Official Photography Thread

[tooblue]

Got out yesterday in the "golden" hour at the same spot, but there is now a little more green there, and swans, and a beaver if you can spot it ...

[swampfrog]

Lovely place, tooblue.

Some more from recent walks. Also taken from early morning, late evening with more dynamic light.

[swampfrog]

Evening, visibly decreasing light as I walk.

[swampfrog]

[swampfrog]

Spent the $100 from last year's local refuge photo contest to rent a 500mm for the weekend. Really need to figure out how to finance one of those. Probably should go with the Kate Kelly model. What a joy to use. Click to view larger sizes.

[swampfrog]

[Copelius]

[Copelius]

[Copelius]

[swampfrog]

Love the composition of this one.

[swampfrog]

Some days suck. So you go to the refuge to drive the loop. On the 3rd loop, it's starting to get dark, but there are a couple of swallows hopping on and off a chain barrier for an access road. Sure why not see if you can catch one in flight? Even though you are using a 2x extender to get to 400mm which often underperforms at flight photography--in good light. You bump up the ISO to 6400 to get the shutter speed to 1/1250 of a second. Sure enough, everything's set and you get almost focused on one and poof, they scatter. You look up and...Boom, that's why.

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[Bo Diddley]

Great shots!

[Jeff Lebowski]

Wow!

What is that red-winged blackbird doing?

[swampfrog]

Wow!

What is that red-winged blackbird doing?

They regularly harass predators to drive them away from nests. I have a series of one doing the same to a great horned owl that will eventually show up in the Oregon tour thread. Other birds do it also.