Jay Fleming Photography

Speckled Trout

Seahorse and Eel Grass

Ghost Crab

Nor’Ida

 Thomas Point Shoal Lighthouse

Dirsek Cove, Hisarönü Peninsula

Dirsek

Aegean Sea

Knidos Lighthouse, Datça

Turgetreis

Σύμη (Simi), Greece

Sunken skiff in Simi harbor

Bodrum Castle

Karaada, Bodrum Peninsula

aquatic perspective

Istanbul

Dolmabahçe Palace, Istanbul

Balıkçı selling Lüfer, Yenikoy

Every spring Great Egrets flock to the mid-Atlantic region, taking up residence summer along the marshes to feed and nest. This series of photographs shows life on a rookery during the nesting season. 

All three prints (14″x20″) are available for $200.00. Contact Jay if interested, 410-279-8730

Black Skimmers

Ruddy Turnstone

Nesting Laughing Gulls

Royal Tern Colony

Double Crested Cormorants

Delmarva Rookery

Great Egret

Cattle Egret, Tricolored Herons, and Great Egrets

Great Egret chicks

Brown Pelicans

Brown Pelican chicks

Osprey

Diamondback Terrapin

Sandtiger Shark

Red Drum

Blue Crab

Green Darner

Skeleton beaches

waves

Herring Gull, Larus argentatus 

 Herring Gull eating Cormorant egg

Great Black Backed Gull Nest 

juvenile Great Black Backed Gull, Larus marinus

juvenile American Oystercatcher, Haematopus palliatus

juvenile Double Crested Cormorants, Phalacrocorax auritus

Eastern Brown Pelican, Pelecanus occidentalis carolenisis 

juvenile Brown Pelicans

the colony

Sean Kane and 106.5″ Sandtiger

Jay Fleming and 100″ Sandtiger

Carla Fleming and 79″ Sandbar

In addition to shooting pictures I devout a great amount of time to fishing. Beginning in late May and early June Sandtiger, Sandbar and Dusky sharks will stage at the mouth of the Delaware Bay to lay their pups once the waters reach the appropriate temperature. Along with friends, Harper and Barratt Cullen, and my brother, Ben we have caught and released over 60 sharks in the last two seasons. Before releasing the sharks we collect data and tag the shark. This data (length, sex, gear, and location of capture) is recorded on the corresponding tag card which is sent to the National Marine Fisheries Service’s Apex Predator Program. If tagged sharks are caught at a later date, the data from the recapture is compared with the data from the capture and provides information about migrations, abundance, fishing mortality, growth rates, and behavior. 

2009 Shark Count:

29 Sandtigers

2 Dusky Shark

6 Sandbar Sharks

3 Blacktips

I will continue to update this page as we catch more sharks throughout the season.

Historic St. Mary’s City- 5/14/2009 

St. Mary’s College of Maryland senior Jay Fleming, of Annapolis, won the Annual Student Art Exhibit’s Joseph Marion Gough, Jr. Excellence in Art Award for his photograph titled “Osprey.”  The award is given annually by a committee from the Leonardtown PNC Bank who, along with other local business leaders in the county, made up the jury for the student art show.  The photograph, along with other works from the show, are on display through August at the bank.

Other SMCM students whose work is now on display at the PNC Bank include Kris Fulk ’09, Emily Davis ’10, Dan Bedford ’09, Yujia Dong (Casey) ’12, F.A. Meatyard ’09, Allison Yancone ’11, Dana Gitting ‘11, Sarah Eargle ’10, Neal Stuckenschneider ’09, Laine Donovan ’09, and Bonnie Veblen ’09.

The art award was named in memory of Joseph Marion Gough Jr.  Gough was the president of PNC’s predecessor bank, First National Bank of St. Mary’s, and was a generous supporter of SMCM. 

http://www.thebaynet.com/news/index.cfm/fa/viewstory/story_ID/13231 

Eastern Brown Pelican, Pelecanus occidentalis carolenisis  

Double-Crested Cormorant, Phalacrocorax auritus

Great Egret

Cattle Egret

Black Crowned Night Heron and Great Egrets

Little Blue Heron

Snowy Egret

Snowy Egret Nest

Great Egret silhouette

Great Blue Heron chicks

American Oystercatchers

Semipalmated Sandpiper

Canada Geese

Hickory Shad, Susquehanna River

abandoned Coast Guard Station

Whimbrel

 Osprey

Brown Pelican 

Hummingbird 

Iguana 

Howler Monkey 

Yellow Bellied Sea Snake 

Banana Spider 

Spiny Lobster

Manzanillo-Silvestre