These were taken at the fishing pier by the lighthouse on Sanibel Island - if you know the area you know exactly where that is. I don't know how unusual it is to see the M. Frigate bird around the island - though I believe it is the north end of their range. I've seen them once before - both males and females - a couple years ago but we only get down there a couple weeks a year. This is actually part of a sequence where the Frigate dropped the fish a couple times and caught it again in the air. Frigates are really incredible birds - D500, 300 PF Highly cropped but the detail still looks good - these are reduced for web as well.
kingmeow wrote:
Great photo! I'm surprised you didn't get any sunspots.the sun has been free of sunspots for a bit now, i always check spaceweather for aurora info, there is also info on the happenings on the sun, here is an c&p from today
"SURPRISE, IT'S A SUNSPOT: Breaking a string of 8 consecutive spotless days, a new sunspot (AR2625) has emerged over the sun's eastern limb. It announced itself on Jan.12th"
Finally some magic lol.
I started shooting RAW/JPEGS and find that the JPEGS are so good I can't get the RAWS to match. Not in a timely fashion anyways.
A photo of my daughter from a recent lacrosse tournament. The AF on the D500 is so much better than anything I've used before. The keeper rate is incredible, and even though the MPs are fewer than my prior DX body (D7100) the effective resolution seems higher because focus is nailed much more often. D500 with Nikon 300mm f2.8 VR1.
