Wednesday, July 21, 2021
Lightroom Lizard
Old photo, new computer. Playing around in Lightroom now that I can run it again and I figured out how to make a logo watermark. Fancy no?
Monday, April 26, 2021
Wallace Lake
The weather is a bit nicer now and I was able to take the camera out to a new location at Wallace Lake. I even found a few new-to-me birds!
Robin. Toby really likes these guys. I was hoping we might get a nest in our tree, but there is probably just too much activity on our street.
Very rarely I see something that isn't a bird. This is the first time I have seen one of these little squirrels so close to home.
I just love the tufted titmouse. I could sit and take pictures of them all day.
This one is a nuthatch. I didn't get any really good pictures of it.
Saturday, April 24, 2021
Coe Lake
The city nature challenge is this weekend, so I went out to Coe Lake to practice before the big day. I was rewarded with some cool shots.
Thursday, April 8, 2021
Porch Practice is for the Birds
Last year I didn’t get out much between covid and 2020 being a hard year. Today I sat on the porch to try and get a little practice in.
This female cardinal has a lovely color, but is it weird that I wish their beaks were another color? Also curse the fact that the christmas lights are stuck in the tree and visible in the photo.
There is a pair of mourning doves we have seen around but I am unsure if this is a male or a female. I think they have pretty markings and they don't sound particularly sad to me.
This black-capped chickadee could have used a little more light. I'm not sure why this feels so underexposed. Maybe there were more clouds in the sky or something. I honestly need to relearn all of my settings.
Monday, March 16, 2020
Almost Spring at Sandy Ridge
Social Distancing is happening, but that doesn't mean I can't go to the park and look for signs of spring.
Getting this guy on camera was a complete accident. I was looking to take a picture of the nest and missed, but when I looked through my lens this is what I saw.
I am the chipmunk whisperer.
The Red-winged Blackbirds were out and pretty vocal today.
I never realized the killdeer had such weird eyes, or a weird name.
Great Blue Herons look very different in the water than in flight. This one caught a fish flew away with it and then let it go back in the water to catch it again.
I think this is a milkweed bug.
My brain keeps labeling this a barn swallow but it is actually a tree swallow.
There was one lonely sandhill crane
Downy woodpecker
Red-bellied woodpecker
And finally momma eagle on her nest.
Labels:
bald eagle,
chipmunk,
great blue heron,
killdeer,
milkweed bug,
red-winged black bird,
tree swallow
Sunday, March 1, 2020
Bird Practice
A quick trip to the park today to try and get in some practice. There were too many people out where the ducks hang around so I went looking for the woodpeckers near the witch's house.
red bellied woodpecker
red- bellied woodpecker
white-breasted nuthatch
Tuesday, February 25, 2020
Fowl February
My brother got me a camera strap for christmas, but I haven't had a chance to go out and use it until today. It was a bit overcast and I had my iso set pretty high, but I am still happy with how some of these came out.
I have had people make comments to me in the past before that they would rather be in the moment than experiencing the world through a camera lens, but I feel like the lens unlocks the world for me. Even with glasses my astigmatism is really strong and I experience a pretty blurry world. It always amazes me to take photos of things I can only partially see and to have the beauty of individual feathers appear.
Female mallard. Check out that purple stripe.
Canadian goose. These are all over the park but I find them pretty interesting.
Mallard. 90% of my photo editing time is hitting the auto button and then trying to decide which exposure I like best. I think the duck eye is clearer in this picture.
But I like how cool the water looks in the background of this picture.
Another female.
Birds landing in water might be a new photography goal. I think the movement of the water is visually very interesting. I need more practice. I wasn't fast enough.
This woodpecker was having a bad feather day.
Look at the tiny stick! (maybe a bug?)
A more traditional exposure of the woodpecker.
This would have been an awesome shot if my speeds were just a little faster!
See how cool the water looks? The cloudy skies and my shutter speeds were against me!
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