Greg Shchepanek

 Popular Photography It is always a great pleasure to win competitions or get your photo published be it in a magazine, website, social media campaign or just featured along with your name. I find it mind blowing   when they go  viral  and move like a shooting star through the internet. I like to enter photo competitions that is why I don't post-process editing and retouching on any of my photos. Most competitions ask that you don't enter manipulated photos, you need to let the camera do its job. I recently won first prize in a competition called  Nature's Camouflage  where I entered a photograph that was taken with my first digital camera purchase  Panasonic DMC-ZS20 .  The photograph that came in first place was of a frog, one of my favourite subjects, immersed in duckweed and water vegetation : Northern Green Frog  ( Lithobates clamitans melanota ) Baie de les grenouilles, Lac Saint-François National Wildlife Area, Quebec, Canada. Ram...

Snowshoe Hare Featuring a Snowshoe Hare ( Lepus americanus ) grazing the springtime grass at Shirleys Bay, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. This is my most popular video that I created on YouTube with 337 views and eight likes. It is very hard to keep the subject in focus, but over time I will get better and it is keeping the camera steady. I think I shot this using my Nikon Coolpix A900 but it could be very well my Canon EOS M100 seeing that I more commonly use the Canon. I do hope I shot this in 4K but I am not a seasoned videographer so I am still goofing around when it comes to video.  Now you can tell that this is probably the Nikon due to the quality of the video. The top video is much more clearer and there is a format difference that is very visible. I shot this video on the Jack Pine Trail and you can see it was later in the springtime due to the hare's colouration.  To see all my videos please check out :  My videos : https://www.youtube.com/@gmspanek/videos