A Butter-butt Reprieve From The Dreariness Of The Season
I’m not yet tired of cold and snow but this morning I felt the need for some temporary brightness and color.
Category: Bird Photography Methods
A Drama And A Mystery Involving Cormorants, Gulls And A Hapless Fish
Some behaviors I witness in nature remain unexplained even after much thought and review of multiple images documenting them. Such was the case three days ago at a pond near my home.
Northern Harrier In Golden Light
A Golden Eagle In Flight And A Lesson In Depth Of Field
Flawed images can still be of value to the photographer – they can teach us new lessons or remind us of old ones previously learned but temporarily forgotten in the heat of the moment.
Full Frame Barn Owl In Flight
I seldom get an image of a bird in flight that doesn’t need cropping for the best possible composition.
A Landing American Kestrel
Photos of birds as they land are a challenge, especially when your subject is a quick little falcon.
A Red-tailed Hawk And Remembering To Practice What I Preach…
plus seeing the details of bird athleticism in my images that happen too fast for me to notice them in real time.
White-crowned Sparrows – Deja vu All Over Again
Male American Kestrel At Takeoff And In Flight
Because of their small size and quickness kestrels are the most challenging raptor I attempt to photograph at takeoff.
Red-tailed Hawk – Making Lemonade Out Of A Big Fat Lemon
Red-tailed Hawk At Takeoff And In Flight – An Eleven Image Series
I took exactly forty shots of this hawk during takeoff and in flight. Eleven of them made the cut to include here, for reasons both good and not so good.
A Black-necked Stilt And The Quirkiness Of Reflections
We often think of reflections of birds in water as being exact upside down copies of the birds themselves but that’s just not the case, even when the water is as smooth as glass. “Mirror images” aren’t all they’re cracked up to be.
Western Grebe With A Fish In Gorgeous Water
For me the water reflections in this image almost steal the show from both the grebe and the fish.
White-crowned Sparrows And Photographic Tradeoffs
When I have to choose between shutter speed and depth of field I usually lean towards faster SS’s. Sometimes it pays dividends and sometimes it doesn’t.
Loggerhead Shrike, With An Alternate Perspective On The Setting
Super-telephoto lenses can do a great job on the bird but they often leave the viewer clueless about habitat.