Winter Weather
Rain is never a good for photography in my opinion. I don’t like getting wet or cold, so I tend to stay indoors during the worst of Winter. However that doesn’t stop my bird photography from happening.
Rain is never a good for photography in my opinion. I don’t like getting wet or cold, so I tend to stay indoors during the worst of Winter. However that doesn’t stop my bird photography from happening.
On our last visit to Staglands Wildlife Reserve the new kea enclosure was almost finished and we could see how great it was going to be for the birds. So on our next free day we headed back to Staglands to check it out. The enclosure is so much bigger than it was, yet it …
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 …
Some time ago, a friend showed me an image of a set up for photographing birds in the back yard. He knew I had birds in my yard that I often photograph and thought I might be interested in trying something new. He was right and I have. The set up took a bit of …
A friend issued me a challenge recently which I have done in the past but not with the new camera, so I thought I would give it a go today. I chose today because was overcast, raining and I was inside, so shooting though a not so clean window. I was putting lots of barriers …
So yesterday the weather wasn’t great and my feet didn’t want to work that well, so I didn’t get far with the camera. Instead I put some millet in the tree and invited the sparrows to be my practice subjects for the day. I am trying to get quicker at manual focusing on the camera …
I have a big lens but I still want to get in closer to those elusive birds that are so skittish they move away once you get close to them. So I bought myself a new toy. It’s a Sigma 1.4x DG tele converter and wouldn’t you know it, the weather has packed in and …
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