This afternoon I thought I saw a small coyote from my office window, I grabbed the A1+100-400 and headed out the door. The back of our house is backed up to a small ravine with large mesquite trees, when I made it to the side of the house, to my surprise, it was a small bobcat. In the first shot you can see its kill...a ground squirrel. I missed a number of shots as the focus hit a mesquite branch just in front of the bobcat. Even so, not all was lost, I was able to capture a decent series before the little bobcat made its way back down to the ravine.
A Red Tail Hawk watches me as I lift my camera take aim and shoot. Rarely see them here at my home and even more rare to have my A9 and 200-600mm with me and ready to go when I do see one.
Photo cross posted in the Sony FE Image Thread and taken at 7:18 AM.
Looking at a Great Egret in breeding plumage from behind.
Fairly heavily cropped, tripod mounted 100-400mm GM set to 400mm and A7rIII; silent shutter.
ISO 100, f5.6, 1/100 second.
May 11, 2019
At Gatorland, Orlando or Kissimmee, FL.
Photo cross posted in the Sony FE Image Thread and taken at 9:17 AM.
Looking at a standing Snowy Egret in Breeding Plumage.
Fairly Heavily cropped, tripod mounted 200-600mm G zoom set to 600mm and A7rIII; silent shutter.
ISO 200, f8, 1/500 second.
Exposure Corrected +0.26 Stops.
December 6, 2020
Along Lake Apopka Wildlife Drive, Apopka, FL.
Photo cross posted in the Sony FE Image Thread and taken at 3:47 PM.
Looking at a wading Great Egret in breeding plumage with something in its beak and reflection.
Cropped a little from the left and bottom, tripod mounted 200-600mm G set to 400mm and A7rIII; silent shutter.
ISO 200, f6.3, 1/800 second.
Exposure Corrected +0.26 Stops.
January 6, 2020
At Gatorland, Orlando or Kissimmee, FL.
You make your own luck with preparation. The last few days I have spent the evenings at a local park studying this pair of urban bald eagles. Their nest on airport property, luckily this pond they have been 'sharing' with an osprey, they have been fishing out of here. Today this eagle came by in the morning and we had missed it's dive for its brunch, but this evening, we were able to capture its attempt. I was testing out an A9ii that I just received otherwise this would have been shot with the A1, the A9ii is no slouch haha
