We have had a run of very cold wet days of late and the bad weather hasn’t really inspired me to go far with the camera. I was also getting bored with the silvereyes in our backyard, so we moved the feeder to the front of the house. Now I have a huge glass window […]
Since setting up the new feeding station for the silvereyes the weather has been anything but helpful for testing it out properly. The last couple of days though have been much better. I have been playing with the different lenses both through the window and through the open door and these images are some of […]
One of my friends lives in a house that is literally sitting in the tree tops. It actually sits on the side of a very steep bush covered hill and just standing on the deck scare the bejeebers out of me. It’s a huge drop down to the ground below. However from this very deck […]
Learning a new camera takes time, and ideally I would like to get to the point where I can change settings without thought. That I will be so familiar with the dials and buttons that I will instinctively change settings to suit the situation that I am photographing. Today after I finished work I decided […]
I look forward to this time every year, when the Silvereye fledglings follow their parents to our garden in search of food. They are a little later this year but well worth the wait. Over the weekend we have had two fledglings flitting around the branches calling for food. They have a very distinct call […]
The Winter months bring the Silvereyes and Tui to our garden, and give me a magic opportunity to get really close to these birds. Over the years I have worked at getting the birds used to being fed and to allow me to photograph them up very close. Now that I can to some extent […]
I am still on the topic of practicing with the Silvereyes. They are bouncing around the garden like jumping beans right now and I have no will power so the camera is sitting on the tripod beside me while I work, freezing my toes off beside the open French doors. Mad I know. But there […]
The silvereyes in our garden are my practice birds. They are always available during winter even when the weather is not so great. Today, being somewhat overcast and dull, was not a great day for heading out but it was perfect for practice time. The key with bird photography is to know you subject, know […]
When the Sigma 150-600S first came out, I first in line to purchase one. I love the clarity that the better glass gives to my images and while I bought it with the kingfishers in mind, I haven’t really had much of a chance to use it with them because of my foot. The lens […]
Having heard and seen the Silvereye chicks being fed for several days, yesterday I finally managed to capture an image of them. They are not as good as I would have liked but that was mainly because of where the birds decided to have lunch – they would have looked much better on a tree […]