Some of my favorite coastal images I’ve seen in a long while! Love how the rock echoes the cloud in 1st one, the subtly warm boulders foreground against cool background in the 2nd, and the superb black & white composition.
Bald eagle enjoying a coot for breakfast. The coot was much lighter after take-off than before he landed to eat and it is as if he was looking back to ensure it was still there.
Douglas L wrote:
Thank you very much, Joshua! WOW, what a lovely portrait of the fox at ISO 12800!
Went to Conowingo again yesterday, I couldn't believe it was so crowded on a Monday. But the Thanksgiving week is usually the busiest of the season. A lot of actions yesterday but most of them were pretty far away. We need 100 MP cameras and 1500mm lens .
This fishing action was the closest with the best light from where I stood the whole day, still needed to crop away 2/3 of the frame to get what's seen here.
I appreciate your kind words, Doug! Well, the AI Denoise from LR did a good job in that department.
That's the impression I got from Conowingo. The action was there alright but too far away... Since you are local, you can afford to go there often and the sequence you posted makes it worthwhile.
Trying out a new travel lens, it is fairly small and light. And, yes, I am quite pleased with the results. BTW, these two were edited only using LR Cloud...
Some Top Gun aerial combat scenes from yesterday. The fights were very far away, most of these are only about 10-20% of the original frames. That's why the 24MP A9III doesn't have much appeal to me despite of its technological breakthrough.
Douglas L wrote:
Some Top Gun aerial combat scenes from yesterday. The fights were very far away, most of these are only about 10-20% of the original frames. That's why the 24MP A9III doesn't have much appeal to me despite of its technological breakthrough.
We just don't have enough eagles down here to catch this action. Love these shots, Douglas!
BillinTexas wrote:
We just don't have enough eagles down here to catch this action. Love these shots, Douglas!
Thank you Bill! The number of eagles at Conowingo Dam has decreased quite a bit in the last 5 or 6 years. Now at the peak of the season there may be 100, it may sound a lot but it used to have 200-250 at peak in the past. They congregate at the dam waiting for stunned fish floating near the river surface after they come through the turbines. Often when an eagle grabs a fish from the water, one or more eagles would chase and try to steal the fish from the eagle that has the fish, regularly you see fish flying in mid air and a lucky eagle may catch the fish in mid air when it's falling. Fun to watch..
A few more from yesterday. They are really majestic birds.
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