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<\/p>\nYesterday morning in the Wasatch Mountains I triumphed over strong winds, impending dense clouds and an unnecessary road construction nightmare caused by UDOT and actually got a few (very few) keeper photos.<\/p>\n
I was quite late getting to my birding area because UDOT hadn’t marked a road just off the freeway with “road closed” signage which resulted in me taking four, count’em – 4, different freeway exits (one of them twice) in a highly frustrating effort to reach my destination. Finally on the fifth try and after winding around interminable back roads in a neighborhood I was able to get there.<\/p>\n
Thankfully I found a few birds to calm my jangled nerves.<\/p>\n
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1\/4000, f\/5.6, ISO 800, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM + EF 1.4 III Extender, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n This Yellow Warbler with insect prey was one of them. He’s side lit and not facing me but in this case I actually think both of those potential image-killers worked out just fine.<\/p>\n In the photo as it came out of the camera both the brights and the darks were somewhat intense but a little more processing than I usually do on my images mitigated both issues (this is one of those photos that reminds me of why I shoot in RAW rather than in JPEG.) I chose a vertical composition so I could crop to eliminate some cluttery and distracting twigs out of frame to the right.<\/p>\n Though it seems a little early I have to wonder if the bug was meant for chicks in the nest since the warbler flew off with it instead of eating it immediately.<\/p>\n Ron<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yesterday morning in the Wasatch Mountains I triumphed over strong winds, impending dense clouds and an unnecessary road construction nightmare caused by UDOT and actually got a few (very few) keeper photos.<\/p>\n