Posted on June 17, 2022
A series of images of Black Skimmers flying and skimming from previous trips to the Brigantine Division of the Edwin B. Forsythe NWR in Oceanville, NJ. The Featured image was taken with a Canon 1D mkIV with a 400mm DO lens & 1.4x Teleconverter
Category: Birds, Birds, Birds in Flight, birdscapes, Black Skimmers, Blog, Brigantine Division, Brigantine NWR, Brigantine NWR, Oceanville NJ, Canon 1.4X Teleconverter, Canon 1D MkIV, Edwin B Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, Equipment, Oceanville NJ, Wildlife, wildlife drive Tagged: black skimmer, Black Skimmers, Black Skimmers Fishing, Black Skimmers in Flight, Brigantine birds, Brigantine Division, Brigantine Divison Edwin B Forsythe NWR, Brigantine NWR, Brigantine Wildlife Drive, canon 1.4x teleconverter series III, Canon 1D MkIV, Canon 400mm DO lens, canon 400mm f/4 DO, Canon 400mm f/4 DO lens, Canon 400mm f4 DO lens, Canon Series III 1.4X Teleconverter
Posted on June 13, 2022
A closeup image of a Juvenile Tricolored Heron that I photographed early in the morning years ago as it was foraging in the shallow water along the Wildlife Drive at J.N. Ding Darling NWR in Sanibel, Florida. You can get quite a few closeup images early in the morning as the wading birds are foraging for their morning meal along the Drive. This was an older Juvenile as it’s reddish neck with spots of reddish feathers on their wings and upper back were starting to turn to the darker blue color. I was using a 400mm Canon DO lens with a 1.4X Teleconver on a Canon 1D mkIV.
Category: Birds, Birds, Blog, Canon 1.4X Teleconverter, Canon 1D MkIV, Ding Darling NWR, Sanibel FL, Equipment, Favorite Locations, J.N. Ding Darling NWR, Nature Still Lifes, Wildlife, wildlife drive Tagged: canon 1.4x teleconverter series III, Canon 400mm f/4 DO lens, J.N. Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge, J.N. Ding Darling NWR, J.N. Ding Darling Wildlife Drive, Juvenile Tricolored Heron, Tricolored Heron
Posted on June 3, 2022
I photographed this Great Blue Heron at a local Wildlife Area where I used to live many years ago. It was on the shoreline early in the am along the path and I took a few photos and went on my way so not to bother the Heron. Image taken at 7am with a Canon 400mm DO lens, 1.4x Teleconverter on a Canon 1D mkIV. I had the lens f/stop set wide open @ f/5.6 to get a softer smoother background. Because I had a 1.4x Teleconverter on the 400mm DO lens my lens aperture wide open went from f/4 to f/5.6.
Category: Birds, Birds, birdscapes, Blog, Canon 1D MkIV, Celery Farm, Celery Farm Natural Area, Equipment, Favorite Locations, Wildlife Tagged: Allendale NJ, canon 1.4x teleconverter series III, Canon 1D mkIV Camera, Canon 400mm f/4 DO lens, Celery Farm, Great Blue Heron, Photographing aperature wide open, The Celery Farm Natural Area
Posted on May 22, 2022
A series of Northern Harrier images taken at the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge in Maryland. All images were taken with a 400mm DO lens with a 1.4X Canon Teleconverter on a Canon 7D.
Posted on May 21, 2022
The Brigantine Division of the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge usually has a large amount of Snow Geese in March so it is fun to photograph the large groups of them especially in flight. On this visit I was on the Wildlife Drive looking at some small birds down by the water. A large group of Snow Geese took flight a little ways from where I was on the Wildlife Drive and were flying towards me. This image was taken as they were flying by me and then reversed direction and went back from where they took off.
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Posted on May 20, 2022
A series of images showing an Osprey landing sequence on an Osprey Platform along the Wildlife Drive at the Brigantine Division of the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge in Oceanville, New Jersey. Images were taken with a Canon 400mm DO lens with a 1.4X Teleconverter on a Canon 1D mk IV.
