My wife and I stopped by one of our favorite local city parks this morning in search of some birds. We know this park well and know that it is not at all unusual for Chickadees, Titmice, and Nuthatches to come eat out of your hand and other birds (White Throat Sparrows, Cardinals and Jays) [...]
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January 2010 Version Above/June 2009 Version Below RAZORBILLS ABOVE/PUFFINS BELOW January 2010 Version Above/June 2009 Version Below Over the past several years I upgraded to Photoshop CS4, added then upgraded Lightroom, added plug-ins like Neat Image and the complete Topaz Suite, none of these has impressed me as much as the Nik Software Complete Collection. For those of [...] How about something a little different. Two of my favorite ducks – the Ruddy Duck and The Hooded Merganser. I love them both! Matter of fact, I spent a couple of hours this morning just sitting on the bank of a lake down on New Jersey’s North Shore watching these guys do their thing… and [...] (1/1250 sec @ f/7.1; ISO 400; 0 EV) My wife and I took a trip down to the North Shore area of the New Jersey coast this morning. We covered the inland lakes from Little Silver Lake in Point Pleasant Beach up to Fletcher Lake in Bradley Beach. For those of you unfamiliar with the area [...] (1/2000 sec @ f/5.6; ISO 400; 0 EV; Sunny WB; Natural light) … as in the small falcon and not the magician. Saturday, we took a ride to the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge in Brigantine, NJ. It is a great location for migrating and wintering birds and is located in the wetlands and back bays [...] (1/4000 sec @ f/7.1; ISO 640 (I could have dropped this down); 0 EV; Sunny WB; natural light) The title sort of says it all. This is a juvenile Semipalmated Plover, one of many I watched racing back and forth along North Beach. The hard part was keeping any one of them in focus while getting [...] (1/2500 sec @ f/5.6; ISO 640; 0 EV; Sunny WB; natural light) It seems these days that I’ve got to get up pretty early in the morning to be able to get out and do some photography. Today we were up at 0345 and on our way by 0445. We arrived at Sandy Hook (NJ) at [...]
(1/4000 sec @ f/5.6; ISO 400; 0 EV; Natural light; Focal length 600mm ) This is another bird image from yesterday but from a different location – Green Pond in Bethlehem, Pa. As we drove by, I spot two Egrets on a snag on the far side of the pond. I parked the car and grabbed [...] (1/1600 sec @ f/5.6; ISO 400; -1/3 EV; Focal length 600mm) My wife and I took a short trip to a local state park this morning in search of some early migrating birds. I had heard that the Ruby-throated Hummingbirds were starting to gang up in preparation for their trip south. Sure enough as we walked [...] (1/1000 sec @ f/5.6; ISO 400; +2/3 EV) OK, one more bird image from our weekend trip to Sandy Hook, NJ. There are several nesting platforms for Osprey scattered throughout the area and it seems there was a nest on almost every one. This particular nest had two young Osprey that would poke their heads up [...] |
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