Was a nice sunny morning here in NW Louisiana and fortunate to find a little variety.
All ISO 800, MKIIN, 400 w/1.4X tc, saved for web 50% quality so the file sizes are quite small

#1 Look back fro a little Pectoral Sandpiper

wow, nice bag O birds Dave! #1 & #4 are my favs!
Nice work,
Rob

Beauties Dave. Is it must me or am I seeing just a little better dynamic range in your images? Love the piper shots and Mr. Ibis and cute take on the good morning BCNH.

Ken

Rob McKay wrote:
wow, nice bag O birds Dave! #1 & #4 are my favs!
Nice work,
Rob
Hey thanks Rob, it is so nice to see birds again

Mr Zoom wrote:
Beauties Dave. Is it must me or am I seeing just a little better dynamic range in your images? Love the piper shots and Mr. Ibis and cute take on the good morning BCNH.
Ken

Thank you sir.......I have been trying to find the missing links in pp and guess it's showing.
Thanks for noticing Ken

Excellent series Dave .... ISO 800? Very clean....

Very nice Dave. Really enjoyed the Ibis.

Jason-

Very nice series. I like both #3 and #5 a lot.

Dave, these are great! I am liking your new equipment, and I'll bet you are too!
#4 is pretty darn cool, and I like the Ibis--something we don't have here in the PNW

Great series Dave. All of the Ibis shots are spectacular, especially the first. Nice work!

Gene

Dave,

These are all very special. I enjoyed each one. I'd be glad to take even one as nice. How do you get so close? The pectoral sandpiper is super - great poses and color. I saw one of these for the first time this week, and with my 500 and extender I wasn't this close.

Love the light on #2 - ibis. No. 3 is really sharp -- wow! Thanks for sharing all of these.

Weeeeeell Dave - wow, these are super. Thanks for these. Just terrific, and go bring us more!!
Susan

This is a very fine set of images, Dave. I like them all, particularly the last one.
I'm also sure that the Juvie Yellow Crown is actually saying: "Dave, I caught a fish this big this morning" Thanks for sharing,
Socrate

Dave, I just bought a new monitor and a lot of these shots look overexposed. I would sincerely appreciate knowing if I need to calibrate. I've never before seen anything overexposed from your shots, so I'm a bit concerned about what I'm seeing. All fabulous shots, but I need some help with exposure because of my new monitor.

Alex Paul wrote:
Excellent series Dave .... ISO 800? Very clean....
Thanks Alex....Neat Image cleans 'em up a bit

elbmuh wrote:
Very nice Dave. Really enjoyed the Ibis.
Jason-
Thanks Jason, the ibis will be moving on soon

incognito89x wrote:
Very nice series. I like both #3 and #5 a lot.
very much appreciate the comment, thank you

Herderdog wrote:
Dave, these are great! I am liking your new equipment, and I'll bet you are too!
#4 is pretty darn cool, and I like the Ibis--something we don't have here in the PNW

Thanks so much Bonnie. I tried sending an ibis up that way to Maggie, but it escaped and flew back

GeneO wrote:
Great series Dave. All of the Ibis shots are spectacular, especially the first. Nice work!
Gene
Thank you sir, I wanna come to the windy city for lessons

JJBub wrote:
Dave,
These are all very special. I enjoyed each one. I'd be glad to take even one as nice. How do you get so close? The pectoral sandpiper is super - great poses and color. I saw one of these for the first time this week, and with my 500 and extender I wasn't this close.
Love the light on #2 - ibis. No. 3 is really sharp -- wow! Thanks for sharing all of these.

Thanks a bunch Cris. I usually shoot from my van window and it works quite well...doesn't scare the birds. Today I was on my belly for a while, but not real great subjects.

And I crop in pp.....do what I have to


suemcc wrote:
Weeeeeell Dave - wow, these are super. Thanks for these. Just terrific, and go bring us more!!
Susan
Thank you so much Susan.....you are one of my inspirations you know!!

Norm, #3 and #7 have pretty good detail in the whites on my monitor.
Look at this, can you see 251 and 253 off white/gray distinctly?

Dave, it's my monitor, I'm working it out

Very nice set of shots!

Hatch

Look like a great Sat. AM for you Dave! How is the new "rig" working out? Bob

Dave, good shots. I like them all but #7 seems to pop but maybe its because I know you had to get out of the van to take it :-)