Ssssh!!! Nick is sleeping!

HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
edited February 13, 2008 in Wildlife
Hi Y'all,

Nick (Gluwater) is sleeping so I'm gonna do some fast processing here and try not to wake the lad up. He does look adorable, tight asleep, snuggled up against his camera in his Spiderman underoos.

The mornings have been very nice.

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We caught some nice spoonbill action
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the usual characters have made appearances too
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a juvenile caracara has been a big hit
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AlexF, his nose must be sore after a day of shooting
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Billw wondering where the birds are
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John Young
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my buddy, Trish
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we are having a great time, wish y'all could be here. :wave
Harry
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  • Ann McRaeAnn McRae Registered Users Posts: 4,584 Major grins
    edited February 5, 2008
    TELL THE BOY TO GET HIS BE-HIND OUT OF BED NOW! SLACKER!

    Great, great shots Harry! What beautiful morning light!

    Lovely portrait of Trish!

    Say hi to everyone,

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  • schmooschmoo Registered Users Posts: 8,468 Major grins
    edited February 5, 2008
    It totally looksl ike a prehistoric wonderland, where you are.

    Sounds like a great time... and give Nick a smack hello for me! :D
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  • swintonphotoswintonphoto Registered Users Posts: 1,664 Major grins
    edited February 5, 2008
    I always love your posts, but these first three shots are even more spectacular than usual. My flat ol' Kansas just doesn't look like that...
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  • JusticeiroJusticeiro Registered Users Posts: 1,177 Major grins
    edited February 5, 2008
    swintonphoto wrote:
    I always love your posts, but these first three shots are even more spectacular than usual. My flat ol' Kansas just doesn't look like that...

    Those spoonbill shots are really great Harry. Where did you shoot these?
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited February 5, 2008
    Ann McRae wrote:
    TELL THE BOY TO GET HIS BE-HIND OUT OF BED NOW! SLACKER!

    Great, great shots Harry! What beautiful morning light!

    Lovely portrait of Trish!

    Say hi to everyone,

    Ann

    Thanks Ann and I'm trying to get his butt moving but it ain't easy. I'll pass your hi along to the folks.
    Harry
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited February 5, 2008
    schmoo wrote:
    It totally looksl ike a prehistoric wonderland, where you are.

    Sounds like a great time... and give Nick a smack hello for me! :D

    Its really fantastic being there at sunrise on a weekday morning. You are usually the only person there and its just other wordly with the ground fog and the the bright yellow-orange ball of a sun rising up.

    I'll be happy to give Nick a smack for ya. thumb.gif
    Harry
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  • bkatzbkatz Registered Users Posts: 286 Major grins
    edited February 5, 2008
    Harry -

    Awesome shots as usual. I wish I could have joined you.

    I love the reflection shot. My favorite of the bunch.
    Cheers,
    Brian
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited February 5, 2008
    swintonphoto wrote:
    I always love your posts, but these first three shots are even more spectacular than usual. My flat ol' Kansas just doesn't look like that...

    Thanks it is a beautiful sight at sunrise and sunset.
    Harry
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited February 5, 2008
    Justiceiro wrote:
    Those spoonbill shots are really great Harry. Where did you shoot these?

    Thanks and the spoonies were shot on Black Point Drive up at the Merritt Island NWR.
    Harry
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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited February 5, 2008
    schmoo wrote:
    It totally looksl ike a prehistoric wonderland, where you are.
    Fitting, for Harry, the Old Man, isn't that? lol3.gif
    and give Nick a smack hello for me! :D

    +1
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  • darkdragondarkdragon Registered Users Posts: 1,051 Major grins
    edited February 5, 2008
    these are all great shots.

    looks like you are mostly all using the Wimberley head, I was just reading about that in John Shaw's Nature Photography book. I've been too scared to look up the price on it though. Probably much more head than I need right now with my little canon lens.

    I would love to see a string of 3 or 4 shots of #2 or #3 as panoramas. That would just be beautiful.

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  • ShepsMomShepsMom Registered Users Posts: 4,319 Major grins
    edited February 5, 2008
    Sounds like you all having a ball over there! Love that pink spoonbill shot. Great pictures Harry, thank you for sharing your adventures, no squirrels???headscratch.gif
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  • raptorcaptorraptorcaptor Registered Users Posts: 3,968 Major grins
    edited February 5, 2008
    Those sunrise shots are awesome Harry! The others aren't too bad either!
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  • jonh68jonh68 Registered Users Posts: 2,711 Major grins
    edited February 5, 2008
    Were the sunrise pics taken with the D3/D300? Whatever camera your using looks like it handled the highlights and shadows magnificently. The other shots are great as well.
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  • dbaker1221dbaker1221 Registered Users Posts: 4,482 Major grins
    edited February 5, 2008
    sweet shooting Harry:ivar
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited February 6, 2008
    bkatz wrote:
    Harry -

    Awesome shots as usual. I wish I could have joined you.

    I love the reflection shot. My favorite of the bunch.

    Thanks Brian, maybe you can make it next year.
    Harry
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  • gluwatergluwater Registered Users Posts: 3,599 Major grins
    edited February 6, 2008
    Ann McRae wrote:
    TELL THE BOY TO GET HIS BE-HIND OUT OF BED NOW! SLACKER!

