Daily Bird Photos - No. 9 ~ Fun With Water ~
I've mentioned before that I am not a traditional bird photographer. I think birds are wonderful subjects but I don't claim to have much knowledge about them. I do try to learn more as I go along, but my main interests lie in making artistic images.
Male Mallard Duck landing.
Skimming the water
Birds in flight are my favourite subject. Throw in some water and reflections and I'm a happy man!
A Great Blue Heron tiptoes across the water.
Female Mallard Duck landing.
Another Male Mallard landing
and finally, sometimes the bird isn't there at all.
The bird is merely implied...
I hope you enjoyed these images. Please click for a full-screen view.
Don't miss the previous editions of my bird photos!
- Daily Bird Photos - No. 8 ~ A Canada Goose In Flight ~
- Daily Bird Photos - No. 7 ~ Peacocks In Hiding? ~
- Daily Bird Photos - No. 6 ~ Too Many Herons? ~
- Daily Bird Photos - No. 5 ~ On The Fence ~
- Daily Bird Photos - No. 4 ~ Autumn Light ~
- Daily Bird Photos - No. 3 ~ A Trip To The Bird Sanctuary ~
- Daily Bird Photos - No. 2 ~ Killdeer ~
- Daily Bird Photos - No. 1 ~ Bald Eagle ~
Amazing how you were able to catch these moments. Especially the last picture. Great job!
Thanks very much!
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Those photos really are something else... and the end was just mind-blowing, the detail of that feather in slowly falling in the middle of the air... it feels like you are seeing a movie, not static photographs. Truly magnificent.
Thanks for sharing, best regards.
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I'm so happy you liked these shots! The feather falling was a such as lucky shot, I still can't believe it. Not likely to have that happen again! Thanks very much for the lovely comment and the curation, I greatly appreciate it!
haha! howdy sir keithboone! wow.. you must have a great camera. Is it normally fast enough to catch that kind of action or is there a special setting that you set?
Thanks, buddy! I have a four-year-old consumer grade camera, nothing professional or super expensive like some of the guys I see down at the bird sanctuary. I've had people walk over, look at my gear and kind of sneer at me... waving around lenses that cost more than I ever spent on a car. I use a fast shutter speed to freeze the action. I shoot all my bird photography with the camera in full manual mode, so I'm operating the thing like I did with film cameras back in the day.
It's a funny thing with photography - it's most definitely NOT the camera that makes the shot, but on the other hand, I've got another camera here, brand new, that you could never make these shots with... It's a matter of the right tool for the job.... that plus knowing what all the little buttons and knobs do. I figure I know what a good 60% or more of those buttons and settings are for, and the rest I'm just too old and dumb to learn :)
hahaha! you are so funny keithboone! you take world class photos so I guess you don't need to know what all those settings are for.
That's so funny that people sneer at you because of your "inferior" camera. You probably got it at Walmart for a couple hundred and they paid a couple grand not including the special lenses! lol.
Just so you understand... if money were no object, I would take this camera:
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1351688-REG/nikon_d850_dslr_camera_body.html
and this lens
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/search?Ntt=800mm%20nikon&N=0&InitialSearch=yes&sts=ma&Top+Nav-Search=
which would come in at $19,600 US... at that point I would probably try to strike a deal and get free shipping!
If money were really and truly no object I could easily spend more! That lens is not really all that great, I could find better glass than that. The funny thing is, my photography would go downhill for a while. It takes special skills to get the most out of high-megapixel cameras and I would get a lot of blurry shots until I learned to handle the new gear!
This might make an interesting thread for photographers: if you were cosmically-rich, like Bond-villain or Saudi-Prince rich (same thing really, right?) If you were that rich, what camera would you buy? For birds I mean...
haha! oh my gosh I don't know anything about cameras or photography so I had no idea they could be so much money! wow and that was nowhere near the very best huh?!
Well, it's getting near the top of what a pro might pay, but if you had money to burn you could always find a way!
I agree, that would be fun too!
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Thank you!
These are really great shots. You have caught them all at the perfect second.
The "implied" photo of the feather wafting down made me grin.
Thanks very much, I'm happy you liked these shots! :)
I would be happy man/woman too with these images, wow!!! Outstanding photography Keith!!! Well, I admire all your work; it always blows my mind!!
Ah, thank you Lena! You're too kind :) I always appreciate your comments and support very much!
Always a pleasure Keith 😊
Oh, walking on water has always been my dream! What a cool shot! I can't decide which I love better, the implied bird or JC walking on water.
Admittedly, any of your shots peg my meter. Great photography! Thanks for sharing it!
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Thank you, Denise! Isn't it cool how that bird was literally walking on water? I saw this again recently, another bird doing the same thing. Might have been a goose... They use the tips of their wings and toes to stay just exactly at the surface. Talk about flying under the radar! Thanks so much for the tip!
You are always such a pleasure, Keith.
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Well I do love birds, and photograph them as well. Your photos are just amazing!!
Thanks very much! I just visited your page and followed :)