Clovis' 2025 images

[clovishound]

Here are some from Magnolia this morning.


This is a string of a little blue heron landing.

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[Hatchdog]

Isn’t it interesting that birds who look so majestic in flight seem awkward when captured in a still? Sure is great detail, especially the feathers on the top of the head.

[CT_Shooter]

Beautiful work. Great color. Sharp focus, stop action, blurred backgrounds. I especially like the composition and form of the bird's (backlit) extended wings in DSC_3024. Very nice. Thanks.

[clovishound]

Beautiful work. Great color. Sharp focus, stop action, blurred backgrounds. I especially like the composition and form of the bird's (backlit) extended wings in DSC_3024. Very nice. Thanks.

I appreciate the comments. I was actually on my way back to the car and stopped and talked with another photographer on the boardwalk. I happened to notice the (misidentified in my original post) tri colored heron flying across the the pond, looking like it was going to land. I had my camera set for something between static birds and birds in flight and no time to think about bumping up the shutter speed. I was a little surprised to get a sharp image at 1/2000 sec. The new Z8 did a good job of locking on to focus and tracking the bird as it landed. With my old camera, focus on moving birds was hit or miss, mostly miss. I leave my subject detection on "birds" when I'm out and about, unless I have something else in mind for the location.

The subject detection tracking on this camera has settings for people, animals, birds, cars and airplanes. For the first three, it is supposed to lock onto an eye, if visible. It's not 100%, but has done a very good job with critters so far.

[clovishound]

Here's one I overlooked from a couple weeks ago. Edited it tonight. I kind of like the low key aspect. Sometimes I don't recognize an image as being worth editing when I first go through them. Sometimes I go back through the unedited pile and pick out one or two that just didn't speak to me on the first perusal. This is one of those. I'm glad I took a second look at this one.

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[CT_Shooter]

I'm glad I took a second look at this one.

Me, too.

This is one strikingly beautiful image; perfectly framed, and full of color, depth, and contrast. Outstanding. Thanks for sharing it with us.

[clovishound]

I had real problems with the whites in the birds. I gave it a stop less exposure to keep from blowing out the highlights, and I succeeded at that, but they needed a good bit of editing to bring up the shadows and tamp down the highlights in the birds, without bringing up the dark shadows behind them. I believe the dark background is what makes this image.

To put this in context, they had just finished mating, and were a little testy. I don't think the female was too happy at the moment. I won't post the pictures I got a minute or two prior.

[CT_Shooter]

To put this in context, they had just finished mating, and were a little testy. I don't think the female was too happy at the moment. I won't post the pictures I got a minute or two prior.

I just noticed the larger bird (male?) has a RED eye that doesn't seem to be from a flash. I wonder if it happened during their "engagement".

[Hatchdog]

This picture looks almost eerie with the white birds against the dark background. So surreal it looks almost like a painting. Well done!

[clovishound]

The Pup and I went to Beidler Forest this morning. Had a few cooperative birds, and one really unhappy crawfish.

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