    Great, great shots Harry! What beautiful morning light!

    Lovely portrait of Trish!

    Say hi to everyone,

    Ann
    Actually I was at Vierra and Harry was slacking at home on the computer. Well now I'm lying, he was prepping for the BBQ that was delicious.
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  • gluwatergluwater Registered Users Posts: 3,599 Major grins
    edited February 6, 2008
    schmoo wrote:
    It totally looksl ike a prehistoric wonderland, where you are.

    Sounds like a great time... and give Nick a smack hello for me! :D
    Hey Steph wave.gif. Thanks, now I'm sunburned and black and blue. I hope you all know the only reason Harry posted the Roseate Spoonbills is because he knows I didn't get any :cry.
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  • GiphsubGiphsub Registered Users Posts: 2,662 Major grins
    edited February 7, 2008
    Awesome shots Harry clap.gif That first one held my gaze for quite a while before moving down. Great set.
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited February 8, 2008
    Andy wrote:
    Fitting, for Harry, the Old Man, isn't that? lol3.gif

    +1



    :pissed
    Harry
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited February 9, 2008
    darkdragon wrote:
    these are all great shots.

    looks like you are mostly all using the Wimberley head, I was just reading about that in John Shaw's Nature Photography book. I've been too scared to look up the price on it though. Probably much more head than I need right now with my little canon lens.

    I would love to see a string of 3 or 4 shots of #2 or #3 as panoramas. That would just be beautiful.

    thumb.gif

    Thanks and the Wimberly head is a fine piece of expensive equipment for long lenses.

    Good idea about the panorama, I'll have to give that a try.
    Harry
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  • PhyxiusPhyxius Registered Users Posts: 1,396 Major grins
    edited February 9, 2008
    Harry, clap.gif

    Which camera(s) were these with? Did you take the D300 out and have you gotten the D3 yet? I'm sorry I've not been checking in and keeping up enough lately.

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    I love the birds randomly sitting on stuff in this one (and of course the sun!!), my favorite bird is the one on the sand below and to the left of sun. I don't know why, but my eye is drawn to him.

    Your second and third shots are so dreamy. They look like carefully set up movie or video game scenes. Very cool!

    And, I know you have tons of heron shots...but,
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    The reflections in this one are great!! If only that wee bit of debris wasn't there, either way it's totally awesome.thumb.gifthumb.gif

    Psst, it's nice to see all the Nikons too!

    Tell Nick to wake up and post! Oops, Nick is up. Hi Nick!:D
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited February 9, 2008
    Phyxius wrote:
    Harry, clap.gif

    Which camera(s) were these with? Did you take the D300 out and have you gotten the D3 yet? I'm sorry I've not been checking in and keeping up enough lately.


    I love the birds randomly sitting on stuff in this one (and of course the sun!!), my favorite bird is the one on the sand below and to the left of sun. I don't know why, but my eye is drawn to him.

    Your second and third shots are so dreamy. They look like carefully set up movie or video game scenes. Very cool!

    And, I know you have tons of heron shots...but,

    The reflections in this one are great!! If only that wee bit of debris wasn't there, either way it's totally awesome.thumb.gifthumb.gif

    Psst, it's nice to see all the Nikons too!

    Tell Nick to wake up and post! Oops, Nick is up. Hi Nick!:D

    Thanks very much Christina. All the landscape, wildlife shots, and the shot of Trish were with the D3. I used my D300 for the three other shots. Since I got the D3 its kinda hard to put it down.
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited February 10, 2008
    ShepsMom wrote:
    Sounds like you all having a ball over there! Love that pink spoonbill shot. Great pictures Harry, thank you for sharing your adventures, no squirrels???headscratch.gif

    We had a blast, you should try to make it next year.

    One of the shooters actually took a shot of a squirrel but I made him delete the shot. :pissed
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited February 10, 2008
    raptorcaptor wrote:
    Those sunrise shots are awesome Harry! The others aren't too bad either!

    Thanks Glenn wave.gif
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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!"
  • Mark EdellMark Edell Registered Users Posts: 672 Major grins
    edited February 10, 2008
    Sweet shots!
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited February 11, 2008
    jonh68 wrote:
    Were the sunrise pics taken with the D3/D300? Whatever camera your using looks like it handled the highlights and shadows magnificently. The other shots are great as well.

    The sunrise shots were taken with the D3. Thanks for the kind words.
    Harry
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  • Osprey WhispererOsprey Whisperer Registered Users Posts: 3,803 Major grins
    edited February 11, 2008
    Nice series Harry. Like the spoonie flight shots. I didn't get any this time. You'll have to have a word with them. :D
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited February 11, 2008
    dbaker1221 wrote:
    sweet shooting Harry:ivar

    Thanks Dave
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited February 11, 2008
    gluwater wrote:
    Hey Steph wave.gif. Thanks, now I'm sunburned and black and blue. I hope you all know the only reason Harry posted the Roseate Spoonbills is because he knows I didn't get any :cry.

    They were about the only thing you didn't shoot on this trip.
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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!"
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