• Avoiding heron stereotypes!

    I want to clearly stately up front that stereotypes have no place in wildlife photography. Herons helped me prove my point. In my meandering around wildlife blogs, it seems like there are herons everywhere. Photographers are capturing them up close and personal with fairly modest zoom lenses. It’s almost like these herons are pets! Just… Continue Reading

  • Imagine if …

    Imagine you taught a fox to eat Imagine you taught a fox to hunt Imagine you taught a fox to feed her kits Would you ever imagine a fox learning so well?

  • What’s with the numbers?

    If you occasionally wander by Krahnpix to see what’s happening on the old blog, you will typically find photos and words. There may be descriptions, stories or even the odd poem to make the real poets shudder. What you won’t find is numbers. That is not an accident. Words naturally gather in my brain, find… Continue Reading

  • Happy endings?

    Fire seems like such a cruel end to a forest – turning beauty into charred remains. We got closer to fires than we’d planned when we visited Yellowstone for the first time in 1988. We knew there were forest fires before we left, but didn’t fully appreciate where it was all headed. We were not… Continue Reading

  • Bison icon

    Familiarity definitely breeds contempt. When I first see a new animal, everything it does is exciting and I’m quickly taking photos. I had the opposite experience in Yellowstone where I found bison hanging around everywhere. I quickly realized I was going to see more bison than I had laid eyes on in my entire life.… Continue Reading

  • Hunting for landscapes?

    Can you hunt for landscapes? Is it a good idea? I hope so since I think that’s what I do. I have observed and read about real landscape photographers. They generally have one thing I don’t – a serious plan that often involves a number on an alarm clock that is far too small. I… Continue Reading