Animals Galleries

Animals & Insects : Various Animals shot during assignments, Pet Portrait sittings or just relaxing outside. Let me capture the beauty of your pet so you may treasure them forever. Pet photos make great greeting & holiday cards. Book your pet sitting today, appointments are limited ! Like one of these ? Purchase it in your favorite size now !

Animals & Insects

Various Animals shot during assignments, Pet Portrait sittings or just ...

Updated: Nov 29, 2008 6:02am PST

Squirrels & Birds : This Gallery is filled with our Furry & Feathered Friends of Nature.

Squirrels & Birds

This Gallery is filled with our Furry & Feathered Friends of Nature.

Updated: Aug 20, 2008 9:52pm PST

Bronx Zoo NY City : TIP: Best Viewed as SLIDESHOW I took a photo trip to the Bronx Zoo in NY City on 6/5/08 to relax, get some great animal shots and enjoy the fresh air. Well I accomplished 2 out of 3 since the fresh air turned into a steady rain fall most of the day. I certainly put the weather seals on the D300 to the test but I'm happy to report they past with flying colors and kept the electronics nice & dry. I managed to get some really great shots especially of the GORILLA'S, GRIZZLY & POLAR BEARS. They have 2 VERY large Silver Back Gorilla families there and even through the thick Plexiglas enclosure the shots came out fantastic & the gorilla's cooperated like they were at a family portrait session, so be sure to check those out, this is a MUST SEE Gallery IMO! I'm going to research the Gorilla families and post the information in the gallery for your education if interested. All images are for print sale or private & commercial licensing. Thanks for looking and I hope you all enjoy the animal images as much as I enjoyed shooting them. As always feel free to leave comments on any photo you wish. Best Regards, ~Bill~

Bronx Zoo NY City

TIP: Best Viewed as SLIDESHOW I took a photo trip to the Bronx Zoo ...

Updated: Jul 06, 2008 4:22pm PST

Shark Tournament 2005 : "The MACO MADNESS Shark Tournament - June 25,2008" THE STORY: Welcome to my personal SHARK gallery, This gallery contains images taken during my first ever Shark Fishing Trip when myself & 5 of my cousins decided to charter a boat and enter the 2005 East Coast Shark Tournament. As 'LUCK' would have it about 6 hours into the trip I hooked into a 393 lb. 15'-6" THRESHER SHARK'. Since we were fishing as a TEAM everyone had a chance on the rod at this big boy which took us a little over an hour to land. the largest fish I had caught up to this point was a 22 lb. blue fish so to say the least I was SHOCKED at the power behind this monster. When I first hooked it I would have sworn that someone attached a DUMP TRUCK to the end of my pole and dropped it off the side of the boat. At 5'10" & 160 lbs. I was a little out weighed and out gunned by the shark. Several times I was almost pulled over board but luckily I was able to brace myself in the corner of the boat before losing my balance and possibly becoming shark bait myself. The best part of this story is that my cousin Walter was in charge of bringing the video camera, well he did but 60 seconds into filming my ONCE IN A LIFE TIME Catch the battery that wasn't charged died !!! Thank goodness I always have a camera with me as did Walter and we got plenty of stills to document the trip, some of which I have posted in this gallery for you to enjoy. To top it all off, Walter was also in charge of entering us into the various tournaments for the weekend, being very expensive & costing us about (about $750) he entered us in 4 of the 5 tournaments, all being MACO Shark entries and leaving out the most important one being the BIGGEST 'ANY' SHARK pool, which turns out that I HAD the LARGEST Shark of any kind caught during the 2 day tournament which WOULD have netted us a cool $28,000.00 ($4,666.00 EACH) in prize money! Thinking I had won after the boat Capt. informed me it was the largest shark caught I was elated right up until Walter informed me that he didn't have an entry ticket for the Tournament and I would go home with empty pockets. Needless to say myself along with my other cousins threw Walter over board and made him swim the 70+ miles we were off shore back to the docks LOL (only kidding) . . . We were only 68 miles off shore ROTFL . . . OK we didn't make him swim but we really WANTED him too :) Well I was able to get some great shots of the sunrise, us having fun fishing as a family/team and the shark. All in all it was a great weekend and a dream come true for me, we had our pictures & the story in all the major news papers here in N.J. and I have a great scrap book and memories that will last a life time. Oh BTW We all forgave Vadj for the laps in judgement on the entries & the dead video camera battery LOL, I love him like my own brother! I hope you enjoyed my FISH Story & the gallery of shots, "Please feel free to comment on any of your favorite images" ! PS: All images in this gallery were shot with a Nikon D70 ! Best Regards, ~BILL~

Shark Tournament 2005

"The MACO MADNESS Shark Tournament - June 25,2008" THE STORY: Welcome ...

Updated: Dec 30, 2008 5:57am PST

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