Phil Ort Photography

Phil Ort Photography I have been a photographer for 50 years. I specialize in nature, artistic and avian photography

While I’m having down time I’m cleaning up my photos to make room for more. Sometimes I stumble upon photos that some ho...
06/21/2026

While I’m having down time I’m cleaning up my photos to make room for more. Sometimes I stumble upon photos that some how were missed. This Scissor-Tail was missed from last year at Inks lake state park.

These are from the Granite Shoals 60th anniversary.
05/12/2026

These are from the Granite Shoals 60th anniversary.

These are some of my photos from our recent trip to the coast.
04/10/2026

These are some of my photos from our recent trip to the coast.

A rare Swallow-Tailed Kite seen flying over the Lamar sanctuary.
03/22/2026

A rare Swallow-Tailed Kite seen flying over the Lamar sanctuary.

A few orchid photos from the botanical gardens in Corpus Christi, TX
03/20/2026

A few orchid photos from the botanical gardens in Corpus Christi, TX

These are two photos of a White-Eyed Vireo that I’ve submitted to a magazine. I thought I share before our next photo tr...
03/11/2026

These are two photos of a White-Eyed Vireo that I’ve submitted to a magazine. I thought I share before our next photo trip.

This batch of photos is from the start of the Phoenix area. When you get to the lake photos, this is where I figured out...
12/24/2025

This batch of photos is from the start of the Phoenix area. When you get to the lake photos, this is where I figured out the lens was not mating correctly. I was holding the lens and smashing it into my eye to make it work. The second part it after it was repaired.

Enjoy.

Recently, Suzanne and I went to Bosque del Apache in New Mexico and then to Arizona. While at the Bosque, I noticed that...
12/18/2025

Recently, Suzanne and I went to Bosque del Apache in New Mexico and then to Arizona. While at the Bosque, I noticed that my first days photos were blurry. Being that I was shooting with a 800mm lens handheld, I thought it was just me causing the problem. Shooting a 10.5 pound camera lens atached to a 4 pound camera body by hand requires skill and the odds were that I was the cause. Unfortunately, the problem did not resolve no matter how much I tried to shoot with a perfect technique.

When we were at a park in Arizona my camera lens suddenly stopped staying locked to the camera body. That’s when I found that the camera body’s lens attachment plate had become unscrewed from the camera body. It was only a half a millimeter off but it might as well have been a mile. The camera could never focus in this state. I repaired the body but most of the photos that I took were blurry and could not be salvaged. This has been a soul crushing experience. I have been able to get a few photos to be somewhat presentable and I will be posting them over the next few days. Some of these photos have taken hours in Photoshop to repair so it’s going to be a slow process.

Here are a few of them:

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