Magnolia Birds

ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
edited April 5, 2006 in Wildlife
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Some of these are at, or after, sundown, some are before, in no order.......

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Above, the bird is in the center, I did not want to lose either the moss or the tree, so I left it.

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Above, one blue egg in nest, late.......


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ginger
After all is said and done, it is the sweet tea.

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  • John MuellerJohn Mueller Registered Users Posts: 2,555 Major grins
    edited April 3, 2006
    Beautiful Ginger,
    Love that 1st shotclap.gif
  • ThusieThusie Registered Users Posts: 1,818 Major grins
    edited April 3, 2006
    Wonderful Ginger!!thumb.gif
  • RohirrimRohirrim Registered Users Posts: 1,889 Major grins
    edited April 3, 2006
    Very nice Ginger, I also like the first one, all are nice though.
  • ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited April 3, 2006
    Thank you all: John, Thusie and Steve!

    You know that first shot had kind of a second or third tier status. I expected other shots to be much better. Worked up all of them, and that is the one you are seeing, since the shots I thought would be wonderful, they weren't, and this one I agree is good. I like it, too, thanks!

    Thanks for stopping and commenting.

    Just got back from the vet, lots of medicine for my sick dog: a urinary tract infection, plus.

    thanks again,

    ginger
    After all is said and done, it is the sweet tea.
  • jwearjwear Registered Users Posts: 8,013 Major grins
    edited April 3, 2006
    real nice color G good shooting thumb.gif
    Jeff W

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  • ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited April 4, 2006
    Thanks, Jeff! It is nice to see the color there. So much of what I took was still bare branches.

    There is lots of color in this area right now, it is just about the most beautiful month of the year in a Charleston way.

    Thanks for stopping and commenting, Jeff!

    ginger
    After all is said and done, it is the sweet tea.
  • Scott_QuierScott_Quier Registered Users Posts: 6,524 Major grins
    edited April 4, 2006
    I really like the "blue egg in nest" and the duck shot.

    The blue egg - well, because how often do you see an egg. This is a very nice shot.

    I love the light on the ducks. It's easy to tell this was just before sunset - very warm soft light! Very nice! Oh, and the capture is nice too!clap.gif
  • ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited April 4, 2006
    Thank you, Scott!

    ginger
    After all is said and done, it is the sweet tea.
  • saurorasaurora Registered Users Posts: 4,320 Major grins
    edited April 4, 2006
    Very nice, Ginger! Number 1 does it for me...I love the colored background and the bird feathers displayed in a different way is neat. I also like #3 alot. The lighting is always so soft and pretty when you do those mossy tree shots. Great job as always.
  • ziggy53ziggy53 Super Moderators Posts: 24,187 moderator
    edited April 4, 2006
    Ginger,

    I really like both #1 and #2. I do think #2 might be better with a bit less on the bottom, more of a panoramic, but I like it none the less.

    Is this the 400mm?

    Thanks,

    ziggy53
    ziggy53
    Moderator of the Cameras and Accessories forums
  • riddim_makerriddim_maker Registered Users Posts: 1,835 Major grins
    edited April 4, 2006
    Nice series, Ginger
    I hope to see #1 on a postcard some day
    Russ
  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited April 4, 2006
    Good ones Ginger.
    Harry
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    How many photographers does it take to change a light bulb? 50. One to change the bulb, and forty-nine to say, "I could have done that better!"
  • Dick on ArubaDick on Aruba Registered Users Posts: 3,484 Major grins
    edited April 4, 2006
    Great work Ginger. The first pics is awesome.

    Dick.
    "Nothing sharpens sight like envy."
    Thomas Fuller.

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  • ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited April 5, 2006
    Thanks all, thanks!

    Ziggy, I don't know about the second one, I will look at it. To tell the truth, I had a sick dog when I worked them up, and was fixing to take her to the vet when I posted these. My mind was elsewhere, so I did nothing outside of the norm in the process of working them up.

    Yes, they were all taken with the 400mm. I did not take another lens out that day/evening/night. I kept thinking I should, but I was very lax. Kind of burned out.

    And I was very disappointed that there were no chicks, not more leaves on the trees and that all the eggs I had seen in the past were gone. In fact no birds were inhabiting that area where they had been setting up nests before. They were all in the area where they were last year.

    I was bummed on that.

    Those were taken, lots of them with kind of low light, and I had taken my monopod, carried it from here to there, drove me nuts, and I never used it.

    It was not one of my better excursions.............. I expected to leave early, I did not do that. When I did I was exhausted.

    I did get some interesting, to me interesting, shots of a bunch of Ibis in a dead tree. It is a shame I have not worked them up. I should. They were the most interesting unique thing that happened that night, other than the military planes which I thought were going to land right next to me, on me, bomb me, whatever...........

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    I just grabbed that shot, but in the year I have been going to
    that swamp at Magnolia, I have never seen a plane, heard a
    plane that low or anything like that. We do have an air force
    base "here", but that was disconcerting.


    Thanks all for stopping and commenting, will try to remember to work
    up the Ibis shots.
    All I was thinking of at the time was "egrets, gotta get egrets", but I have
    never seen a bunch of Ibis like that, either. I did break out the 70-200 for that, but it was not effective, and I put it back in my backpack after a couple of photos. It is most successful there at getting reflections and things like that.

    ginger
    After all is said and done, it is the sweet tea.
  • ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited April 5, 2006
    ziggy53 wrote:
    Ginger,

    I really like both #1 and #2. I do think #2 might be better with a bit less on the bottom, more of a panoramic, but I like it none the less.

    Is this the 400mm?

    Thanks,

    ziggy53

    On the second shot, you are correct, IMO, all that foreground is not needed.

    ginger, smile.
    After all is said and done, it is the sweet tea.
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