Painted Buntings
These are interesting little birds and pretty skittish. No sudden movements, or they're gone, even from a distance Painted Bunting, male. Painted Bunting, female. Newton
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My shots of the Jupiter/Saturn Conjunction
Here are my shots of the conjunction. I tried with my 150-600 mm lens and 600mm + 1.4X TCFirst full size images to show what I cropped from Lens by itself: Lens + TC The best with the lens by itself You can barely see one of Jupiter's moons in the sh...
Sweating it Out
Being in the southern hemisphere, our Christmas is dramatically warmer that that most of you will experience up north. One of the results of this that the traditional Santa costume: thick beard, coat, boots, gloves and all, is a tad warm for the ol...
Old Gear Challenge
Every now and then I challenge myself to delve into my personal museum of camera gear and go out to shoot to see if I still have the ability to make an image without depending on the new tech. After all, at the time, these cameras and lenses rendere...
Experimental Fall Colors
Windy day, long exposure, over exposed (Aperture too big) = soft dreamy water color effect
Great Blue Heron Landing
I know that this is just a GBH in flight .... But it was taken with the new Canon R5 camera body and the Canon RF 100-500mm lens and the new RF 1.4 extender. I really like this combination! F Stop f/10Shutter 1/1600iso 6400Focal Length 700mm
Trying to shoot the Milky Way on a very damp night, I got a horizontal line going through my images
I was shooting the Milky Way on a dark and very damp night. I used my Canon 5D Mark111 with the 24 to 105 lens. I wiped off my lens many times through out the night. I could see the dampness on my body of lens and on lens glass. I shot with same...
Here are some shots of agates I took with EOS 70D
The lens i used was a 70-300mm on these Lake Superior agates. I am open to any suggestions on what I need to improve upon. Taken with Canon EOS 70D, lens 75-300mm The first pictures settings: F-Stop -F/9, ISO -160, Exposure time - 1/400 ISO: 100...
Whitetail Deer Pics
Just a couple of Whitetail Deer bucks that I photographed yesterdayCanon 1DX Mark II / Canon 500mm f/4L IS lenscamera mode = manual / f stop = 6.3 / shutter speed = 1/640 / iso = 4,000 / exposure compensation = +3
