 feet from a pie-billed grebe, and it popped up from its hunt right in front of me... more images soon!

Little Green Heron Fishing
Orlando, Florida

ray@raymondbarlow.com
Nikon D850 ,Nikkor 200-400mm f/4G ED-IF AF-S VR
1/1600s f/7.1 at 400.0mm iso800

Shoreline Snowy Owl
Ontario, Canada

Owl tours and prints!
ray@tigerprints.net
Nikon D800 ,Swarovski Spotting Scope - 95mm Optic
1/2500s f/9.5 iso1000

Out shooting with Harry Hersh and Bruce Kennedy a couple days ago, here is my first edit. I was switching back and fourth with my Nikon, and the Swarovski kit. Just for fun, here is a shot using the scope.

The scope kit combination I use is an 95 mm optic, an STX body, an eyepiece, a TPO adapter, and a Nikon ring adapter.

I can easily change that adapter to any brand of camera, DSLR, Mirror-less, or set up for cell phone shooting in seconds.

With this kit, I am shooting at 900mm at the widest zoom on the lens (30x) at f9.5. From there this image is a slight crop.

The kit works well in the above situation, when your subject is resting, and you have time to mess around with exposures, etc. There are no electronics in the lens, so you have 100% manual focus, and fixed aperture. Like the good ole days with my Canon ftb.

The tough issue is wind, with this kind of magnification, wind and moving subjects are difficult.

Hoping to mess around with this gear in Florida next week.

techs .. Nikon D850 ,Swarovski Spotting Scope - 95mm Optic
1/500s f/9.5 iso320

Fly in Flight
Tanzania, Africa

Neat to catch all three species! Love Africa!!


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Nikon D850 ,Nikkor 200-400mm f/4G ED-IF AF-S VR
1/1250s f/5.6 at 400.0mm iso1000

Snowy Owl Hunting
Ontario, Canada

ray@raymondbarlow.com
Nikon D850 ,Nikkor 200-400mm f/4G ED-IF AF-S VR
1/400s f/6.3 at 380.0mm iso400

Tiger cub - India


A wild Tiger cub posing in India. An amazing moment, this very young, and confident cub left the adult female and trotted over to our jeeps location to see close up what the heck we were doing!

The cub stayed put for about three minutes, posing like a model, then was called back to the family. We were very lucky to have all 4 tigers within 20 yards of us for about 1 hour.

To me, these tigers are easily the most superb looking creature we have on our planet.

ray@raymondbarlow.com
Nikon D810 ,Nikkor 200-400mm f/4G ED-IF AF-S VR
1/400s f/7.1 at 360.0mm iso800

Beautiful wildlife in Africa, all real, nothing captive. This family of Mongoose were a fair distance off the road, so I knew I was in for a heavy crop. So, I try to keep the pixels clean, at iso 500, then preserve as much environment as I can to help tell the story ... and here we are. We kept a fair distance, the animals were not disturbed, as they were quit curious in fact.

Thanks for looking!


Common Dwarf Mongoose
Tanzania, Africa

ray@raymondbarlow.com
Nikon D850 ,Nikkor 200-400mm f/4G ED-IF AF-S VR
1/400s f/4.0 at 400.0mm iso500

Vervet Monkey in Tanzania
Tanzania, Africa

ray@raymondbarlow.com
Nikon D850 ,Nikkor 200-400mm f/4G ED-IF AF-S VR
1/1000s f/4.0 at 350.0mm iso1600

Sometimes brutal back light isn't so bad? We were in the best spot possible to watch this kill, but the sun was coming up directly in front of us!

Thought I would give it a try anyhow.

Cheetah Cub with a Kill
Tanzania, Africa

ray@raymondbarlow.com
Nikon D850 ,Nikkor 200-400mm f/4G ED-IF AF-S VR
1/1600s f/4.0 at 200.0mm iso800

Orca and Gulls - Newfoundland
Newfoundland Canada

A pod of Orca had a Minke Whale surrounded, and were in the middle of a feast when we caught up to them. they were 12 animals strong, and devouring the whale right below our boat!
Nikon D300 ,Nikkor 200-400mm f/4G ED-IF AF-S VR
1/500s f/4.0 at 200.0mm iso400

Lake Ontario Sea-scape
Ontario, Canada

ray@raymondbarlow.com
samsung SM-N910W8
1/361s f/2.2 at 4.6mm iso800

Thanks to Swarovski for providing me with some great equipment to experiment with. The new support kit is brilliant!

Waxing Gibbous - Sept 24 12:30 am
Ontario, Canada

Ray@raymondbarlow.com
Nikon D850 ,Swarovski Spotting Scope - 95mm Optic
1/250s f/9.5 iso64

Damselfly in Flight!

