You know, poetic license is all well and good, but you’d think photographers could be more specific and descriptive. The periods where the sun is low on the horizon are usually called the “golden hours,” but the colors are often not just gold, and spend more time in the various orange hues than yellow […]
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June 29th, 2020 | Tags: Ardea herodias, black vulture, Coragyps atratus, golden hour, great blue heron, Jordan Lake, long-jawed orb weavers, osprey, Pandion haliaetus, sunrise, Tetragnatha | Category: Nature, Photography |
 Leave a commentBoy, howdy, we got birds These are actually from several different shooting sessions, and the first here is from May, a grab shot as a red-shouldered hawk (Buteo lineatus) cruised by near the sun – I just liked how the feathers turned out, though this gives a rotten impression of the actual coloration. I’ve […] June 15th, 2020 | Tags: Ardea herodias, black vulture, brown-headed nuthatch, Buteo lineatus, Cathartes aura, eastern bluebird, great blue heron, Jordan Lake, osprey, Pandion haliaetus, people stop me in the street no lie, red-shouldered hawk, Sialia sialis, Sitta pusilla, turkey vulture | Category: Nature, Photography |
Leave a commentDon’t ask me why, because I could have done this at any time, but putting together these ‘On this date’ posts serves as a reminder of what was going on in my life at times past, and it’s fun to find little gems to feature. The image above is used in several of my […] May 6th, 2020 | Tags: Ardea herodias, great blue heron, Indian River Lagoon, infrared photography, Jordan Lake, sunset | Category: Nature, Photography |
Leave a comment… or something like that. It’s end-of-month abstract time, is what I’m saying. Our abstract here is a great blue heron (Ardea herodias) that I’d waited until the light was bad so the shutter would drag, and captured it on takeoff – this was all carefully planned to appear like impressionist brush strokes, y’ […] This will be the first of two posts about recent photos – they were far enough apart thematically, and I’ve been slow in posting anyway, so I’m breaking them up even though they will likely post within hours of one another (and before the next ‘On This Date’ entry.) Yesterday, Mr Bugg wanted to […] In past years I’ve done various exercises like (what I considered) my best photos of the month, or a featured unused image, and jazz like that, so this year I decided to do something a little different for the year-end stuff (or should it be the year-beginning stuff? This is far too confusing for […] Okay, technically, these are all fall photos, because they were taken before December 21, and because we’ve really only had a couple of overnight frosts while still having days with decent temperatures, but it looks like North Carolina winter around here, and the critters are largely behaving as if it is, so it counts […] There is a large number of people and sources claiming today is Turkey Day, and so I got an early start and went out to the nearby pond to chase pics, hoping to expand my turkey images, which are fairly sparse. Alas, none of these sources seems to have the faintest clue, because there […] I am presently deep within an investigation: what exactly is causing the autofocus on the Tamron 150-600 to be so undependable? Another outing chasing birds on Jordan Lake produced far too many images where focus wasn’t anywhere near where it was supposed to be, and I had made it a point to try and […] |
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