Feature Articles – South Florida Wildlife Photographer

Be Creative while being shut-in at home

To help combat the mental fatigue of being locked in the house for 11 full weeks Jo and I have been working on creating new things or creating old things new ways.

Creating a Scene

Creating a Scene – We were bored, this is week #7 for us not being able to get outside and enjoy life.

Picking up Groceries

The next time you go to the grocery store be sure to take a great camera with a really big lens.

Florida Wildlife Joke

One afternoon an Eagle, a Caracara, and a Vulture walked into a bar in Kenansville looking for cocktails, all 3 are after all male.

My wife and I have been exploring Florida for over 4 decades together. We have some very secluded and very special places we visit in the everglades region of South Florida so when personal isolation became the mandate it was very easy for us to accomplish that goal because we practice it regularly. Yesterday, Saturday,…

Roseatte Spoonbill – Ding Darling

Watch a short 4k UHD video of the Roseate Spoonbill in Florida

Rumble in the Wetland

I haven’t photographed and produced a sequence video in a while. So, This is a series of action images of a couple of black bellied whistling guy ducks showing off for the ladies. Photographed in Wakodahatchee Jan 18. Images were captured on Canon 5d IV, developed and encoded to jpg with ACDSee, sequenced and pre-edited…

A Day in the Backyard

It’s been a while since I visited my backyard at lunch, on a work day, just to take some pictures.

The Old Mill

The Old Mill This mill is one of my favorite all-time places to photograph. It’s the mill, along the river where mills belong, in Pigeon Forge TN. My first images were captured in the 1970’s when I was carting around a very large box camera exposing 4×5 sheets of film at about $1.50 per shot….

Flight of the Great Blue Heron

Click… Click… Click… Click…
That’s what you usually hear while standing next to photographers with cameras with big lenses. I often overhear bystanders ask, “Why do they shoot so many pictures of the same thing”?

Painted Bunting Bathing

Click the video to see a high definition frame-by-frame view of one of the most colorful little birds in North America enjoying an afternoon bath in the wetland of South Florida. I just happened to spot this very beautiful bird taking a very animated bath and was able to capture over 200 very high quality…

Seattle’s Public Market

Pike’s Market, Seattle. All I can say is, WOW! The colors and smells of the flowers were mindbogglingly beautiful!

Jo’s Paragliding Adventure during our 45th No-Regret Anniversary, July 2018

Here is something a little different… My wife, Jo, and I celebrated our 45th anniversary (2018) and decided to celebrate it in Jackson Village, Tetons and other areas. The thing is that she turned 65 that year and decided to jump (Paraglide) off a perfectly good mountain in the Tetons. So, being the photographer/videographer I…

40th Anniversary Video Collection

Click this link to watch the 3 Anniversary videos played at the 2013 anniversary party of Jon-Mark and Jo Davey in Deerfield Beach. Click Below https://vimeo.com/album/5301272/embed

Understanding Caracaras

This weekend Jo and I learned something totally new about the behavior of the Crested Caracaras that we see here in Florida. For a long time we’ve known that our best bet for spotting them is to watch the ground or on a post about eye level. The first time we ever spotted one we…

Crested Caracara

Over the years while traveling from our home in South Florida to destinations to the north, we often see beautiful Crested Caracara along the Eagle Trail in Central Florida. These birds were once many, ranging from the grasslands in southern Florida, north around the Florida panhandle, then west around the Gulf Coast, and south through…