It didn’t take long to find my first two subjects for the day. This first bird is a Northern Parula and these birds are tiny. This bird stayed in the shade of a larger tree so I lowered my shutter speed to get more light into the camera. Even at this lower shutter speed, the…
In May of 2017, I used a really cool strategy that made for an incredible day of bird photography. I talk about this strategy and quite a few other ones in my book: Bird Photography: A Beginner’s Guide to Mastering the Art of Capturing Stunning Images of Birds. What’s the strategy? I used an oncoming…
In the spring of 2017, I was lucky enough to find myself in the Florida Keys during Spring Migration. The really cool thing about this is the fact that there are thousands of birds who migrate from all over the world and end up resting in the Florida Keys. This gives any photographer a huge…
I take my Nikon D500 and my new Nikkor 200mm-500mm to the Stickmarsh and test performance on birds in flight. How did this combo perform? Unbelievable good!
I take my new Nikon 200-500mm out to Viera Wetlands, a very popular birding location in south Florida to see how it performs in less than ideal photography conditions. It was overcast and raining for much of the trip but the Nikon 200-500 paired with the Nikon D500 worked perfectly! All images were captured with…
I head back to the waste water treatment plant in search of endangered Snail Kites and as usual, I find much more. The Snail Kites were nice enough to stop and pose countless times for me and my camera. What an incredible experience. All images were captured with the Nikon D500 and Tamron 150-600mm lens…
I go back to the waste water treatment plant in search of nesting Sandhill Cranes and I find much more. Red Winged Blackbirds, Boat Tailed Grackles, Common Yellow Warbler, Black Capped Night Heron and loads of endangered Snail Kites.
Find out why nature photography is fun, exciting and unpredictable. Join me at a waste water treatment plant in South Florida where I put my Nikon D500 and Tamron 150-600 mm V1 to the test. We went looking for Sandhill Cranes but found so much more. How did the Nikon D500 / Tamron 150-600mm do?…