While waiting for this marmot to turn my way (I’m positioned more to the right) and struggling to handhold my 600mm telephoto lens for the past 5 minutes, my wife is firing away her compact camera with a big smile. She already knows that she’s got the best picture of the day without breaking a sweat... Yep, it’s not all about the gear my friends
onegreatcity wrote:
Love the contributions coming in, please share more!
I struggled mightily with selecting an image from the 2nd quarter. I shot my first ever Belted Kingfisher (I'd never seen one before that day) and captured what is likely my favourite Red Wing Blackbird image ever. There were other new bird species and a family of beavers that let me get incredibly close. Always a story, right?
Anyway, here's my pick from May, 2015. This Great Horned Owl returned home with food for one of it's 3 babies. I have literally hundreds of photos of this family at various stages but this feeding sequence was entirely new for me...
Canon 1DIV, Sigma 150-600mm
600mm, ISO 1250, f/8, 1/60th, handheld, very small crop, perhaps 15%
The meal was a Virginia Rail. The parent (not good at determining male or female) flew off in low evening light and returned 10 minutes later, laden with a fresh kill. This is also the first and only time I've seen a Virginia Rail.
Do we need more insects? I've got a million bird images but this macro caught my eye in the third quarter. Got lucky with a patch of matching yellow floral as a backdrop...
