Steve Pellatt
Flight to Texas
Howdy!
Well I’m back from a series of travels (Keswick, Pitlochry and Texas so hopefully I can be a bit more active on Flickr than I have over much of the year. My new mancave is complete and I ‘just’ need to kit it out with furniture and move my printer and computer in it then Mrs P is optimistic she won’t have me under her feet as much!
As a number of you know I normally have quite a backlog of editing and the last few weeks has only made this worse! Anyway, I’m not going to complain but please forgive my absence and lack of comments. I won’t say I’ll catch up but I will try to be on her a bit more regularly and I’ll ask for your understanding and forbearance. Retirement is hard work!!
Anyway, decided to skip Lakes & Scotland for a bit for my recent Texas trip. A number of you may know Sapna Reddy as she has a high profile in the photography world and has given up her white gown to go pro full time. I booked myself on her workshop in Caddo Lake, texas after seeing various photos of the cypress trees there. Now there will be a number of photos of those coming but I wanted to start off with something a bit different both in terms of what I shoot and the type of bird it is…..well for us in the UK it’s rather unusual.
As part of the workshop we had a number of boat trips out on the Bayou to shoot the trees and wildlife. ‘Unfortunately’ for much of the time the weather was too good so the light became harsh really quickly after sunrise and stayed harsh until just a few mins before sunset. However, that did mean we went searching for wildlife and seeing a Bald Eagle is something that I think will stay with me forever. Initially it was perched in a tree obviously watching for food and Togs on boats so eventually it thought it would give us some excitement and flew between trees. I was lucky enough to have my 100-500mm lens on and hit the shutter button more in hope than expectation. I managed to get about 10 shots with the bird roughly in focus and decided this one with the wings outstretched and the light on it was the one to post.
It was shot at ISO 3200 so I have run it through DXO Pure Raw 4 and then the ON1 Photo Raw 2026 version of its Resize AI application. I know from some of the other workshop participants that they can take far better birds-in-flight shots but I’m pretty chuffed with it as it’s not my area of expertise and was shot from a moving boat.
More tales/shots to follow pardners!
© All rights reserved to Steve Pellatt. Please do not use this image on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit written permission.
Flight to Texas
Howdy!
Well I’m back from a series of travels (Keswick, Pitlochry and Texas so hopefully I can be a bit more active on Flickr than I have over much of the year. My new mancave is complete and I ‘just’ need to kit it out with furniture and move my printer and computer in it then Mrs P is optimistic she won’t have me under her feet as much!
As a number of you know I normally have quite a backlog of editing and the last few weeks has only made this worse! Anyway, I’m not going to complain but please forgive my absence and lack of comments. I won’t say I’ll catch up but I will try to be on her a bit more regularly and I’ll ask for your understanding and forbearance. Retirement is hard work!!
Anyway, decided to skip Lakes & Scotland for a bit for my recent Texas trip. A number of you may know Sapna Reddy as she has a high profile in the photography world and has given up her white gown to go pro full time. I booked myself on her workshop in Caddo Lake, texas after seeing various photos of the cypress trees there. Now there will be a number of photos of those coming but I wanted to start off with something a bit different both in terms of what I shoot and the type of bird it is…..well for us in the UK it’s rather unusual.
As part of the workshop we had a number of boat trips out on the Bayou to shoot the trees and wildlife. ‘Unfortunately’ for much of the time the weather was too good so the light became harsh really quickly after sunrise and stayed harsh until just a few mins before sunset. However, that did mean we went searching for wildlife and seeing a Bald Eagle is something that I think will stay with me forever. Initially it was perched in a tree obviously watching for food and Togs on boats so eventually it thought it would give us some excitement and flew between trees. I was lucky enough to have my 100-500mm lens on and hit the shutter button more in hope than expectation. I managed to get about 10 shots with the bird roughly in focus and decided this one with the wings outstretched and the light on it was the one to post.
It was shot at ISO 3200 so I have run it through DXO Pure Raw 4 and then the ON1 Photo Raw 2026 version of its Resize AI application. I know from some of the other workshop participants that they can take far better birds-in-flight shots but I’m pretty chuffed with it as it’s not my area of expertise and was shot from a moving boat.
More tales/shots to follow pardners!
© All rights reserved to Steve Pellatt. Please do not use this image on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit written permission.