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Cinnamon Teals are such beautiful ducks, and I've taken many shots of them, usually from such a great distance that I haven't posted any of them.
Some ducks were sleeping nearby the pond where I was shooting today, and I was pleasantly surprised to see one was a Cinnamon Teal. I wanted to get some nice shots of him swimming so I decreased my shutter speed to 1/1250 to bring out more detail in the darker colors.
But then he decided to fly. They are so fast that I didn't have time to increase my shutter speed. I just got lucky that this was in focus. He's one pretty duck!
Cinnamon Teal
Anas cyanoptera
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This photo was taken after dinner one evening on our recent New Zealand Spring Workshop, after a huge day in the canyons & waterfalls we snuck out along the lake edge near Queenstown to have a crack at these mini waves.
It’s a demonstration of how easily you can use moving water as a strong & impactful foreground in a grand landscape.
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I've never really had much luck with Orange Tips until our weekend visit to Cerne Abbas. They were so well behaved in the cool conditions I had time for a few lens changes.
Back Garden - after photographing this guy on Saturday, I watched him go to roost on the Weigela. Knowing it was going to be frosty the next morning I got up early to try to get some images with frost or dew - he was still there, but he must have been sheltered under the leaf, as I can only see the frost on the Weigela.
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Kansas City Southern's Business train is southbound on the former KCS now CPKC's Pittsburg Subdivision passing through an S-Curve just south of Richards Missouri. The train running under CPKC Symbol D40B-13 and led by KCS 1, an EMD FP9, is heading back home to Shreveport Louisiana after spending the last few days in Kansas City Missouri doing corporate events in the area.
After finding this train in Cleveland Missouri right as the sun was raising above the horizon and shooting it for the first time just south of Amsterdam Missouri the real chase began. Trying to get ahead of this train on unfamiliar territory was quite the challenge, but nothing the Nomad couldn't handle. After getting ahead of the train somewhere around Hume MO we felt we had some time to do some quick drive by scouting of some potential shots, but all were still to shadowed this early in the morning. But as we rolled through just south of Richards MO we came across a nicely lit slight S-Curve and decided this would be the best shot for the time being, since we knew the train would be showing up momentarily. About 30 seconds after the vehicle was put in park this shot was taken, then the chase continued south for another 8 hours through Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and Arkansas.
Little Blue Heron [Egretta caerulea]
Ten Thousand Islands National Wildlife Refuge
Collier County, Florida
1682*
2 more photos of orange tip butterflies seen yesterday.
The only flowers that any settled on yesterday.
This fellow thought that he could put his bike's kickstand down and the massive weight he was moving about wouldn't turn his bike into an ice cream trebuchette...he was wrong.
Martyr's Park (LieShiLingYuan)
Guangzhou, China
Yellow flowers cover the golden willows (Salix alba ‘Vitellina’) along Silver Tip Creek east of Belfry in Carbon County, Montana. A variety of white willow, the golden willow grows new stems that are a bright golden color. This bright color makes these trees stand out in the winter. In the spring slim, cylindrical, yellow flower clusters called catkins cover the trees as seen in this photo. These yellow flowers will give way to green leaves as the summer approaches. Golden willows are not native to Montana and Wyoming but were introduced by settlers who used them as windbreaks and shade trees. They escaped cultivation and naturalized across the area.
References:
www.ag.ndsu.edu/trees/handbook/th-3-139.pdf
www.gardeningknowhow.com/ornamental/trees/willow/golden-w...
After leaving Chambers Farm Wood I popped into this small reserve just to see what might be about. My main target was dragonflies but it turned out that my highlight was seeing this orange tip visiting a flower.
There are several peaks south east of Silver Lake, near Hope, BC. In succession, going south, they are Mount Grant, Eaton Peak, Mount Green, and eventually Silver Tip (among others).
Source Images:
IMG_1961.CR2 (Av: F6.4; Tv: 1/332 sec.; ISO: 1000; FL: 35.0 mm)
IMG_1962.CR2 (Tv: 1/21 sec.)
IMG_1960.CR2 (Tv: 1/83 sec.)
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Fusion F.2 (HDR; Mode 1)