Gerrit Vyn is a conservation photographer and cinematographer based in Portland, Oregon. Find me at www.gerritvynphoto.com and on Instagram @gerritvyn
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To see the making of this photo of a Western Screech-Owl check out my latest Field Vlog: Link in bio š
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Another new field Vlog if you like that sort of thing. In this short one I photograph a Western Screech-Owl at its day roost. Link in bio and please subscribe!!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DTTZJLCm6I&t=56s
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World Wildlife Day! At Tragopan, we believe in putting wildlife and their welfare first. It is one of the main reasons we started this business: to promote the practice of using photography blinds to lessen our cumulative and individual impacts on wildlife and habitat. We also know it creates unique opportunities for photos.
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āļøUsing blinds benefits wildlife in several obvious way
š¦ It eliminates the foot pursuit that can cause wildlife to flush, flee, or change their behavior.
š¦ It spreads photographers out, reducing impacts on habitat and popular locations.
āļøUsing blinds also benefits photographers
š¦ It gets us closer to wildlife, more often, and without impact.
š¦„ It opens up opportunities closer to home where animals may be less approachable.
š¦ It increases chances to photograph natural, undisturbed behavior.
š¦ It allows us to create unique images in new places, instead of creating the same images at the same places everyone else goes.
New Field Vlog! Great Gray Owls! Nikon Z9!
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https://youtu.be/9kSr0XGOcfk
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First shots with the new Nikon Z9 a Great Gray Owl in the snow earlier this week. Stay tuned for the Vlog!
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Imposing and bizarre, the Greater Adjutant stork was once widespread across India and South-East Asia. Today, after years of persecution and habitat loss, it is the most endangered stork in the world with as few as 1,200 remaining in the Indian states of Assam and Bihar, and small numbers in Cambodia. The adjutant is both a wetland bird and a scavenger but, edged out of its natural home, it has had to adapt to life in a human landscape. In Assam, where storks forage at rubbish dumps and nest in villages, an inspiring conservation movement may be the species best hope for survival.
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Watch the film āHargilaā and find out more: https://bit.ly/3wYJ4PJ
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Filmed for @cornellbirds with @andyjohnstonphoto - edited by @dansadowsky ā color by @alkemiccolor
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Please take some time to check out a new film I produced and filmed along with @andyjohnsonphoto and edited by @dansadowsky for @Cornellbirds Center for Conservation Media. It tells the story of a wildlife photographer (me š) who travels to India intent on documenting the rarest stork on earth, but soon discovers a conservation hero and her inspiring efforts to rally a community to save it.
Sat tuned as I'll be sharing the story of Purnima Devi Barman, The Hargila Army, and the Greater Adjutant all week. Thanks! Link to the full film: https://bit.ly/3wYJ4PJ
Such an Awesome video from Tragopan! Enjoy!
Photographing Herons with a Tragopan V6 Blind
One of the biggest challenges in wildlife photography is getting close to subjects. A photography blind is one of the most important tools in a wildlife phot...
Still time to get my big, beautifully printed, 2022 Birds of the Pacific Northwest calendar! Link in bio ššš
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The physical feats of long-distance migratory birds are among the most awe-inspiring in the animal kingdom. And one Pacific Northwest bird, the Calliope Hummingbird, is not only the smallest bird to breed in North America but also the smallest long-distance avian migrant in the world. Each year, most migrate more than 5,000 miles to and from wintering grounds in southwest Mexico, fueled by the nectar of wildflowers and powered by a body weighing less than three paper clips. Each time I stumble across the ālittle starā flashing its brilliant magenta gorget in a mountain meadow, I am reminded of the miracles all around us in nature.
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If giant treesāfir, spruce, hemlock, and cedarādefine the visual grandeur of Northwest forests, it is one of their smallest residents, the diminutive Pacific Wren, that defines their sound. Its cascading song of trills, rambles, and musical phrases is ubiquitous in spring, as each male perches prominently above the forest floor and, with a voice that far exceeds his size, proclaims his territory to all within earshot. Even in the darkest days of winter, when the forestās migratory songbirds have departed and only the wind can be heard in the boughs above, the Pacific Wren is there. Lurking in dark recesses among sword ferns, salmonberry, and salal. Inspecting the mossy, pungent nooks of fallen trees for its next meal. Waiting for the first hints of spring when it will rise again and fill the cathedral forests with song.
