This is a collection of some of the catfish my family and I have caught over the last 5 or so years. The largest catfish in these photographs is a 63# flathead catfish from Lake Fork.
63 pound Flathead catfish Lake Fork.
This is the largest catfish I have caught. It was 63# caught on a goldfish. This was on the north side of Lake Fork.
Bluecatfish Lake Grapevine
Bluecat Lake Grapevine
Flathead and Bluecatfish Colorado River Austin area.
Flathead Catfish Colorado River
50 + pound Flathead Catfish Lake Fork
40 and 20 pound Flathead Lake Nasworthy
Flatheads and Blue Catfish 3-40 pounds Lake Nasworthy
This is a photo session I did with my son on Sunday. These were shot in Keller in a friends backyard. I shot the photographs with a Canon 5D Mark II using an Alien Bee flash unit.
A few years back while vacationing in Nova Scotia my family went to Peggy's Cove. Peggy's Cove is a small rural community located on the east shore of St. Margarets Bay in Nova Scotia's Halifax Regional Municipality. This spot offers great photographs. The bay scenes include old worn boats, houses and a fantastic landscape.
When most people find a snapping turtle they assume its an Alligator Snapping Turtle. In reality Alligator Snapping Turtles are much rarer than Common Snapping Turtles so you are much more likely to find a Common Snapping Turtle. There are some key difference to help you identify whether you have a Common Snapper or an Alligator Snapper.
Alligator Snapping Turtles have a larger head. They also have a beak on the top of the mouth. As you can see in the first photograph below, the Common Snapping Turtle has a small head and a small beak.
The next picture is the head of an Alligator Snapping Turtle and you can see the head is much larger and the beak is very pronounced. Also around the eye the Alligator Snapping Turtle has growths that almost look like a star.
The Common Snapping Turtle has an almost flat shell with minor bumps. The Alligator Snapping Turtle has sharp protruding spikes on it's back.
Both turtles have tail ridges.
The Alligator Snapping Turtle has a worm like appendage in it's mouth. It uses this to catch small fish which it lures into it's mouth.
Both of these reptiles are found in the same areas. They prefer creeks and small rivers. They can be found in any body of fresh water. The Alligator Snapping Turtle is endangered in some states and it is illegal to keep or kill one from the wild. The Common Snapping Turtle is far more common. Even though they look similar and share common names, the Alligator Snapping Turtle and the Common Snapping Turtle are not closely related.
The Common Snapping Turtle only gets to be around 50 pounds at the extremely high end with most only reaching 20 to 30 pounds. The Alligator Snapping Turtle can get over 200 pounds and is the largest freshwater species.
Both reptiles will eat almost anything they can get. The Common Snapping Turtle will actively forage for food and eat carrion as well as live fish, crayfish and amphibians. The Alligator Snapping Turtle is an ambush predator and will almost never forage for food. They prefer to wait with their mouths open for a fish to swim in. When a fish is within striking distance the Alligator Snapping Turtle will bite with lightning speed.
You should never handle these turtles unless you are careful. Both can deliver a powerful bite that is capable of removing body parts. Never pick the turtles up by their tails as this will hurt the spine and possibly kill the turtle.
This photograph of snapping turtles shows the difference between a Common and Alligator Snapping Turtle.
These are some water drop photographs I shot in 2012 or 2013. most of he water drops were staged using a spray bottle or a ziplock with a hole. The flowers were at Gussie park in Farmers Branch Texas just outside of Dallas.
I used a Canon Mark 5D II camera with a Canon MP-E 65mm 1x-5x macro lens. This lens will capture extremely close shots.
These are some of my favorite water drop shots. I have done quite a few.
Butterflies in the Garden at Fort Worth Botanical Gardens. These photographs of butterflies were taken at the Fort Worth Botanical Garden exhibit called Butterflies in the Garden in 2013. Every year the Fort Worth Botanical Gardens host a wide range of butterflies in early spring.
These photographs of butterflies were taken on a Canon 5D Mark II camera using a Canon MT-24EX twin flash and a Sigma 180mm macro lens. There were a lot of beautiful butterflies in the exhibit. My family spent about an hour looking at and filming the butterflies. I don’t remember how many there were but I would guess around 30 different species.
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I was cleaning the yard a few weeks ago when this young Texas Rat Snake came out of the garden. He was very calm at the time. These reptiles can be very calm or very aggressive. I kept him for a few days while I photographed him. He was very aggressive when I photographed him. I got bit a few times. I wanted some photographs of a Texas Rat Snake on a white background so I put him on some poster board and shot these.
I took a video of a very large Texas Rat Snake a few years ago. This Texas Rat Snake was around 5 foot long. I took this video of it climbing a tree. These reptiles are excellent climbers.
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