A few years ago I got serious with my waterfowl photography. I initially made a number of mistakes, read hundreds of articles on how to photograph waterfowl, practiced what they preached, discovered the good, discarded the bad and what follows is my approach to waterfowl photography. Hopefully you can avoid making the same mistakes and go right to the rewards.

You can classify a favorite location in many ways. It may be close to your home for frequent visits, or there is an abundance of wildlife allowing for great opportunities for taking photos or it was the special place where you captured that once in a lifetime photo. You know the one that took your breath away.

For me that location is the Mass Audubon's Stony Brook Wildlife Sanctuary located in Norfolk, MA. It checks all the boxes for a favorite location that keeps me returning time after time.