My sweet Maria and I went out into the hot field, beside some lagoons, and took images of bees and damselflies. So much fun, and hope to better next time. I did get a neat shot of 2 bees., i will post tomorrow.


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Nikon D850 ,Nikkor 200-400mm f/4G ED-IF AF-S VR
1/1250s f/4.0 at 360.0mm iso2000

best regards.

raymond

There is always something out there!!

Out with sweet Maria on a training program, helping her get used to setting up a camera... and some fun near a swamp with the goldenrod and a few yellow jackets!

Love the challenge, so long as there is a little success!

Yellow Jacket Bee and a little friend.
Raymond's Ontario Nature Photography

ray@raymondbarlow.com
Nikon D850 ,Nikkor 200-400mm f/4G ED-IF AF-S VR
1/6400s f/7.1 at 400.0mm iso2000

Resplendent Quetzal in Costa Rica

One of the most incredible birds worldwide, the male Quetzal is truly a work of natures beauty. Having such a chance to photograph such colours and feathers was quite an experience!

Costa Rica will always be on of my favourite travel destination., I am now planning a tour for January. What a place for a winter break from the snow and cold!

Thanks for looking!

I was never happy with this image, and the original edit, so I took another crack at it last night, for fun. Maybe a little better, but regardless, I will give this shoot another try next spring!

Tree Swallow in Flight
Raymond's Ontario Nature Photography

ray@raymondbarlow.com
Nikon D850 ,Nikkor 200-400mm f/4G ED-IF AF-S VR
1/5000s f/4.0 at 400.0mm iso640

London Ontario Air show

London Ontario Air show

This pond is one of my favorite places on earth!!

real nature, real colors, 100% natural.

Common Tern in for a Drink
Long Island - NY

ray@raymondbarlow.com
Nikon D850 ,Nikkor 200-400mm f/4G ED-IF AF-S VR
1/2000s f/5.6 at 400.0mm iso1000

Four Common terns chasing the fifth, for a meal. A nesting colony near NYC proves to be very productive this time of year!

Five Hungry Terns
Long Island - NY

ray@raymondbarlow.com
Nikon D850 ,Nikkor 200-400mm f/4G ED-IF AF-S VR
1/1250s f/5.6 at 200.0mm iso320

Another road trip to Long Island this summer, and great results .. so much fun too! Birds in flight everywhere you look, it is overwhelming. Really, I just get worn out so quickly, it takes a lot of energy to keep up with all this, and come home with a few images to process.

This is such a superb bird!

Black_Skimmer in Flight
Long Island - NY

ray@raymondbarlow.com
Nikon D850 ,Nikkor 200-400mm f/4G ED-IF AF-S VR
1/4000s f/4.0 at 400.0mm iso500

Maria Barlow - Fog show at Algonquin!
Algonquin Provincial Park

Long drive yesterday, 2:30 pm, off to Huntsville for dinner, then a quick run into Algonquin until almost midnight, as we came home with this shot. About 5 am I was back home, and toast! 24 hour days are fun, along with too much coffee!

Maria basically took this shot, I just coached with the tech stuff, she is really getting this photography deal!

Sharing what I know about photography with Maria is quite an honor.. she is really keen, and picks things up quickly. She is already teaching me!

Best regards!
Nikon D850 ,Nikkor 17-35mm f/2.8D ED-IF AF-S
10s f/4.0 at 28.0mm iso1600

Please help save nature.

Tiger cub - India
India

ray@raymondbarlow.com
Nikon D810 ,Nikkor 200-400mm f/4G ED-IF AF-S VR
1/400s f/7.1 at 350.0mm iso800

Magnificent Hummingbird in Flight
Costa Rica

ray@raymondbarlow.com
Nikon D800 ,Nikkor 200-400mm f/4G ED-IF AF-S VR
1/2500s f/4.0 at 310.0mm iso500

Royal Bengal Tige Cub
India

ray@raymondbarlow.com
Nikon D810 ,Nikkor 200-400mm f/4G ED-IF AF-S VR
1/640s f/4.5 at 400.0mm iso2000

Black_Skimmer in Flight
Long Island - NY

ray@raymondbarlow.com
Nikon D850 ,Nikkor 200-400mm f/4G ED-IF AF-S VR
1/4000s f/4.0 at 400.0mm iso500

Wild Tiger Photo Tours

Tigeress and her angry cub
India

ray@raymondbarlow.com
Nikon D810 ,Nikkor 200-400mm f/4G ED-IF AF-S VR
1/320s f/8.0 at 400.0mm iso2000

A nesting colony of Black skimmers, what a fantastic place to hang out shooting! 1000's of birds, flights almost none stop, great practice and superb weather!

