A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves…
- Ralph W. Sockman.
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Sandhill Cranes were the most significant attraction when I decided to stop at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge during our cross-country road trip. I had never seen them before and was excited to photograph them finally. The plan went perfectly. Even though we were at the park for barely a day, there were plenty of cranes around.
The hardest part about photographing sandhill cranes is isolating one bird out of the thousands of birds. This might be an issue specific to Bosque, but I had difficulty separating birds to get good portrait images. The second issue was the way they moved. They spend a lot of time feeding with their beaks in water and then suddenly look up for what seems like nano-seconds before going back to feeding. I struggled quite a bit timing my images but started to get the hang of it after a while. Finally, the most significant limiting factor was the relatively short time we had at the refuge. It is better to stay put at a suitable location at a spot like this. The biggest lesson for me was that the birds will come if you stay long enough.
A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves…
- Ralph W. Sockman.
|| insta || blog || photostream ||
Sandhill Cranes were the most significant attraction when I decided to stop at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge during our cross-country road trip. I had never seen them before and was excited to photograph them finally. The plan went perfectly. Even though we were at the park for barely a day, there were plenty of cranes around.
The hardest part about photographing sandhill cranes is isolating one bird out of the thousands of birds. This might be an issue specific to Bosque, but I had difficulty separating birds to get good portrait images. The second issue was the way they moved. They spend a lot of time feeding with their beaks in water and then suddenly look up for what seems like nano-seconds before going back to feeding. I struggled quite a bit timing my images but started to get the hang of it after a while. Finally, the most significant limiting factor was the relatively short time we had at the refuge. It is better to stay put at a suitable location at a spot like this. The biggest lesson for me was that the birds will come if you stay long enough.