photoartflightGull Pond Panoramas
Posted on March 14, 2018
While at the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, I shot a few panoramas along the Wildlife Drive at Gull Pond. The featured image was a 2 shot panorama. Shot at 24mm, with 2 horizontal images, combined in Photoshop. With the featured image I purposely included the empty tree branches on the right to add some interest and some depth. I tried to position the larger branches where there was an open sky with few clouds.
3 horizontal stacked images, vertical panorama, @ 24mm
4 horizontal images, stacked horizontally, @ 24mm
Osprey With Meal
Posted on March 9, 2018
Ospreys are one of my favorite birds to photograph. It is fun to see them diving into water to get a meal. Plus to see them defending their nests against other Ospreys or birds of prey. They also seem to really stare at you as you are photographing them as in this photo. They are very agile in flight which gives you some interesting photo opportunities.
Incoming Snow Geese Landing In The Early Morning
Posted on March 1, 2018
These Snow Geese were coming in for a landing early in the morning. In the early morning, the light was not great, so I was using a slower shutter speed than I usually like. I liked the blur on the moving wingtips because of a slower shutter speed but was fast enough to keep their bodies fairly sharp. It seems to give the sense of movement with the blurred wing tips.
Distant small group of Snow Geese taking flight
Canada Geese On Thin Ice
Posted on February 27, 2018
Along the Wildlife Drive at the Edwin B Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, I noticed these Canada Geese near the entrance. They were standing and sitting on thin sections of ice. The cold did not seem to bother them. They stayed fairly quiet until later when the sun came out more and the ice started melting and they started moving about.
Tundra Swans FlyBy
Posted on February 19, 2018
When we were at the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge in New Jersey, photographing the large groups of Snow Geese, this group of Tundra Swans flew by. Unfortunately all the large groups of Snow Geese and Tundra Swans were very, very far out in the water. Usually you see multiple large groups of Snow Geese taking flight. On this trip there were a few flying in and out, but no large groups taking off all at once. It was still nice to get out and take some photos.
Snow Goose Coming At You
Posted on February 9, 2018
When we were at the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge in NJ, we were looking for Snow Geese. We were glad to see huge numbers of Snow Geese there in multiple locations. I waited for large groups taking off, but they seemed content to just make a lot of noise squawking away.
We did see a few small groups or single geese flying around and even coming right at us, like the featured image.
It was still fun to see large groups in the distance covering a large area, even though we missed the large takeoffs.
Mute Swan Closeups with Reflections
Posted on February 4, 2018
Continuing from a previous post. These are a series of images when the Swan swam up to where I was standing. I had to take off my 1.4x teleconverter and even back up to get the whole swan in the image for the featured image and the first one below. The last two were with the 400mm Canon f/4 DO lens with the 1.4x Series III teleconverter as they were a little farther out but still swimming towards me.
Mute Swans Feeding
Posted on February 3, 2018
We had gone to the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, in Oceanville NJ, to see what we could find for photo subjects. We were looking for large groups of Snow Geese, but along the way on the Wildlife Drive, I found 2 Mute Swans feeding in Gull Pond. With the early morning warm light giving a nice warm color on the White Swans.
They were far out on the pond, but kept getting closer as I was photographing them. It was hard to get photos where one did not have a head under water. It seemed like they alternated, when one was up, the other was down.
Finally got a few when they both had their heads above water. Canon 400mm f/4 DO lens with a Canon Series III 1.4x teleconverter.
They kept coming closer. It seemed that they were not bothered by me being there. Next post will have a closer series of images.
Great Egrets Through The Bushes
Posted on February 2, 2018
I was photographing some small shorebirds when I noticed this group of Great Egrets foraging along the shoreline, coming towards me. I changed my position to get more working distance to photograph them with the lens I had on. Backing up even more as they got closer to get them all in and I shot a series of images through an opening in the bushes. This is the one I liked the best because they were lined up fairly well in the opening in the bushes. And I liked the upraised wings of the Egret in the foreground. I was using a 400mm with a 1.4x teleconverter @ f/8 which softened the bushes I was shooting through. It actually worked out better than I thought.
More Panoramas
Posted on January 16, 2018
A series of multi-image panoramas photographed at the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge in Oceanville, NJ. Shot with a m43 camera @14mm. Featured image was 4 images, shot horizontally in sections, handheld, going from ground to the sky. Assembled in Photoshop. I find the m43 images take a little more care when assembling in Photoshop. Some need a little more “tweaking” or fine tuning than larger sensor cameras. But overall they are fun to use. A lot lighter to carry when you are wandering around looking for subjects to photograph. I still prefer my larger Canons, but sometimes it is nice to go “light”.
2 horizontal shots – stacked vertically in Photoshop. m43 format @14mm
A series of horizontal images, shot overlapping, from ground to sky. Assembled in Photoshop. m43 format @14mm
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