Most readers know that recently I had to send my 500mm lens into Canon for repair. I truly feel lost without it and my separation anxiety has been pretty intense but the FedEx man brought me the cure yesterday afternoon at 1:15.
Persistence and dogged tenacity are often prerequisites of bird photography but even then there’s no guarantee of success.
There’s twelve images here but this post is really about my experience using Canon’s “new” EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM lens in combination with a 1.4 extender (teleconverter).
Bumps in the road come with the territory when you’re a bird photographer and blogger but that doesn’t make this pothole any easier to take.
One problem with photographing bison is that they don’t do anything interesting very often. These big bulls were a bit of an exception.
Most Farmington Bald Eagles are nervous and shy but this subadult didn’t get the message.
Iridescence in Black-billed Magpies is fleeting but quite spectacular when you can catch the light just right.
I carry a second camera and lens combo with me whenever I’m in the field. Yesterday it paid off handsomely.
It’s often a fool’s errand to assign motivation to unexplained bird behaviors so in this case I won’t make any claims. But I have to wonder if this young owl might have been experimenting with its eyesight.
Occasionally I review my recent images and look for photos that I may have missed that hold some interest for me. This is a collection of eight of those images, taken over the past several weeks.
