Category: Animals

Mountain Goats

Twin Fawns, Elwha Valley, Olympic National Park by Allan J Jones
Mountain Goat Mom and kid, High Divide Trail, Olympic National Park

We were hiking around the High Divide in Olympic National Park and had camped in Seven Lakes Basin and took a day trip down to Hoh Lake. On the way back up to Bogachiel Pass, I came around a rock outcrop and found myself face to face with a black bear. We were both startled… but he moved downhill and out of sight much faster than I could get my camera ready.

On the way down to the side trail to Seven Lakes Basin, we came face to face with a family group of mountain goats standing in the trail. We were a little nervous, but I wasn’t as concerned as I was with the bear… and I was able to get a number of photos.

Camera: Nikon D200
Lens: 18-70mm set at 70mm
ISO 100    1/50 sec    f4.5
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Young Buck

Young Buck on Hurricane Hill, Olympic National Park photo by Allan J Jones
Young Buck on Hurricane Hill, Olympic National Park

I was hiking out to Hurricane Hill in Olympic National Park and on the return there were a couple deer coming down the hillside. This is a very highly traveled area and the animals are used to people … that and they have never experienced hunting. So, this young buck was a lot less nervous than in areas where there is an annual hunting season. They stopped alongside the trail and were grazing some of the wild flowers.

While I had my zoom all the way out at 300mm, this image isn’t cropped at all. I got closer, but this is the image that was the most interesting.

Photo taken July 30, 2016

Camera: Nikon D810
Lens: Nikon 28-300mm set at 300mm
ISO 160    1/320 sec    f5.6
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Traffic Jam, Highway 395

Cattle herd traffic jam photo by Allan J Jones
Hwy 395 traffic jam: cattle herd

I was driving back from Reno, Nevada to Olympia taking the backroads when I was delayed by this herd of cattle being moved from one pasture to another. There are a couple of real cowboys (on horses, not ATVs or dirt bikes) making sure they go where they are supposed to. This was the only traffic I saw for about 2 hours. That’s the kind of driving I like best.

Photo taken July 30, 2015

Camera: Nikon Df
Lens: Nikon 28-300mm set at 85mm
ISO 800    1/800 sec    f/14
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Red Tail Bumble Bee

Red Tailed Bumble Bee On Himalayan Blackberry
Red Tailed Bumble Bee On Himalayan Blackberry

On a (Himalayan) blackberry blossom… alongside Capitol Lake.

I noticed all the bumblebees on the blackberry blossums and decided to see what happened if I just focused on a blossum and waited for a bee to show up. I had to bump up the ISO a little to give me enough shutter speed to hold the motion of the blossom in the light breeze, while keeping the aperture set to give adequate depth of field.

and yes, this is cropped … I wasn’t really that close. (if I had been, the depth of field would have been reduced a lot)

Photo taken June 4, 2018

Camera: Nikon D810
Lens: Nikon 55mm f 1.8
ISO 400    1/500 sec    f/9.0
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