A few quick grabs from today, This is a white faced heron, they are smaller than the great blue heron, but still large. Probably the tamest of the waders I've photographed by a long way.
Municipal ice show in my neighborhood. D500 in M mode, 1/200s, Nikkor 70-200/4 wide open, ISO 400, AWB, VR. If the spotlights hit my subject, exposure was fine although motion blur could not be avoided in many cases (jumps and spins). If the spotlight missed, I had no usable exposure anyway. D500 AF acquisition and 3D tracking is awesome as we know. All images were color balanced in post by eye.
Last image shows part of the finale. Finding correct color balance is impossible with all the gelled lighting.
One of a peregrine nesting pair at our local library with four hungry mouths to feed up there. Image is not exactly Thang caliber.
That is a 1x-scale crop. The full frame:
D500, 70-200/2.8E @ 200mm, wide open, ISO 500, 1/160s. This is not my falcon rig: I was shooting flowers at the time of this fly-in and had exactly ten seconds to capture the pose.
