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Pretty Bad Dad

Pretty Bad Dad

@prettybaddad.com

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Sometimes I click a thing and amateur photography emerges. It's probably witchcraft.

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Pretty Bad Dad @prettybaddad.com · 24m

Every time I approach a gal and start talking, she just laughs. Be honest... do I have something in my teeth?

#bison #photography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #maxwellwildliferefuge #nature #kansas #canon #buffalo #naturephotography #canonphotography

Pretty Bad Dad @prettybaddad.com · 9d

This Gandalf did not want to let me pass.

#bison #photography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #maxwellwildliferefuge #nature #kansas #canon

Pretty Bad Dad @prettybaddad.com · 9d

For @kelseyelagunas.bsky.social, who may be the first person I've met openly enthusiastic about turkey vultures. (Which, to be fair, catch 'em in the right light...)

#bird #birds #kansas #turkeyvulture #nature #photography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #canon #canonphotography

Pretty Bad Dad @prettybaddad.com · 10d

I want to like this image of a turkey vulture more than I do, but since he was incredibly skittish, this was all I could reasonably get from him in flight.

#bird #birds #turkeyvulture #nature #photography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #canon #canonphotography

Pretty Bad Dad @prettybaddad.com · 15d

Speaking of grasshoppers...

#grasshopper #kansas #photography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #nature #naturephotography #canon #canonphotography #insects

Pretty Bad Dad @prettybaddad.com · 18d

Moody grasshopper.

#grasshopper #kansas #photography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #nature #naturephotography #canon #canonphotography #insects

Pretty Bad Dad @prettybaddad.com · 20d

It's become abundantly clear I don't what I'm doing with a macro lens just yet, but I do enjoy some of the results.

#prayingmantis #kansas #photography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #nature #naturephotography #canon #canonphotography #insects

Pretty Bad Dad @prettybaddad.com · 25d

Oh, yes, this fella is completely out of his range. I found him wandering around the north end of Minnesota, just outside Canada. I didn't know what he was at the time, but my assumption is that he escaped from someone's personal collection, a zoo, or some other wildlife sanctuary.

Pretty Bad Dad @prettybaddad.com · 25d

A saffron finch laying a little groundwork.

#bird #birds #finch #nature #photography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #canon #canonphotography

Pretty Bad Dad @prettybaddad.com · 26d

Here's the national bird of Uganda.

He wasn't, exactly, IN Uganda when I found him, but that doesn't make him any less deserving of the title.

#bird #birds #crane #uganda #nature #photography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #canon #canonphotography

Pretty Bad Dad @prettybaddad.com · 28d

Why, hello there.

#spider #arachnaphobia #kansas #wildlife #wildlifephotography #photography #naturephotography #nature #canonphotography #canon #spiders

Pretty Bad Dad @prettybaddad.com · Sep 22

Haven't had a lot of time for shooting, but I was at the local RenFest and spied a Common Buckeye and a Painted Lady. (Insects, not people. Just to clarify.)

#butterfly #kansas #photography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #nature #naturephotography #canon #canonphotography #insects #butterflies

Pretty Bad Dad @prettybaddad.com · Sep 11

Everywhere you go, soldier beetles are just having at it.

#kansas #wildlife #wildlifephotography #photography #naturephotography #nature #canonphotography #canon #insects #parents #kids #soldierbeetles #beetles #beetle

Pretty Bad Dad @prettybaddad.com · Sep 9

Hey, solider beetles, whatcha doing over there? Whatcha...

Oh.

Kids must be spending the night at a friend's house.

#kansas #wildlife #wildlifephotography #photography #naturephotography #nature #canonphotography #canon #insects #parents #kids #soldierbeetles #beetles #beetle

Pretty Bad Dad @prettybaddad.com · Sep 4

Female red-winged blackbird. I didn't see any males about, but sometimes a girl just wants to be alone.

#bird #birds #missouri #nature #photography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #canon #canonphotography

Pretty Bad Dad @prettybaddad.com · Sep 3

An American goldfinch yodeling in a growth of... weed? (I don't dabble, but it kinda looks like weed.)

#bird #birds #missouri #nature #photography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #canon #canonphotography

Pretty Bad Dad @prettybaddad.com · Sep 2

I was done for the day, but this fella landed right in front of me.

#butterfly #monarch #kansas #photography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #nature #naturephotography #canon #canonphotography #insects #cottonwoodfalls

Pretty Bad Dad @prettybaddad.com · Aug 31

A wee predator building its plate for dinner.

#spider #arachnaphobia #missouri #wildlife #wildlifephotography #photography #naturephotography #nature #canonphotography #canon

Pretty Bad Dad @prettybaddad.com · Aug 30

Went looking for birds and found Kermit, instead.

#frog #missouri #wildlife #wildlifephotography #photography #naturephotography #nature #canonphotography #canon #loessbluffs

Pretty Bad Dad @prettybaddad.com · Aug 20

In a kind-hearted but mistaken rescue attempt, a family member brought this lil' fella home this morning. (We'll return him to where he was found so his mom can claim him.)

#kansas #squirrel #sqrlpix #nature #photography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #canon #canonphotography

Pretty Bad Dad @prettybaddad.com · Aug 13

A dickcissel pointedly ignoring me as if I were asking it out on a date.

- Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve

#bird #birds #kansas #nature #tallgrassprairie #photography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #canon #canonphotography

Pretty Bad Dad @prettybaddad.com · Aug 10

You're welcome.

#kansas #spider #arachnid #arachnophobia #nature #photography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #canon #canonphotography

Pretty Bad Dad @prettybaddad.com · Aug 7

One last photo of our friendly neighborhood leucistic squirrel. May he find a mate and have many snow white pups. (But, also, leave our house, fence, and cars alone.)

#kansas #squirrel #sqrlpix #nature #photography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #canon #canonphotography

Pretty Bad Dad @prettybaddad.com · Aug 5

On the other hand, even adorable creatures can look menacing in what I can only describe as a mugshot.

#kansas #squirrel #sqrlpix #nature #photography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #canon #canonphotography

Pretty Bad Dad @prettybaddad.com · Aug 4

Look how smug he is! He KNOWS I've wasted a lot of time in the past few weeks trying to snap a decent photo of him before he flees into our oaks. Now he won't stop posing.

#kansas #squirrel #sqrlpix #nature #photography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #canon #canonphotography