Tony Pratt

Archive for September, 2010

Sep
15

Getting Ready for Spring

Filed Under Macro, Scenics, Summer 2010

Many plants work all summer to produce seeds for the spring. Fall is the time when those seeds fall to the ground and wait for the warmth to return after the winter. An ant investigates the slow motion explosion and release of these seeds.

Sep
14

Light and Waves

Filed Under Scenics, Summer 2010, Sunrises and Sunsets

The last light of day plays out over ripples and waves under the Cape pier.

Sep
14

Night Shift

Filed Under Scenics, Summer 2010, Sunrises and Sunsets

People were heading out on the the Cape Henlopen pier tonight for a little night fishing as the sun set.

Sep
12

Late Day Beach

Filed Under Portraits, Summer 2010

A friend posed recently for a late day shoot at the beach.

friend 9.6

Sep
11

Big Wings

Filed Under Egrets, Summer 2010

Snowy Egrets taking flight.

Egrets Prime Hook 9.6

Sep
9

Testing the Waters

Filed Under gulls, Summer 2010

A Ring-billed Gull dips its beak into the flow of a broken wave.

Gulls Sanderling 9.5

Sep
8

Slippery Slope

Filed Under Shorebirds, Summer 2010

This Sanderling tempts gravity on a slippery rock while searching for a breakfast snack.

Surfing 8.29.2010_7730

Sep
6

Dancing Snowy

Filed Under Egrets, Summer 2010

I lucked into a large group of egrets and gulls this morning who, themselves, had lucked into shallow water in the marsh that was teeming with fish. The birds and I were very lucky, the not fish not so.

Egrets Prime Hook 9.6

Sep
5

Ring-billed Gull

Filed Under gulls, Summer 2010

This Ring-billed Gull does not know that today is Sunday of Labor day weekend, and that in just two days it will have a beach very much more free of people.

Gulls Sanderling 9.5

Sep
4

Off the Top

Filed Under Summer 2010, Waves

Waves from Hurricane Earl were a welcome relief for surfers from the flat summer ocean condition.

Hurricane Earl Waves 9.3