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Two days, 1200 images, 20 minutes of video, and I'm back. I'll be showing bird shots until Christmas!

 

I like the warm reflection on the bird from the cornfield below. I got a whole series of shots of this bird as it glided by about 90 feet away.

 

Nikon D800E

80-400 f/4.5-5.6 at 370

f/8 at 1/2000

ISO 400

Cropped about half-size

Adjacent sky added as background

(Handheld, I might add.)

 

There's a fair amount of detail when seen in Original size. Not the best lens (and certainly the smallest out there among the 700's), but it does an OK job.

 

OH, I forgot to say that I took this shot at the Ladd Gordon Waterfowl Complex at Bernardo, NM.

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Uploaded on December 3, 2012
Taken on December 2, 2012