Natural Favorites

This week, As I'm gearing up for an upcoming Costa Rica trip, I felt like revisiting my "natural" favorites. When you are shooting in the nature, and especially, when you are photographing wild animals, there are a few things you would need... Patience, determination and luck are some of them :o)

I have a few interesting shoots scheduled before I live so I will make sure I give you something fresh before I take that much-needed 2-week break!

A true beauty to watch and hard to photograph without a fast lens (which I did not have), but as I mentioned, when I saw this little hummingbird, I was determined to take a good picture and I in fact managed to get a few...

I could watch an ant or a colony of ants for hours... Is that weird?

I could also watch this little guy for hours, but I think that is more understandable :o)

When we were in Sequoia, we waited for days for an opportunity to catch a glimpse of a bear, we heard them but if this guy didn't show up the last day, I would have to wait for another time to photograph a bear.

In Big Sur's Kirk Creek camping ground, you can access a very rocky beach by following the creek and we did. After hanging out at this beach, we started hiking up and this blue dragonfly started flying in front of me, laying down and literally posing for me every once in a while. Thank you buddy :o)

I shot a mansion in Beverly Hills... Meet my assistant.

This last one is from Ventura county. I did not need neither patience, nor determination nor luck for this one :D

Catch you next week!