SW: In the Field - Southwest and Hawaii

Sunny Walter's Nature Photography Locations

In the Field - Southwest and Hawaii

Reports from Photographers for Photographers:
Where and When to Go for Spectacular Photo Ops

Arizona
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External Links (each opens in a new window) Note: Wildlife Watcher is gone due to the death of Bill Silliker, Jr. I am saving these titles in case it is resurrected
Wildlife Locations (primarily) Arizona Locations for Bird Photography -- Richard Ditch Naturescapes.net Madera Canyon -- E.J. Peiker PhotoFocus Arizona-Sonora Museum -- Carolyn E. Wright [2004] Go To Top	Scenic Locations (primarily) Kaz Takahashi Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park Chiricahua NM, Hummingbirds and Rock Wonderland Apogee Photo Magazine Searching for Slot Canyons -- Robert Hitchman [Nov-Dec, 1996] Sedona Adventure -- Noella Ballenger [Mar-Apr, 1999] Where To Find Spring Wildflowers -- Bob Hitchman [Jan-Feb, 1997] Winter in the Sonoran Desert -- Lonnie Brock [Jan-Feb, 2000] Black Rabbit Productions Navajo Lands Near Page, AZ -- Peggy O'Neil [Feb, 1999] Antelope Canyon -- Peggy O'Neil [Apr, 1999] Antelope Canyon -- Steve Traudt [Apr, 2000] Naturescapes.net Antelope Canyon -- E.J. Peiker [March, 2004] Monument Valey Navajo Tribal Park -- E.J. Peiker Nature Photographers Online Magazine Slot Canyons [Apr, 2002] Grand Canyon River Trip -- Pete and Alice Bengeyfield [Jun, 2001] Outdoor Photographer Madera Canyon Recreation Area -- Jim Burns [July, 2005] Glen Canyon -- James Kay [2008] PhotoFocus National Bison Range -- Scott Bourne and Carolyn E. Wright [2005] PhotoMedia Slot Canyons of Arizona -- Gary Luhm [Winter, 2000] Border to Bortder (Along Hwy 89) -- James Cowlin [Fall, 2007] PhotoTravel.com Monument Valley [1997] Tucson [1997] The Wave and Coyote Buttes [Arizona/Utah border, 1999] PhotoTripUSA Canyon de Chelly -- Alain Briot [Nov, 2001] Exploring the Grand Canyon -- Roy Harrington [Jun, 1999] TravelPhotographers.net Red Rocks of Sedona -- Lee E. Robinson [May, 2007]
To See Other Nature Location Recommendations, Go to Southwest Nature Weekends

California
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Wildlife Locations (primarily) Ano Nuevo State Preserve -- Chris Nicholson California Birding -- Brian Small Don Baccus Klamath Basin - Winter Birding [1996] Monterey Bay [1997] Point Reyes Visions: Guide and Photos -- Kathleen Goodwin, Richard Blair Wildlife Viewing Fauna of Point Reyes Elephant Seals Elephant Seals 2 Harbor Seals Hiking Trips Muddy Hollow -- Kathleen Goodwin Tomales Bay Kayaking -- Kathleen Goodwin Scott Squires Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve [2004] Apogee Photo Magazine "Big Basin Redwoods State Park located southwest of San Jose, California is the best place to find and photograph the Columbian subspecies of the black-tail deer." Andy Long [Aug, 2001] Elephant Seals -- Noella Ballenger [Feb, 2004] Carol Leigh's Photo Explorations California Wildlife Hotsheet [as of June, 2001] Samples from Guidebooks (PDF Format) Bolsa Chica Ecol Res (birds) Elephant Seals Harbor Seals Carol Leigh's CalPhoto Digest: Excerpts from Yahoo Chat Group on Photo Locations [on this Web site] January February March April-May Summer Fall Naturescapes.net Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve -- Richard Mittleman Sante Lake Recreation Preserve -- Jason Vaclevek [2005] Pelicans of La Jolla -- Phillip Colla [March, 2007] Outdoor Photographer Channel Islands -- Sara Lind [April, 2005] PhotoFocus La Jolla Cove -- Carol E. Wright [2005] WildlifeWatcher.com Gulls of Mono Lake -- Moose Peterson Pala Alto Baylands (birds) Moose Peterson Roosevelt Elk , Redwoods NP Dennis Kirkland Sacramento NWR (birds) -- Neil Evans San Francisco Baylands (wading birds, waterfowl) -- Moose Peterson Go To Top	Scenic Locations (primarily) David Senesac [March 2008] Wildflower and Fall Color Road Trips Kaz Takahashi Channel Islands NP Death Valley NP Joshua Tree NP -- Chris Nicholson Mesa Verde NP -- Philip Noll Christopher Talbot Frank (excerpted from Outdoor Photographer, August 2005) Best Califonia Wildflower Locations: Anza-Borrego SP Death Valley NP Carson Pass in the Sierras Owens Valley Lake Elsinore area Joshua Tree NP Other States Organ Pipe Cactus NM (AZ) Great Smoky Mountains NP (TN) Yankee Boy Basin (CO) Glacier NP (MT) Apogee Photo Magazine Alabama Hills in the Eastern Sierra -- Carol Leigh [Jan, 2003] Bodie, a Gold Mining Ghost Town -- Noella Ballenger Cactus Flowers of Joshua Tree -- John Gerlach [Mar-Apr, 1997] Searching for Slot Canyons -- Robert Hitchman [Nov-Dec, 1996] Where To Find Spring Wildflowers -- Bob Hitchman [Jan-Feb, 1997] Black Rabbit Productions Death Valley -- Lee Watson [2001] Carol Leigh's Photo Explorations Fall Color in California California Wildflower Locations Where Bloom in 2003 Samples from California Guidebooks (PDF Format) Filoli Gardens in Woodside Samples from Wildflower Guidebook (PDF Format) Table Mountain Wildflowers Guy Fleming Trail Red Hills Wildflowers Red Rock Canyon SP Naturescapes.net Owens Valley Fall Color -- Tim Hill Nature Photographer Magazine The Flowered Desert -- Bill Jordan [Mar, 2003] Nature Photographers Online Magazine Mesa Verde NP -- Philip Noll [July, 2004] Outdoor Photographer Guadalupe-Nipomo Sand Dunes NWR -- Chuck Graham [Dec, 2003] PhotoFocus Central California Coast -- Scott Bourne [Mar, 2002] Springtime in Yosemite NP -- Scott Bourne PhotoTravel.com Redwood NP [1997] PhotoTripUSA California Coast -- Gary Crabbe [Mar, 2001] Eastern Sierra -- Gary Crabbe [Dec, 1999] Ghost Town of Bodie -- Dan Heller [Dec, 2000] Virtual Tour of Death Valley -- Laurent Martres [Aug, 1999] TravelPhotographers.net California State Poppy Reserve -- Tom Guffey [April, 2004]
To See Other Nature Location Recommendations, Go to Southwest Nature Weekends

