The ice is mostly gone from our ponds so I headed back to Jamaica Bay for the first time in months to photograph the winter waterfowl. The west pond was nearly empty and I walked back to my car and as I was packing up two woman were returning from the East Pond. I'd seen them departing the West Pond so I asked them if the East Pond was as empty as the West Pond was and they said there were plenty of birds there so I stopped packing up and headed to the East Pond and had a wonderful afternoon shooting from the East Pond Blind on a nice warm yet cloudy day here in New York City.
Comments and suggestions welcome,
Morris
1) Male Bufflehead
X-H2SXF500mmF5.6 R LM OIS WR + 1.4x lens700mmf/8.01/4000s3200 ISO-0.3 EV
2)
X-H2SXF500mmF5.6 R LM OIS WR + 1.4x lens700mmf/8.01/2400s3200 ISO+0.3 EV
3) Male and Female Bufflehead
X-H2SXF500mmF5.6 R LM OIS WR + 1.4x lens700mmf/8.01/4400s3200 ISO-0.3 EV
4) Diving for food
X-H2SXF500mmF5.6 R LM OIS WR + 1.4x lens700mmf/8.01/2200s1600 ISO-0.3 EV
nice set of pics, morris. i have a hard time getting good pictures of buffleheads. they are very skittish birds. good job with detail and controlling the whites.
volhoosier wrote:
nice set of pics, morris. i have a hard time getting good pictures of buffleheads. they are very skittish birds. good job with detail and controlling the whites.
Thank you Wendal,
Gray days make buffleheads a lot easier yet still not easy
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thedutt wrote:
You got quite close to these skittish buffs! Nicely done Mr Morris.
Thank you Aditya,
Shooting from a blind made that possible
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psharvic wrote:
Well done, Morris. I like how the colors show on the first.
Thank you Vic,
I'm very happy with the colors I captured in the first
