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Here at Wild Louisiana Tours we pride ourselves on providing our guests with the best equipment available in the outdoor industry. Stability, maneuverability, and comfort are required to allow guests to enjoy their experience in comfort while securely taking photographs with expensive photography equipment and smart phones. For this reason we choose to use Jackson Kayaks, as they…

Here in Louisiana we have all of the members of the Ardeidea and Threskiornithidae families native to the USA. A wading bird rookery is one of the best places to get shots of these birds because all of the birds are in one place. The birds choose trees or shrubs that are on islands or surrounded by water to help isolate their nests from predators. Alligators usually patrol the surrounding water protecting the nests from invaders and capitalizing on young that fall from the nest. Rookeries are generally historic nesting sites that the birds have been coming back to year after year. Great Blue Herons and Great Egrets arrive in January, followed by Snowy Egrets and Little Blue Herons in March and April, and finally Roseate Spoonbills, Cattle Egrets, Ibis, and night herons start to show up as late as June. My first chance to make…

I got the chance to make the 2 hour drive south to Grand Isle, LA this past 4th of July. Grand Isle is a premier birding hotspot and barrier island in south east Louisiana. Reddish Egrets, Magnificent Frigate Birds, Boobys, and many other harder to find birds of the Gulf Coast can be seen on any normal visit to the island. The plan was to make a 1/2 mile paddle across the barataria pass shipping passage to Isle Grande Terre, a neighboring barrier island to Grand Isle. I would shoot birds and marine life along the way, then shoot landscapes and set up camp for the night. We made the 1/2 paddle with our kayaks loaded down with camping gear and 3 foot swells, dolphins, and shrimping boats all around us. Walking the 3 mile stretch of beach presented some opportunities for…

This past weekend I got a chance to photograph some of my favorite landscapes, the Pine Savanna Flatwoods. The Flatwood ecosystems are found in the southeastern United States, stretching from Texas to Florida. Slash and Longleaf pine in the tree canopy and Saw Palmetto and other herb species in the understory are some of the species that make up these unique habitats. Fire is the most important element which maintains these spacious forests, preventing other woody plants from taking hold amongst the pines. For a landscape photographer from the south eastern United States where mountains and canyons are far and few between, trees are the friends that can help you add depth and dynamics to your photographs. The Pine Savannas are a perfect example of this, providing open and spacious understorys allowing for uncluttered and symmetrical compositions. The palmettos, wildflowers, and bogs,…