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“Pilings” – Belmar Fishing Club Pier, Belmar, NJ (Canon 5D Mark II, 24-70mm f.2.8L lens w/ Singh-Ray Vari-ND filter, tripod; 2.0 sec @ f/22, ISO 50, 0 EV) “Roiled Surf” – Sea Girt, NJ (Canon 5D Mark II, 70-200mm f/2.8L IS lens w/ Singh-Ray Vari-ND filter, tripod; 2.0 sec @ f/22, ISO 50, 0 EV; FL 140mm) This was [...] What can I say? That title pretty much sums up my yesterday. We had decided earlier in the week that, weather permitting, we would head down to the Jersey shore and visit some of our favorite lakes and ponds in search of wintering ducks and such. Yesterday’s forecast was the better of the two days, so [...] This is another image from the past Sunday’s trip to the North Shore. Sunrise was at 0658. We left home at 0455 and it is an hour and 45 minute drive. So doing the math, you will see that we arrived in that period between civil twilight and actual sunrise. I knew exactly where I [...] 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 [...] (1.0 sec @ f/22; ISO 100; +1 EV) My wife an I made an early morning jaunt down to the New Jersey shore, something we will do often between now and say, mid-April. The area we usually visit is great for wintering ducks and shorebirds because there are a series of 10 or more lakes just [...] Maybe. Maybe not. But I like to imagine it as so. This is an image of an adult and a juvenile Black-crowned Night Heron looking like they are communicating with one another. The image was made at Silver Lake along the New Jersey North Shore. Silver Lake is a smallish lake (I tend to think of [...] This is another of my favorite wintering ducks from along the New Jersey shore. I love the colors and the bill is great but what really fascinates me is their feeding behavior. When on the feed, a group of Shovelers will gather in a tight circle and begin to swim around and around in that [...] as in Hooded Merganser. I swear I spent most of the winter trying to get a good photograph of these ducks. Either I got the blacks spot on and ended up overexposing the whites or I got the whites spot on and ended up underexposing the blacks. I was somewhere between “this porridge is too hot” [...] Here’s another duck image from this past weekend’s trip to the North Shore (NJ) ponds and lakes. I like the Ruddy Ducks. They’re funny little guys that seem to spend a lot of time just floating around with their rather large bill neatly tucked under their wing (sleeping I assume). But when they are awake, they [...] |
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