Charles Bush Photography Newsletter – December 2024

December 11, 2024 in Photo Tours, Photography

Spring Bird Photography Tours: Now open for booking! Explore Cazan Lake, Miller’s Lake, Jefferson Island, Lake Martin, and Henderson Swamp while capturing nesting birds like egrets, herons, Roseate Spoonbills, and Osprey in flight. Includes three half days by boat and three half days on land.
Fall Tour Highlights: 2024 season concluded with spectacular imagery of autumn cypress trees. View the best photos in our gallery. 2025 dates to be announced soon.
Tool Updates: Insights from using Fast Raw Viewer and Photo Mechanic during fall tours. Detailed comparison coming soon.
Backup Strategies: Guidance for Apple users on the latest options for protecting your photo files. Blog post coming soon.

Fall Pano at Lake Martin — Lake Martin Panoramic

November 2022 Newsletter

November 10, 2022 in Photo Tours

Fall Tours

Space remains in my photo tour on November 28th . I have 3 participants currently andtwo spots are remaining. I limit my tours to no more than 5 participants allowing lots of hands-on assistance if required. Fall comes late in Louisiana, with the Cypress colorful during the last two weeks of November into early December. The tours include destinations accessed by power boats or on land, featuring large old-growth cypress trees growing in the water. A variety of weather conditions provide excellent photo opportunities. Frequently on cold, still mornings, the mist is over the water, and by positioning the boat or yourself, the mist takes on a yellow cast. Other mornings bring heavy fog obscuring the background and allowing stunning high-key black and white and color images. Finally, you can make more traditional fall images on clear sunning days. I hope you will join us on one of these tours.

Golden Fog Pano — Early Morning Mist at Lake Dauterive.

October 2022 Newsletter

October 17, 2022 in Photo Tours

Anticipating the Fall Tours

My fall tours start on November 15th as a guide for Chuch Heney's photo tour https://www.chuckhaney.com/louisiana-cypress-photography-workshop-tour/, followed by my photo tour on November 28th https://charlesbushphoto.com/events/2020/11/30/november-30-dec3-2020-louisiana-nature-photo-tour-c3dfk30-lbx9x.

Fall comes late in Louisiana, with the Cypress colorful during the last two weeks of November into early December. The tours include destinations that are either accessed by power boats or on land, featuring large old-growth cypress trees growing in the water.

White Ibis in Breeding Plumage Millers Lake - Taken with Nikon D2X and Nikkor 300 AFS F/4 with TC-14e Teleconverter

Bird Photography Equipment on a Budget (2020 Update)

February 18, 2020 in Photo Tours

Bird Photography on a Budget

The equipment for bird photography can be very expensive. Part of this is the nature of the business, photographing small moving objects requires long telephoto lenses and effective autofocus systems
Beginning bird photographers would be well served with a good cropped sensor camera body and 400 mm f/5.6 lens or a 300 mm f/4 lens with a 1.4x teleconverter. By applying several common sense strategies you can acquire such a system at a reduced cost.

February 2020 Newsletter

February 04, 2020 in Photo Tours, Photo Class, Photography

This month I cover issues related to the potential closing of access to Lake Martin, a morning shoot in Lower Terrebonne Parish, and current openings in my photo tours and classes.

Photo of Kim Voorhies of the Atchafalaya Experience

April 05, 2017 in Photo Tours

My good friend Kim Voorhies of the Atchafalaya Experience polling us through the swamp on the November photo tour. I've been working with Kim on these tours for 15 years now and he is the best, going the extra mile time after time to get us the best images.

Roseate Spoonbill Taking Flight–Jefferson Island March 2017

Scouting Trip for the 2017 Photo Tours

March 19, 2017 in Photo Tours, Photography

Yesterday, March 18th, 2017, I made my first trip to check out the sites I use for my April and May Louisiana Bird Photography Tours. I visited Lake Martin, Jefferson Island, and the Wading Bird Rookery located in Klondike Louisiana.

Bird Photography Equipment on a Budget

January 30, 2015 in Photo Tours

Bird Photography on a Budget

Photographing from a Boat

April 09, 2013 in Photography, Photo Tours

Living in Southern Louisiana, we are surrounded by water. Over 40 percent of the wetlands in the lower 48 states are within Louisiana. The crown jewel of Louisiana Wetlands is the Atchafalaya Basin. The Atchafalaya Basin is North America's largest swamp and has an abundance of wildlife. With all this water, a nature photographer in Southern Louisiana will at some point spend time photographing from a boat.

Roseate Spoonbill Collecting sticks

Roseate Spoonbills tending chicks

Roseate Spoonbills building a nest

Roseate Spoonbills

Roseate Spoonbill

Roseate Spoonbills overhead

Roseate Spoonbill in Flight

Roseate Spoonbill Feeding Chick

Roseate Spoonbill Family

Roseate Spoonbill - Motion Blurr

Photographing the Roseate Spoonbill

April 08, 2013 in Photo Tours

I've moved this from my old Web site. While I've updated the images using a slide show rather than the original in-line images, the content remains the same.