I normally do not shoot against blue skies, so here I had not a lot of choice! With the light fading during the late afternoon, we had to shoot while we had the opportunity.

Can't wait to go back!

Black skimmers Fighting
Long Island - NY
Nikon D850 ,Nikkor 200-400mm f/4G ED-IF AF-S VR
1/2500s f/5.0 at 270.0mm iso2500

Black skimmer - Skimming
Long Island - NY

ray@raymondbarlow.com
Nikon D850 ,Nikkor 200-400mm f/4G ED-IF AF-S VR
1/2000s f/5.0 at 270.0mm iso2500

Another Photo-shoot on Long Island NY, what a blast! Pretty much none stop birds in flight, it can wear you out! Just a short 3 day trip, 2 nights in a very nice hotel, and some great NYC food.

Looking forward to the next trip!

American oystercatcher in Flight
Long Island - NY

ray@raymondbarlow.com
Nikon D850 ,Nikkor 200-400mm f/4G ED-IF AF-S VR
1/1600s f/4.0 at 400.0mm iso1000

Let me GO!!!

Great White Egret and a Bullfrog
Orlando, Florida



Let Me GO!!!

(back to Florida!)
Nikon D810 ,Nikkor 200-400mm f/4G ED-IF AF-S VR
1/640s f/5.6 at 600.0mm iso1000

Royal Bengal Tiger marking territory.

I am not much into watching animals pee, but this was fun to catch! Real nature, real wildlife in India!

thanks for looking!

ray@raymondbarlow.com
Nikon D800 ,Nikkor 200-400mm f/4G ED-IF AF-S VR
1/1600s f/4.0 at 400.0mm iso1600

We had one morning with some high winds and dust, here the mother and cub are trying to navigate to the water hole after a good feeding.

Cheetah Mother and Cub in a Dust Storm
Tanzania, Africa

ray@raymondbarlow.com
Nikon D850 ,Nikkor 200-400mm f/4G ED-IF AF-S VR
1/4000s f/4.0 at 350.0mm iso640

Elephant Feeding Time - Trunk up!
Tanzania, Africa

Ray@raymondbarlow.com
Nikon D850 ,Nikkor 200-400mm f/4G ED-IF AF-S VR
1/160s f/4.0 at 400.0mm iso500

Cheetah adult female and her cub.
Clean up time!

Join me in January?

Tanzania, Africa

ray@raymondbarlow.com
Nikon D850 ,Nikkor 200-400mm f/4G ED-IF AF-S VR
1/4000s f/4.5 at 400.0mm iso640

Vervet Monkey in Tanzania
Tanzania, Africa

ray@raymondbarlow.com
Nikon D850 ,Nikkor 200-400mm f/4G ED-IF AF-S VR
1/500s f/4.0 at 400.0mm iso800

Well, at least the head is in focus! At about 6 feet, it's tough to get this tiny bird face on and sharp. worth a try.

Ruby-throated Hummingbird in Flight
Ontario, Canada

rsy@raymondbarlow.com
Nikon D850 ,Niko 200-400mm f/4G ED-IF AF-S VR
1/8000s f/6.3 at 340.0mm iso6400

Black skimmer - Skimming
Long Island - NY

ray@raymondbarlow.com
Nikon D850 ,Nikkor 200-400mm f/4G ED-IF AF-S VR
1/3200s f/5.6 at 380.0mm iso1000

Black Skimmer Crash
Raymond Barlow Photo Tours to USA - Wildlife and Nature

ray@raymondbarlow.com
Nikon D850 ,Nikkor 200-400mm f/4G ED-IF AF-S VR
1/2000s f/4.5 at 400.0mm iso1600

Black Skimmer Nose Dive
New York Coast

ray@raymondbarlow.com
Nikon D850 ,Nikkor 200-400mm f/4G ED-IF AF-S VR
1/2000s f/4.5 at 240.0mm iso1600

Wonderful chance to photograph Africa's beauty! A couple hours previous to this shot we were getting off the plane, and checking through customs. about 2 minutes with this bird, and smiles all around.

Dreams come true in the parks of Tanzania.


Lilac-breasted roller - Tanzania
Tanzania, Africa

ray@raymondbarlow.com
Nikon D850 ,Nikkor 200-400mm f/4G ED-IF AF-S VR
1/80s f/4.0 at 400.0mm iso250

A young cheetah practices hunting on the plains of the Serengeti - Ndutu.
Being there is so amazing, real wildlife, real nature and more the awesome!


Cheetah Hunting - Tanzania
Tanzania, Africa

ray@raymondbarlow.com
Nikon D850 ,Nikkor 200-400mm f/4G ED-IF AF-S VR
1/1250s f/4.0 at 380.0mm iso800