Great Cattle White Egret Osprey Stork.

Osprey Whisperer

Shooting has been slow of late. The daily thunderstorms, high temps and harsh light of the Florida summer sun have limited production of images. This coupled with the fact that many birds take a summer vacation (with the exception of the egrets and ospreys)......has made for slim pickin's and limited images.

I worked ups some images and reworked others and will continue to do so until things pick up again in another couple months.


The usual suspects. Best viewed on my monitor...or on a Wide screen ...wide gamut 1920 x 1200 monitor in Adobe RGB on an appropriate color space recognizable web browser. :scratch

Thanks for looking.

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chuckinsocal

Hey Mike,

Now you've gone and put my egrets to shame!

Birds landing are all so cool ... some are so graceful while others look like they're are gonna crash land ... but they are all good.

Very nice work!

dbaker1221

excellent set Mike!!

bhowdy

Wonderful set ... great way to stir the summer doldrums! Thanks for sharing

WildWally

# 11 is my favorite !!!
Some tough exposures you had , and did well !!!!

Maestro

All are very nice bifs showing great action and poses but the ospreys, the brown pellie in flight and the wood storks stand out to me.

Osprey Whisperer

Thanks folks. Appreciate you all taking the time to look and comment.

Ric Grupe

Best viewed on my monitor...or on a Wide screen ...wide gamut 1920 x 1200 monitor in Adobe RGB on an appropriate color space recognizable web browser.

Well they look okay on my crappy old Sony 23" at 1920 x 1200.rofl

As for the browser...I had and dumped FF3...back to FF2. Too many add-ons that I like don't work with 3 yet. So color space recognition will have to wait.

Osprey Whisperer

Ric Grupe wrote:

Well they look okay on my crappy old Sony 23" at 1920 x 1200.rofl

As for the browser...I had and dumped FF3...back to FF2. Too many add-ons that I like don't work with 3 yet. So color space recognition will have to wait.

I was using FF3 for a bit...but despite having color space recognition activated..things looked weird...or at least different. I did a screen capture of the same image viewed on different browsers and PSCS2 and they all looked different. Says something about color space, monitors, browsers and eyes. . Kind of difficult to comment on color/saturation etc. with so many different variables. Have to take the comments with a grain of salt as well. Don't comment on color/contrast/brightness too often either. WHo's to say what is correct. Composition now... hehe

coldclimb

All of these are totally awesome! Very nice work!

raptorcaptor

Great set Mike!

Osprey Whisperer

Thanks CC & Glenn. Appreciate the feedback.

Harryb

Great seeing your images again Mike. Outstanding set.

Ric Grupe

Bird Man Photographer wrote:

Kind of difficult to comment on color/saturation etc. with so many different variables. Have to take the comments with a grain of salt as well. Don't comment on color/contrast/brightness too often either. WHo's to say what is correct.

I know this...but for some reason tend to think that my setup is correct and shoot my mouth off anyway!:D Thanks for pointing this out, Mike.

Giphsub

These are all spectacular shots Mike! Love that cormorant (??) shot

Osprey Whisperer

Thanks Harry & Mike. Appreciate you taking the time to look and comment.

That's human nature...Ric. My monitor is ALWAYS correct and can beat up your monitor.