Critters
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Bird Photography from Start to Finish
Mon, Dec 14, 2026, 7:00 pm-8:30 pm - Morton Arboretum Thornhill Center and ZoomThis month’s presentation is designed for bird photography enthusiasts—beginners or experienced—who want to improve their skills in finding, approaching, and photographing birds. Join Travis Layton for an evening dedicated to bird photography. Travis will guide you through the entire process, from finding birds locally and while travelling, to understanding bird behavior, getting closer to your subjects, photographing perched birds and birds in flight, choosing camera settings, working with light and composition, and avoiding common mistakes. Attendees will gain actionable ideas and techniques to immediately improve their bird photography on their next outing. Our speaker, Travis Layton, is known online as “Trav in the Bush.” He is a Canadian bird photographer,…
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July’s program will focus on black bears. Presenter Bill Lea has spent more than three decades photographing America’s black bears, gaining rare opportunities to observe and study them in their natural habitat.
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Birds: Why am I always looking up?
Feb 2026This month’s program will focus one photographer’s journey to taking better pictures. Arnold Koenig has been photographing everything from weddings to nature for fifty years. Arnold will share the images he’s taken and the lessons he’s learned as cameras and technology have become more advanced. He will talk about how and where to find birds, how to photograph the birds, and how and when to use available technologies. About our speaker Arnold J. Koenig is a retired electronics technician; he worked in the retail petroleum industry, which helped to support his photography habit. The camera he uses most often is the Canon R5 Mark II digital camera. Arnold’s passion is…