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From my Birds of the Pacific Northwest 2022 Calendar - link in bio š
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Most Tufted Puffins live far out at sea or on offshore islands at northern latitudes, so many of us see them only in bird books. Growing up in Michigan, I never had an opportunity to see one until I moved to Oregon and made my way to Cannon Beach on an August morning to look for them at Haystack Rock, one of the most accessible nesting colonies in the United States. A lot has changed since I saw those puffins buzzing around their earthen burrowsātheir population has declined by as much as 95 percent in Oregon and Washington. Puffins depend on healthy oceans to make a living and raise their chicks, and climate change is disrupting their way of life. For now, you can still see a few of them at Haystack Rock, but unless we humans make profound changes in the way we treat the natural world, there will come a day when the Tufted Puffin no longer breeds in our region.
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From my 2022 Birds of the Pacific Northwest calendar available through the link in my bio. Makes a great holiday gift!
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Kit Fox kit and two vigilant parents form Montana this summer. For more on this encounter, and how I got the shot using my Tragopan Photography Blind, signup for the newsletter here: https://www.subscribepage.com/l2h6b6_copy
The dry forests east of the Cascade crest are home to one of my favorite Pacific Northwest organismsāthe ponderosa pine. This ruddy tree with its puzzle-piece bark dominates the landscape and provides habitat for a unique cast of forest-dwelling songbirds. An easy walk across the soft pine straw of an open, parklike stand of ponderosa may reveal birds specifically evolved for this habitat like the Pygmy Nuthatch, White-headed Woodpecker, and one of my favorites, the Cassinās Finch. Males are plump and rosy, while females are a streaky brown. Both are beautiful birds, but it is the maleās song I like the bestāa garrulous warble punctuated by mimicked notes and phrases they have learned and stolen from their forest neighborsāanother avian feat to marvel at on a forest stroll.
From my 2022 Birds of the Pacific Northwest calendar (link in bio)
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Iāll never forget the day I saw this owl, simply because it was so cold. It was the kind of frigid winter day when car tires on snow sound like twisting Styrofoam, and the world is so still and quiet the ringing croak of a raven can be heard a half mile away. I was slowly driving the back roads of Washingtonās Okanogan County and scanning willow thickets and treetops for anything alive when I saw himāa puffed-up bird about the size of a baseball, with fierce yellow eyes. I stopped and left the comfort of my car, feeling the rush of cold air burning deep in my lungs. While I futzed with my camera, he paid little attention to me. He just sat and stared, waiting and watching for the slightest movement of a mouse beneath the blanket of snow or a careless songbird alighting close by, focused only on snatching a meal to get him through another day.
From my Birds of teh Pacific Northwest 2022 calendar. Available through the link in my bioš
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Hi Everyone, I'm dipping my toes into the vlogoshpere with this first attempt at a Field Vlog, where I take a Tragopan V6 Photography Blind to an Oregon wetland to shoot a Great Blue Heron and Great Egret feeding frenzy.
Check it out, please share with your photog friends, and take it easy on me :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSA5r4BfjG8&t=71s
One of the biggest challenges in wildlife photography is getting close to subjects. A photography blind is one of the most important tools in a wildlife phot...
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Gerrit Vyn is a Wildlife Photographer and Cinematographer for the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, a Senior Fellow at the International League of Conservation Photographers and has been photographing birds and wildlife professionally for the last 25 years. His most recent book, The Living Bird, was a New York Times Bestseller and National Outdoor Book Award winner. He is best known for his work documenting endangered birds and conservation issues around the world and is a sought-after speaker on topics of birds, conservation and photography. His work is published regularly in magazines including National Geographic, BBC Wildlife and Audubon, and has been featured in media outlets including NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross, CBS Sunday Morning, and PBS Nature. Find me on Instagram @gerritvyn and watch for my new instructional book on bird photography in spring 2020.
