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I was priviged to watch our resident male red-bellied woodpecker feeding his female fledgling this morning. It always suprises me how quiet the babies are relative to other woodpecker species that visit our yard. You have to really concentrate to hear the very soft chips that the juvenile makes as she begs for food. Andover, NJ
ladderback woodpeckers - an adult male with an immature male. The adult was teaching the youngster to forage for food. In Montell, Uvalde County, Texas.
I love taking shots of birds in flight and swallows are especially challenging as they are speedy and change direction constantly. Years ago on Flickr, l saw a photo of a swallow in flight and that showed me that it could be done given a lot of practice
Birds leave when you to get too close, but I wanted a shot that had little cropping. So, I added a teleconverter making my lens 560mm so I could be further away. I also hid in the shadow of a low wall so I wouldn’t be as visible.
It was a bright day, so I was able to change my aperture to f/10 to get more of the shot in focus and to increase my shutter speed to 1/3200 trying to decrease motion blur. Fortunately, I was able to keep my ISO at 800 so my shot would not have too much noise. I set my camera on burst mode and waited until something happened. Then I got lucky!
Tree Swallow
Tachycineta bicolor
Member of Nature’s Spirit
Good Stewards of Nature
© 2018 Patricia Ware - All Rights Reserved
Best enlarged - minor crop
ƒ/10.0
560.0 mm
1/3200
ISO 800
I am honored that this photo was chosen as one of top 25 photos on Flickr in 2018 from around the world.
In this image the parent Barn Owl has just dropped off food to the young Barn Owl on top of the owl box on our property. The young owl hasn't been fed in at least fifteen hours and it's been screeching for food impatiently every since it came outside about twenty minutes earlier. The owls only come out and hunt (or wait for a delivery) after the sun has set.
Strobist info: Here's the description of the setup that I use for photographing the Barn Owls, and the owl house.The owl house is on top of a fifteen foot pole, which is about two feet in the ground, so the bottom of owl house is about thirteen feet off of the ground. I have one tall light stand on either side of the owl house, extended as high as they will go, and a third shorter light stand in the middle. The one on the left is lower because it is positioned on a slope that goes down from the house. The light stand in the middle is a shorter stand than the others, but it is extended as high as it will go. The flash on the left is a YN560, the middle flash is a Strobie 130 and the flash on the right is a YN560-II. All thee strobes are in manual mode set at 1/2 power. The middle and right flash are triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603 and the left flash is in slave mode and is triggered by the light from the other two flashes. I have a Yongnuo RF-603-N trigger on my camera which is triggered by an identical trigger that I have in my hand while sitting in a chair off camera. The Yongnuo triggers can act as either transmitter or receiver. The great thing about these triggers is that they are reliable, and are about $33 for a pair of them on Amazon. Wonderful technology at an amazing price. They're cheap, they work and they have a range of 15 meters.
Pictures that I've taken of the Barn Owls can be seen in my Barn Owls set. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157630045851110/
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
I love you dad and mom!!!! <3333
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Somewhere in Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom, on Thursday 7th May 2020, at 8pm.
Published with the parent’s permissions.
Notice: Geotags are removed, and the exact location will not be mentioned, for privacy and safety.
About this photograph.
During the Clap for Our Carers gesture on Thursday evening, those two girls and their family stepped outside, but instead of clapping, they showed their support for the NHS (National Health Service) with a live music performance.
As you can see in the photos, one of the girls is seen playing the violin while the other girl does the singing.
I have no idea what they were singing about, nor do I know what music they played. It looked like a slow singing, maybe classic music.
In the tighter framed photos, the man in the T-shirt with sunglasses, and leaning against a car is their father. In the wider shots, the woman on the other side of the road, seen taking photos, is their mother.
You may notice a few other people stepping out of their homes, to take part in the clapping as show of support, watching the live performance.
The viewpoint was from one of my bedroom windows, as I took the photos of what was going on. I later went to their house, to seek permissions from the parents if I wanted to publish the photos, and they agreed.
Why I took the photographs?
Starting in February of 2020, my oldest child moved out to live independent, while the other child lived with the mother, I was finally free to try to restart my photography career, and if needed by going freelance. But only about a month later, in March, the United Kingdom went into a national lockdown in order to combat against the rising cases of the coronavirus, which put my plans on hold.
It was at that time I decided to try to get serious with Flickr, having registered in 2015, but been inactive for almost 5 years until I restarted using it in 2020. I was trying to find photos to upload and all that.
On that day, a Thursday at 8pm, it was time for the usual every Thursday event, to step outside and clap in show of our support for our NHS. I find it much easier to go upstairs, open the window at the front of the house, lean out and clap. From this position I can see other people clapping.
This was when I saw the family stepping outside, and setting up their small performance. That was when I went to grab my Nikon, and started trying to take photojournalism style photos as my skills are rather somewhat rusty and I could do with some new practise.
After taking the photos, I had to go over to their home, and informed their parents that I do photography, and wanted to check with them if I could have permissions to post my photos on my various profiles (not just Flickr, but also other accounts like with Adobe, etc.) The father agreed to give me permissions. I also gave them as many copies of the photos too.
About the subject.
The Clap for Our Carers event was a social movement carried out every Thursdays between March to May in 2020, in the United Kingdom as a gesture of appreciation and show of support for Britain’s National Health Service (NHS).
The idea came from Europe, likely to be either Italy and/or Spain which had lockdowns before the UK did.
On Thursdays, people would either step outside their front doors, or lean outside their windows, and give a round of applause. But some people have been taken to banging pots and pans, or playing music.
The event was meant to show our support for doctors and nurses, along with other hospital staff, but later included our show for other key workers, health services, ambulance crews, delivery drivers, waste collectors, and any other key workers who have to work during the lockdown.
In the fight against the coronavirus known as Covid-19.
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Un flash Yongnuo 560 III à gauche dans parapluie blanc diffusant au 1/4 de la puissance et un autre Yongnuo 560 à droite dans parapluie blanc diffusant à la 1/2 puissance
A flash Yongnuo 560 III left in white umbrella diffusing to 1/4 of the power and another Yongnuo 560 right in white umbrella diffusing at 1/2 power