Nevada
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Wildlife Locations (primarily) Don Baccus The Goshutes -- Hawk Mountain of the West [1996] Go To Top	Scenic Locations (primarily) Apogee Photo Magazine Pyramid Lake & Black Rock Desert -- Bob Hitchman [Nov, 2001] Outdoor Photographer Muddy Mountains -- Alan Martz [Mar, 2004] Sand Harbor, Lake Tahoe -- Stephan Hall [2008] PhotoFocus Red Rock Canyon NCA -- Carol E. Wright [2005]
To See Other Nature Location Recommendations, Go to Southwest Nature Weekends

New Mexico
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Wildlife Locations (primarily) Bosque del Apache -- Heather Forcier From the Field (Bosque del Apache) -- Rick Hobbs Greg Downing Bosque del Apache NWR [Winter, 2002-03 -- PDF format] James Ownby Bosque del Apache [December, 2002] Gila Mountain Hummingbirds [August 2005] Out of Bosque -- Charles Glatzer Naturescapes.net Winter at the Bosque -- Greg Downing [Nov, 2003] Nature Photographers Online Magazine Bosque del Apache -- Debbie Farrell-Smith [Feb, 2001] Article Gone 9/19/04! PhotoFocus Photographing Bosque del Apache -- Scott Bourne WildlifeWatcher.com Bosque del Apache NWR -- Jim Clark	Scenic Locations (primarily) Great American Photography Workshops White Sands National Monument -- Jay W. Smith [2005] Apogee Photo Magazine Historic New Mexico -- Andy Long [Feb, 2004] Outdoor Photographer Biste/De-Na-Zi Wilderness -- Efrain M. Padro [Dec, 2004] PhotoTripUSA Sand Dunes -- Laurent Martres [Aug, 2000 -- dunes of CA, UT, NM, CO] Go To Top
To See Other Nature Location Recommendations, Go to Southwest Nature Weekends

Hawaii
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Wildlife Locations (primarily) Go To Top	Scenic Locations (primarily) Kaz Takahashi Haleakala NP Naturescapes.net Photographing the Islands of Hawaii -- E. J. Peiker [March, 2004] Nature Photographers Online Magazine Hawaii's Lava Fields -- Gloria Hopkins and E.J. Peiker [Nov, 2002] Hanakapi'ai Falls -- Jim Greenwood [Aug, 2000] TravelPhotographers.net Tree Along Lahaina Coast -- Anil Rao [July 21, 2004] Hawaii -- John Mekula [Jan, 2004]
To See Other Nature Location Recommendations, Go to Southwest Nature Weekends

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Mexico
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Wildlife Locations (primarily) Gary Luhm Baja by Kayak Mothership [Feb, 2006] Nature Photographers Online Magazine Gray Whales of the Mexican Baja -- Gary Melnysyn [June, 2007] Wintering Monarch Butterflies in the Transvolcanic Range near Mexico City (Every year, nearly 300 million of these brilliantly hued monarchs migrate to their ancestral wintering grounds) 11/20/04 Tours Natural Habitat Adventures Kingdom of the Monarch Butterfly Harvard Museum of Natural History Travel Program Kingdom of the Monarchs American Museum of Natural History Discovery Tours Self Travel to All Three Sanctuaries Robyn Dochterman, 10/17/04 Sanctuaries Village of Angangueo -- El Rosario Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary Surf Mexico Website Road & Travel Website Simpkins Website Village of Angangueo -- Sierra Chincua Butterfly Sanctuary Surf Mexico Website National Geographic News Surf Mexico Website Village of Valle de Bravo -- birds, Piedra Herrada Butterfly Sanctuary (newest to be opened to the public) Best January to mid-March	Scenic Locations (primarily) Nature Photographers Online Magazine Landscapes of Cabo Pulmo -- Efrain M. Padro [Jan, 2003] Go To Top

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