ginger_55
May-13-2005, 09:22 PM
http://gingersnap.smugmug.com/photos/21225630-L.jpg
The lower one was taken in the winter, the one above was taken at a slightly different place, in the spring. Interesting. The winter trees are very green now. That gives me a pretty green background, it also makes the birds harder to see.
http://gingersnap.smugmug.com/photos/17983067-L.jpg
Above, that is an older photo, but that is how it looks. As one can see, the birds are not exactly on top of me, except when they are flying over, in which case there is a canopy of trees so they are impossible to shoot.
This is the closest tree. I used my 300 Prime with a 1.4 extender, I think, probably, I usually do, unless I am using my wide. I am venturing into using my 70-200 a bit here.
Anyway, this is a tree where I should see babies, the heron has been sitting on his/her nest for a month or more........I have seen nothing, except an egg, as of last week. I cannot make that tree look pretty, so in general, I am calling it the crazy Christmas tree.
http://gingersnap.smugmug.com/photos/21625929-L.jpg
This is a cropped photo of the closest chicks, and the only chicks, I have seen there. It too is taken at 420mm, but I can't get that close, I don't think, and I don't have the original on smugmug. They are always backlit as I go towards evening.
I don't think I will do any better this weekend as it is almost 12:30 right now.
Maybe Sunday morning. Walking down the path quite a ways and turning to the rt on a dirt path, I can get closer to ONE bird. And that bird has been sitting awhile, too.
http://gingersnap.smugmug.com/photos/22014333-L.jpg
Ginger at "my place", Magnolia Gardens.
Tomorrow there is a revolutionary war reinactment taking place at three plantations. If I had any sense I would go. That would let me look at the birds for chicks, particularly the heron. And I would be able to take photos of the stuff going on for the war thing, the largest reinactment in the states, supposedly. I am not really into that stuff, but a quick look, a few photos I could post, then over to look at my birds, that would not be bad.
The lower one was taken in the winter, the one above was taken at a slightly different place, in the spring. Interesting. The winter trees are very green now. That gives me a pretty green background, it also makes the birds harder to see.
http://gingersnap.smugmug.com/photos/17983067-L.jpg
Above, that is an older photo, but that is how it looks. As one can see, the birds are not exactly on top of me, except when they are flying over, in which case there is a canopy of trees so they are impossible to shoot.
This is the closest tree. I used my 300 Prime with a 1.4 extender, I think, probably, I usually do, unless I am using my wide. I am venturing into using my 70-200 a bit here.
Anyway, this is a tree where I should see babies, the heron has been sitting on his/her nest for a month or more........I have seen nothing, except an egg, as of last week. I cannot make that tree look pretty, so in general, I am calling it the crazy Christmas tree.
http://gingersnap.smugmug.com/photos/21625929-L.jpg
This is a cropped photo of the closest chicks, and the only chicks, I have seen there. It too is taken at 420mm, but I can't get that close, I don't think, and I don't have the original on smugmug. They are always backlit as I go towards evening.
I don't think I will do any better this weekend as it is almost 12:30 right now.
Maybe Sunday morning. Walking down the path quite a ways and turning to the rt on a dirt path, I can get closer to ONE bird. And that bird has been sitting awhile, too.
http://gingersnap.smugmug.com/photos/22014333-L.jpg
Ginger at "my place", Magnolia Gardens.
Tomorrow there is a revolutionary war reinactment taking place at three plantations. If I had any sense I would go. That would let me look at the birds for chicks, particularly the heron. And I would be able to take photos of the stuff going on for the war thing, the largest reinactment in the states, supposedly. I am not really into that stuff, but a quick look, a few photos I could post, then over to look at my birds, that would not be bad.