Oh yummy, Terry two beautiful shots, the light blue Iris is simply stunning, delicate colors, it's softness captured, another WOW image. I've been following your's and others' posts/images captured with the 5D3...I'm liking what I see
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StillFingerz wrote:
Oh yummy, Terry two beautiful shots, the light blue Iris is simply stunning, delicate colors, it's softness captured, another WOW image. I've been following your's and others' posts/images captured with the 5D3...I'm liking what I see
Yes, "delicate" is one word that could be used to describe Terry's pictures.
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Blackbird is another harbinger of spring that gets photographed more than perhaps any other bird in this season. Mostly perched on reeds and bulrushes/cattails. Mostly looking grey as opposed to black.
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Peter, nice captures, your 'Coeur-moron' with it's wing tips just dipping into the lake is wonderful, as is the Blackbird on it's perch singing or calling to whomever!
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Today I got out for a short and sweet flower shoot, with the 100L macro. So here's one flower and one bee, life size on sensor. The flower is known as...
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Jerry-Thank you very much for the nice comments on my Iris photos.
Peter-The Blackbird....amazing. I suppose handheld as well! You are very good at shooting birds. The detail, sharpness, colors...etc...
Here is one from last night...little soft in areas that I would have liked sharp, yet I still like the colors. (5DIII really helps me out in the color area....out of camera for me is always best with those rich colors) The stem is at the top of my hill, and very tall...little breeze happening when I took this. 11 shots.
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Peter, the last shot with the Toronto skyline is one of my favorites of your many masterful BIF images. Cities have to be considered a part of the natural world at this point; after all, we have commandeered a lot of hectares for our steel, concrete and glass nests. I love the feeling of getting far enough away from obvious human engineering to think I'm "in the wilds", and I fight to protect the degree of "unspoiled wilderness" that still exists (at least given a narrow look at it), but it's also important to recognize that animals and plants have to find ways to coexist with the voracious appetites of human society, and in many cases they are surprisingly successful. (Just look at insects and rodents, not to mention bacteria.) Anyway, that's a long winded way to say that I like seeing free flying birds in a setting that is clearly connected to the urban landscape.
(I like the occasional shots of "rock doves" in the actual city canyons, too.)
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Jerry, the best is yet to come: Caspian and Common terns fishing, and then there are Grebes nesting, etc.
Thanx Jess, I fully agree with your philosphical point. Our urban centers have become "natural" habitats for many species. All of that is a part of our planet's biosphere. I do not spend too much time fretting over the issue of unspoilt nature......I am not a birder nor a naturalist......I am just an amateur photographer and a lens collector.
In fact, I have been planning for several years to get some shots of pijuns flying thru Toronto downtown "canyons"....some day soon I hope to do it.
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Peter,
The swans with the skyline BG is fantastic! Truly a memorable piece. Great work, and thanks for the inspiration, I'll look for those opportunities in Boston.
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Yes, boingyman, I really like that field of lupine; excellent work!
I encountered more than wildflowers on my creekside ramble this morning...
Black vulture with 500 f/4 (handheld), cascade with 24-105, and iris with 100L macro...
Jerry
Black vulture
along Natchez Trace
Dwarf Iris (I tried a "focus stack", but it was too breezy...
