Woodies For Ya!

[Dennis Kaczor]

Here are a few images of the Wood Ducks as they are back in our neck of the woods again.


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[Cincy Bruce]

Nice job. I have yet to get a decent shot of these.

Bruce

[slpollett]

Beautiful! I just love that first one. We rarely see wood ducks around here, but I feel like I could just reach out and touch these. I love the vibrant colors and the detail in the feathers. Nice capture.

Sherry

[sugarbear]

Such amazing shots! I stay up hours looking at this forum and all the spectacular images that are posted. I hope one day to be able to come close to capturing images like these. I'm looking to upgrade my camera, I have the D50, noticed you have both the D300s and D700. Which camera did you take these pictures with? Can you give me any idea why I might like the D700 over the D300, do you find any great difference between the two? I have the money to buy either one but my knowledge is small due to being a beginner but always willing to learn. I love taking nature, flowers, animals, landscapes, family, weddings, portraits, and can't wait to dive into macro photography! I do love the Nikon line and thank you for any pointers you can give me in direction. Again, these shots are just beautiful! :barb

[squirl033]

that first one is simply fabulous... i have lots of wood duck photos, but this one is superb!

[Mark Edell]

These are sweet! thanks for sharing!

[Dennis Kaczor]

Beautiful images, these birds are quite skiddish where I live.
I love the colors of these ducks.

Thank you for your comments on this series. I have heard that they can become skiddish, but we don't seem to have that problem in my area, and I agree the colours on these ducks are just amazing.

[Dennis Kaczor]

Nice job. I have yet to get a decent shot of these.

Bruce

Bruce, thanks for your comments and I'm sure in good time you will be able to get your decent shot of these ducks.

[Dennis Kaczor]

Beautiful! I just love that first one. We rarely see wood ducks around here, but I feel like I could just reach out and touch these. I love the vibrant colors and the detail in the feathers. Nice capture.

Sherry

Thanks Sherry for the nice comments on these images, and to bad that you don't see them all that much as they are one of the nicest ducks. I'm glad that you enjoyed the images and again thanks.

[Dennis Kaczor]

Such amazing shots! I stay up hours looking at this forum and all the spectacular images that are posted. I hope one day to be able to come close to capturing images like these. I'm looking to upgrade my camera, I have the D50, noticed you have both the D300s and D700. Which camera did you take these pictures with? Can you give me any idea why I might like the D700 over the D300, do you find any great difference between the two? I have the money to buy either one but my knowledge is small due to being a beginner but always willing to learn. I love taking nature, flowers, animals, landscapes, family, weddings, portraits, and can't wait to dive into macro photography! I do love the Nikon line and thank you for any pointers you can give me in direction. Again, these shots are just beautiful! :barb

Thanks very much Lano, and glad that you enjoyed seeing these images. I took these with the Nikon D300S and the 500mm lens. I do have both cameras and got the D700 first and went down to Floida with it. Being a full sensor for birding is OK, but you loose the extra reach with this camera because of the full sensor. I think this is great camera, faster focusing than the D300S for sure, and a few other things as well. You can use this for nature, but if you need to get closer to the subject, than the D300 is the camera with the 1.5 factor for the extra reach and that is why I bought this camera for birding and nature.

So you really need to decide on what you do most of your photography with, and people, landscapes, weddings etc the D700 would fit in perfect. If you spend most of your time with nature shooting the D300 might be the best way to go here. Just my 2 cents worth.

Hope that this help in some way for you.

[Dennis Kaczor]

that first one is simply fabulous... i have lots of wood duck photos, but this one is superb!

Thanks Rocky, glad that you liked that image, I think a lot of us have tons of images of wood ducks and we keep on going back for more and more shots of them.

[Dennis Kaczor]

These are sweet! thanks for sharing!

You are more than welcomed Mark, and thanks for your comments on this set.

[Harryb]

Outstanding images Dennsi. :clap

[Dennis Kaczor]

Outstanding images Dennsi. :clap

Thanks Harry for your comments.

[raptorcaptor]

Nice reflections on the second shot, Dennis! :thumb

[Dennis Kaczor]

Nice reflections on the second shot, Dennis! :thumb

Thanks Glenn for your comments on these.

[Ric Grupe]

Excellent set, Dennis! :thumb

Woodies wait till I creep into range and then mock me as they fly off.:D

[dlplumer]

Beautiful Dennis. :clap I wish we had them here.

[Dennis Kaczor]

Excellent set, Dennis! :thumb

Woodies wait till I creep into range and then mock me as they fly off.:D

Thanks Ric, and here we don't have an issue with them here taking flight, in fact they are all 15 to 20 feet away, and around 12 or so in this pond.

I have heard this many times about trying to get close and when you do they take off, that is to bad. The one thing to try is take un-salted peanuts with you and through some in the water and they will dive for them if it's not to deep and they just may stay around. It does work.

[Dennis Kaczor]

Beautiful Dennis. :clap I wish we had them here.

Thanks Dan, and I agree such a nice duck to photograph.