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On this day I had been invited to visit my friend Barb who lives in the Millarville area. She has many feeders and quite a bit of garden as well as a greenhouse. There was lots to see! The evening before had been quite chilly providing lots of dew on the flowers.
This Sharp-shinned Hawk was chasing after the Blue Jays. There was constant commotion as the Jays chased it around and around.
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I found this bird in my backyard yesterday (10/31) eating a Halloween treat. The prey may have been a Dark-eyed Junco. Unfortunate for the junco but the hawk has to eat. Although it is hard to tell from the photo the hawk was under the canopy of a shrub on a dark mostly cloudy day so the shutter speed was slow and the photos are not as sharp as I would like. Yakima County, Washington. IMG_9526
Sharp-tailed Grouse are frequent visitors to my bird feeder. They nibble on the sunflower seeds that fall on the ground under a big evergreen tree. Unfortunately there is a very domineering little red squirrel who seems to think that he is the czar of the bird feeder and he comes flying out of nowhere to chase them away.
(taken from a window)
Manitoba - Canada
Watched this Sharpie as it consumed a robin it had just caught. You can see the tail, wing, and a little of the orange breast feathers of the robin. Spotted it from my home office window. Made a nice break from work.
for the Macro Mondays challenge “Sweet Spot Squared” (September 19th 2016)
I like a little sharp and tangy taste with my sugar, so I chose raspberries ;o)
Finding and shooting the sweet spot!
I've got 3 macro 1:1 lenses now - but when I started out there was only one to fit my new Sony NEX-6, and it was Sony's eMount 30mm/3.5. That was March 2013, and I learned macro work through that lens for the next 2 years. So that was the lens I chose for this challenge.
I shoot macro in Manual, and have never explored the 'sweet spot' before - so I followed Janet's directions and used Aperture mode and shot all 17 F stop settings the lens has on two 2cm raspberries. I scattered sugar granules of various sizes both in front and behind the raspberries, to give me an idea of just how the overall image sharpness changes with the F/stop change.
Comparing the shots I used Janet's direction again: "You will be looking for the shot that has the sharpest details with as little blurring as possible". I thought it would be simple - F22 is the inevitable choice to offer minimal blurring, while keeping the subject in focus.
But I found a puzzling oddity. From F16 through to F22 the sharpness of the background elements increased, but the sharpness of the 'in focus' elements fell off. I repeated the experiment with a strawberry (a much larger subject) and the same result emerged - past F16 the 'in focus' elements of the shot suffered!
I went online to see if I could find an explanation. And the trusty B&H website came through with an article:
www.bhphotovideo.com/explora/content/rules-thumb-finding-...
I needed to compromise and take 2 or 3 stops back from F22 to find the best balance. There was little to choose between F16 and F18. This shot uses F16. And yes - I did then crop the original shot I used, to highlight the main raspberry, and leaving out most of the background sugar 'scatter'.
I hope it hits the sweet spot with you too :o)
Following on from the discussion Where do you draw the line? I've taken an old credit card as my guide, which is 3"x2" and added measures in cm too. I do SO hope that this will become the standard for Macro Mondays! My 2 raspberries are set on this 'new' format for my regular establishing shot in the first comment field
My 2016 Macro Mondays set: 2016 Macro Mondays
My Food and drink set: Food and Drink
Tigre / Argentina
[EXPLORE - 2014-04-08]
Album of Argentina: www.flickr.com/photos/tabliniumcarlson/albums/72157711999...
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Pretty sure this is a sharp-shinned hawk Accipiter striatus, just guessing. Another possibility might be a Merlin, though this bird's head is not quite shaped right, nor does it have any 'eyebrow' mark, as a merlin might (but not always) have.
I just don't see either of them often enough to know.
This little (crow size) raptor has been hanging around my little pond for several days, swooping rapidly from under cover likely grabbing little songbirds.
We first noticed the flickers completely disappeared from our backyard, including the mating pair, as well as an unusual disapperance and silence for long stretches of time, from other songbirds.
Perhaps the result of this bird taking the opportunity to ambush feed on the numerous little songbirds that have arrived.
Located : Between Kamisakaemachi station and Otani station on the Keishin Line of Keihan Railway.
Osaka, Otsu-shi, Shiga pref.
京阪電気鉄道京津線 / 上栄町駅 - 大谷駅 間
長安寺地蔵堂前踏切にて撮影
滋賀県大津市逢坂2丁目
This was an experiment to see how altering the settings on the camera affected the sharpness of the bee.
YPD51 rounds the extremely sharp curve just short of the switch to the Steel Bridge on the east side of the Willamette River. This undoubtedly has to be one of the sharpest curves on a major main line in North America today. Trains creep through here at a little more than walking speed.
Blending in is not an option for a lot of male birds, like this Red-winged Blackbird. The flashier ones make the best mates because they are better at drawing the attention of enemies away from the much drabber female and chicks. Talk about taking one for the team!
for "The Flickr Lounge"
"Weekend" theme
A flock of 4-5 Sharp-tailed Grouse have been visiting my yard for about a month now. They show up every couple of days to dine on the sunflower seeds that were kicked out of the feeder by the smaller birds. They are extremely skittish and this was taken through my window.
Happy Polaroid Week!
Day 1: Photo 1
This is an outtake from my last 12:12 Men Project shoot with Miao Miao.
Or woman, as the sexes look very similar (apparently the male's bill is longer than the female's).
I can't go too long without posting a shot of the dazzling Collared Aracari - a member of the Toucan family.
Taken in the Caribbean Foothills of Costa Rica during a rain shower.
Cactus needles viewed from above at the Conservatory
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Photographed at my home while snowing. More snow forecast for this afternoon and tonight. Snow results in large number of birds at my feeders. This bird or perhaps several Sharp-shinned Hawks are frequent visitors to my home. IMG_9052
Green Iguana ~ Grand Cayman ~ British West Indies
Nikon D5100, Tamron 18-270, ISO 100, f/8.0, 270mm, 1/400s
Accipiter striatus
This morning I woke up early and though I had planned on sleeping in the cool weather outside motivated me to make a run out to Smith Point to see if any hawks were moving. Smith Point is a peninsula that juts out between Galveston and Trinity Bays. The thing that makes it interesting (at least when it comes to birds) this time of year is that, much like Cape May, NJ, it acts as a funnel that concentrates birds that are migrating south. As I headed to Smith Point the weather was looking pretty dreary and I had the strong feeling that I was making a mistake going but I decided to press on and take my chances on the weather. When I arrived I was pleased that it was not raining and there were some raptors moving. Most of the birds I saw were Sharp-shinned Hawks like this one and I was delighted to see a couple come close in the early morning light.
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