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Looking back on some of my summer shots. Can't wait for some better weather and an end to grey days and rain!
Just got back from our baby posing class that we had with Beth Jansen in Oklahoma City. What a super time... great photographers, beautiful models, awesome studio, delicious weather and some hunky daddies willing to be photographed (more to come of that!). This was from the first day... just might have to start shooting on concrete a little more often!! What a beautiful set-up done by Tracy... she loves to get these babies snuggly wrapped... and they just love it, sleeping so soundly!
We only said goodbye with words
I died a hundred times
You go back to her
And I go back to black…
Back To Black, by Amy Winehouse.
OK, a few weeks later and I was back at Durikai with a new perch! :) Call me obsessive. The usual suspects were all there but this one showed up for a drink too. There was also a Spiny-cheeked HE but I only got a shot of its rear as it vamoosed and there was a White-eared HE but the shots of it are very harsh so I'll try for better there.
There were the usual Speckled Warblers out the back and a black-faced Monarch and more White-eared HE. It is a great spot but I hope I don't find more days of shooting there! (Until spring 2016 when I know I went back). :)
One of the many things I enjoy about tramping is the opportunity to look back on the ground you have covered the previous day(s).
On this 6 day tramp, we travelled from the Cobb valley to the Aorere valley, via the Douglas range in Kahurangi National Park . Part of the route we took is unofficially known as the "low route" as it bypasses the most difficult section of the Douglas range known as the "Dragons Teeth".
This photo was taken as I look back at the low route. We descended into this (Anatoki) valley on one of the distant spurs on the right and camped on the river flats in the bush. The next day we made our way up the river to the headwaters and bush bashed on a compass bearing to this saddle and Adelaide tarn. This was all untracked travel and one of the better days tramping I have had.
Backing up to get a start for the run by. St Croix River, May 2, 2016
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© Eric T. Hendrickson 2016 All Rights Reserved
Now back on CSS rails, the 2005 leads the detour move South across the CN diamonds in Stillwell, IN.
With this simple trolley we travel in many country. It’s much easier,than you need to wear backpack on your back,specially,if you travel by hitchhiking and walk a lot.
Don’t ever force things, otherwise the image would lose its poetry. Follow your own taste and nothing else. You are life and life is what you choose". By Sérgio Larrain
I apologize for the absence of posts here over the past few weeks. We have been moving, which brings with it a whole host of fun challenges. In between that, I have certainly tried to make it out for some of the more rare trains and leaders that have made their way to the RF&P. On the evening of July 26th, I read that an empty coal drag with a YN2 leader was coming northbound. I headed out to Long Bridge Park, and captured the train at RO with DCA in the background. As YN2 leaders become more rare across CSX, I'll take any chance I can to shoot them.
Tonight was the first time i've been out taking photos since getting back from Utah. A quick ride out to a local field that had been harvested a couple of days ago!
A Carolina Coastal train is headed back west to Wilson after interchanging cars at Chocowinity, North Carolina.
Pero tu cara se me pierde entre las sombras ,
por que la noche es más larga que la muerte.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP3QHxamyls
Atocha , Madriles.
I’m not a hardcore birder, I shoot only when both the opportunity and mood arise simultaneously, both of which does not happen very often.
I remember feeling challenged shooting this bird and as such it was a great experience.
1. Tiny bird, smaller even than the common Kingfisher but way more colourful.
2. This being a Forest Kingfisher, it’s always in the thicket, never in the open. Had to shoot at very low shutter speed hoping to catch it in between twitches just to keep ISO low enough to preserve details. Being as dim as it was, had to also boost up the EV to avoid having to do any shadow recovery.
3. 600mm even on APS-C crop was barely sufficient.
4. Trying to squeeze out as much details as possible. Used normal wireless release via OVF; MUP+EFC; Live-view, none made any consistent and significant difference. This was where I got a little mad at Nikon’s useless implementation of EFC on the D500, even more useless than the auto AF fine-tune feature. What’s the point of putting in features that don’t really work!? EFC in Live-view would have helped but infuriatingly, you can activate EFC in Live-view yet you can’t use EFC in Live-view, get your act together Nikon!
5. Getting the right pose with the beak pointing sideways and preferably upwards for the slightly haughty look plus some catch-light in the eye.
An experience to remember. a most beautiful bird, its red feathers extend down the centre back of its head to the collar in a narrowing ridge looking like its beak with the dark blue patches on each side of this ridge giving it the appearance of having eyes and beak at the back of its head! This is likely a defensive marking. Especially interesting when the Micronesia Kingfisher became extinct in the wild due to introduced brown tree snake sneaking up on it from behind while the bird was totally focused ahead and below as kingfishers normally do.
Shooting very small birds is always challenging as conditions constantly change with the subject constantly on the move while you aim for that perfect pose which can disappear in a twitch.
I toyed with the idea of getting the Sony a99ii with A-mount Tamron 150-600mm G2 after this but gave it up eventually. It’s not feasible to shoot with so many different systems.
Shot on tripod at 1/15s!
Uploaded a much better image (albeit cropped) with my latest post processing workflow.
Pic by tonic
Behind every good man stands a good woman
Though they might be looking a different way
While she's dealin' with one thing
I've got another thing comin'
If I'm lookin' at tomorrow, she'll be thinkin' 'bout yesterday
Back to back, we face each other
Still together all alone
We'd be the last to turn to one another
But I know we'll make it together on our own
Nobody could ever come between us
Or force our backs against the wall
Today we're tighter than I've ever seen us
Bending over backwards together, we could never fall
Back to back, we face each other
Still together all alone
We'd be the last to turn to one another
But I know we'll make it together on our own
Back to back we face each other
But I know we'll make it together on our own
On this Saturday morning I was trying to pick this off between other obligations and only tried due to a large gap of sunny skies between the typical Ohio December grey skies of doom. That left me few choices to begin with and I had this framed up nicely with the mileposts a couple engine lengths back but sure enough right as the train was coming so was a cloud, so a hasty re-position left me with this "basic sunny wedgie" and then I was done - off to meet a family obligation deadline. NS 22X, Holland, OH 12/21/2024