Close Gators, originally uploaded by QuakerVille. Via Flickr: When we arrived at Anhinga Trail today right away we started seeing gators across the lakes and canals. Some tourist asked me what kept the gators on the other side of the bank and if I thought they would visit the side where we all were walking….
Alligator Pair
Alligator Pair, originally uploaded by QuakerVille. These two gators were sunning themselves along the Anhinga Trail in the Everglades National Park in Florida today. They were so close to the walkway some people, including the kids were petting their tails as the leathery reptiles basked in the warm noon sun. I stood about 25 feet…
The Eagle Has Landed
This small photo sequence will give you an opportunity to watch a Bald Headed Eagle fly across the sky and land on a power pole. Pay careful attention to the eagle as he is preparing to catch the pole with his talons. It’s a cool sequence. Click the arrow in the screen below to begin…
Evans High School Reunion, Pine Hills, Orlando
Evans High School, Pine Hills Orlando – Separate Pictures , a set on Flickr. For the Slide Show Link Click Here Well, it’s that time of life when you are reminded of your age. This weekend Jo, my wife, and I were able to celebrate a milestone in life, a high school reunion, the 40th to…
Recent Personal Profile Update in Flickr
Recently I updated my profile on Flickr photo service and wrote this intro. I wanted to share it on my blog. It explains a little bit about why I take pictures. My name is Jon-Mark Davey and I love to take pictures. I’ve taken hundreds of thousands of pictures since I got my first camera…
Birds Superb Gallery
Bird Superb, a gallery on Flickr. As I connect with other avian photographers around the world we tend to share each others pictures with our friends. In this Flickr Gallery you will see 16 of the most beautiful bird pictures I’ve seen. Click the link and check out the gallery called Birds Superb. As superb…
American Bittern
American Bittern, originally uploaded by QuakerVille. American Bittern’s are elusive birds. When they are around they totally blend in with their surroundings. I just captured this photo this weekend while Jo, my wife, and I were visiting Wakodahatchee, a wetland park about 30 minutes north of our home in Palm Beach County, Florida. There were…
Heron & the Snake
Heron & the Snake, originally uploaded by ShacklefordPhotoArt. WoW! I really love to take pictures of Great Blue Herons and have hundreds if not thousands of pictures showing GBH’s doing all kinds of normal things. Photographer Donnie Shackelford captured this action in one of my all time favorite wetland areas, Wakodahatchee in Palm Beach. Check…
Sunset over the Everglades
Sunset over the Everglades – March, originally uploaded by QuakerVille. The Everglades begins just below the sugar cane fields in Palm Beach County and runs over a hundred miles to the south where it ends up in Florida Bay just below Everglades National Park. Many people think that the entire Florida Everglades is a…
Quaker Pair
Quaker Pair, originally uploaded by QuakerVille. I’ve been photographing Quaker Parrots in my home and in the wild since 1996 when we brought Stanley my first Quaker Parrot home from the store and I have enjoyed it so much. Stanley really gave me the inspiration to start taking a lot of bird pictures. Many years…
Little Green Heron
Little Green Heron, originally uploaded by QuakerVille. Golden time in the Everglades. It’s that time of day when the sun is setting, it’s getting a little cooler, and all the birds are finishing their meals. Usually after a good meal the birds find a nice watering hole for a quick drink and a splash before…
Canon SX1 IS – Migration to the Modern
In the 1940s and 1950’s my dad was a fine photographer using a 4×5 Graflex Speed Graphic to take scenic and family portraits. I remember he had a darkroom someplace in the house to process the film from those funny black holders but I was too young to go there so I didn’t get trained…
Smiling Glossy Ibis
Smiling Glossy Ibis, originally uploaded by QuakerVille. Here is my 10-10-10 contribution, a Glossy Ibis. I captured this shot in Green Cay, Palm Beach co. and rendered to a pencil drawing using Mediachance DAP2. I have included the full poster resolution so that you can check out the detailed pencil strokes. There are about 500,000…
Sandhill Chorus
Sandhill Chorus Originally uploaded by QuakerVille JO and I are in Central Florida for a couple days visiting her high school class group. One of the places we pass through is the Orlando to Kissimmee corridor where we usually see Sand hill Cranes. We stopped at a flock of about 7 juveniles and were greeted…
Heron Roost
Heron Roost, originally uploaded by QuakerVille. The last place you would expect to find a roost for Herons and Storks is the roof of a Seafood restaurant but that’s exactly what we found during our trip to Daytona Beach, Sept 2010. We were driving from the beach nesting area for shore birds in New Symerna…
Daytona Beach 2010
Daytona Beach 2010, originally uploaded by QuakerVille. All around Daytoona Beach I find really neat old photos taken 100 years ago depicting life at that time. The pictures are most often sepia toned with age and some are artist renderings of a bygone era. This shot/rendering depicts Daytona of 2010 but feels like the historic…
Sandhill Crane Baby
IMG_3843-3, originally uploaded by winnu. Most photographers enjoy looking at other photographers pictures. There is a fine wildlife photographer in Vancouver, Canada that loves to capture wildlife in stills. He has a great eye, wonderful cameras and lenses and is adventurous enough to get some excellent shots. I always check out his pictures when he…
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