Photographers here -- What are you shooting at?
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Caught one of the trains coming through town yesterday.
Infrequent Shooter
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Infrequent Shooter
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super photograph. Wow.
KMart
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It looks like Bevo managed to escape Austin. God bless him.
A friend once explained the difference in professional photographers and amateurs. He said that the professionals do NOT hesitate to throw away bad pictures while amateurs try to explain them.
Current flood state of the river in Grand Forks on Sunday.
jackieschmidt
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I title these “shipyard Pastorals”.
Southwest Shipyard at 5:00 AM this morning
Southwest Shipyard at 5:00 AM this morning
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wildcatter
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Well at the lake last week, sitting on the deck enjoying a glass of Bourbon, I was sudenly suprised by some action over the lake, I thought wow, 2 Bald Eagles at the same time. They were about 12 0'clock in the sky with the sun about 2 o'clock. Diving and turning and dropping and elevating putting on a show that would rival the blue angles!
So don't be to hard on me, they are not perfect being the sun is backlighting the thin clouds with horrendous lighting conditions. But I, seeing nothing but black silhouettes in front of this bright background, grabbed the 1d MKIV setting on the deck table with the the 300mm F2.8L and a 1.4 ext. on it and quickly ran the exposer compensation to 3 full stops over the meter, and hand held as I had to if I wanted to catch the Eagles, not the sky! bobbing and weaving to get thru the limbs in front of me.
Well this was to surprise what I saw after grabbing about a dozen frames when they would clear the 2 large Oaks limbs over the back of the deck. Maybe 15 or 20 seconds and they chased away out of sight. These are heavy crops, and like I said taken 3 full stops over the meter, as far as I can go in hurry with the camera set on aperture priority. but imagine my surprise when I zoomed in and seen what was really happening,,,,,
A bald Eagle in pursuit of an Osprey (superior fishing falcon to the Eagle) and trying to steal the fish the Osprey had caught! This why I love this desolate wildlife area that is berried deep in the marsh of three private lakes, no access, commercial or public. Truly Gods Country where I go to get my head right,,,,,,,, which doesn't seem to work, but lets me enjoy these moments non stop.
So don't be to hard on me, they are not perfect being the sun is backlighting the thin clouds with horrendous lighting conditions. But I, seeing nothing but black silhouettes in front of this bright background, grabbed the 1d MKIV setting on the deck table with the the 300mm F2.8L and a 1.4 ext. on it and quickly ran the exposer compensation to 3 full stops over the meter, and hand held as I had to if I wanted to catch the Eagles, not the sky! bobbing and weaving to get thru the limbs in front of me.
Well this was to surprise what I saw after grabbing about a dozen frames when they would clear the 2 large Oaks limbs over the back of the deck. Maybe 15 or 20 seconds and they chased away out of sight. These are heavy crops, and like I said taken 3 full stops over the meter, as far as I can go in hurry with the camera set on aperture priority. but imagine my surprise when I zoomed in and seen what was really happening,,,,,
A bald Eagle in pursuit of an Osprey (superior fishing falcon to the Eagle) and trying to steal the fish the Osprey had caught! This why I love this desolate wildlife area that is berried deep in the marsh of three private lakes, no access, commercial or public. Truly Gods Country where I go to get my head right,,,,,,,, which doesn't seem to work, but lets me enjoy these moments non stop.
wildcatter
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Some better pics from the deck, distant shots cropped, so don't be to hard on me, again working with what I got.
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