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Posted on May 18, 2022
Images are from a trip to the Brigantine Division of the Edwin B. Forsythe NWR in Oceanville, NJ. There are many Osprey Platforms scattered along the Wildlife Drive at Brigantine to get interesting images of Ospreys in and near their nests. Also you can see them flying into the Platform to feed the young and get interesting Osprey nest images if you have long lenses. The Images here are along the first straight away upon entering the Wildlife Drive with Atlantic City blurred in the background. The images were taken with a Canon 400mm DO lens with a Canon 2X Teleconverter on a Canon 1DmkIV.
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Posted on April 14, 2022
The images here are from Winter visits to the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge over a few years. The Featured colorful ice image was taken at sunrise with a Sigma 300-800mm lens @ 300mm on a Canon 20D .
Category: Blackwater NWR, Blackwater NWR, Cambridge MD, Blog, Cambridge MD, Cloudscapes, Favorite Locations, Landscapes, Skies and Clouds, skyscapes, Skyscapes & Clouds, sunrise, sunrise panoramas, wildlife drive Tagged: Blackwater Colorful Clouds, Blackwater landscapes, blackwater National Wildlife refuge, Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge Wildlife Drive, Blackwater NWR, Blackwater NWR Landscapes, Blackwater NWR sunrises, Blackwater sunset., Blackwater Sunsets, Blackwater Wildlife Drive, Canon 1D MkIII, Canon 1D mkIII1D, Canon 20D, Canon 400mm f/4 DO lens, Canon 7D, Sigma 300-800mm DG Lens
Posted on April 14, 2022
I was photographing this Bald Eagle as it was flying in to roost on this dead tree. It was making a loud squawking as it was flying in. Instead of using 3 images to show the Eagle flying in I put the 3 images into one image to show the Eagles flight path to the dead tree top. Images taken with a 400mm DO lens with a 1.4x Teleconverter on a Canon 1D mkIV.
Category: Bald Eagle in Flight, Bald Eagles, Birds, Blackwater NWR, Blackwater NWR, Cambridge MD, Blog, Canon 1D MkIV, Equipment, Favorite Locations, Image Stacking, Stacked Images, Wildlife, wildlife drive Tagged: Bald Eagle, bald Eagle At Blackwater NWR, Bald Eagle in Flight, Bald Eagle landing, Bald Eagle landing sequence, blackwater National Wildlife refuge, Blending 3 images into 1, Blending images in Photoshop, canon 1.4x teleconverter series III, Canon 1D MkIV, Canon 400mm f/4 DO lens
Posted on April 6, 2022
When we are at National Wildlife Refuges you often see interesting subjects way off in the distance, but too far away to get good images. Adobe has an “Enhance” feature now that you can “enhance” to Double the size of the image but it only works for certain “Raw”types. But many times I want more enlargement than “Enhance” gives you. I almost always shoot “Raw” images because I can get more detail & adjust them somewhat before opening them in Photoshop. Using Camera Raw I can also “UpRez” my images when using Adobe Camera Raw Data. This way of super uprezzing seems to work quite well most of the time. All you have to do is enter larger amounts in the Image sizing window in the Camera Raw Size Panel. Give it a try! You can also add a “High Pass” Sharpening Technique layer over the final image to enhance the sharpness more. Just adjust the opacity of the sharpness layer to what you like. I have found that when you adjust this lessen the amount a little more for better results. There are other ways to upRez but this is what I use quite often plus it is in your Adobe Photoshop already. So it easily works in my Image Workflow. Also the images here are downsized to 1200 pixel size for WordPress posting so the Full image has much more detail.
Category: Birds, Birds, birdscapes, Blog, Brigantine Division, Brigantine NWR, Brigantine NWR, Oceanville NJ, Camera Raw Uprezzing images, Canon 1D MkIV, Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge, Favorite Locations, Nature Still Lifes, Tips & Techniques, Up-rezzing images, Uprezzing Images in Adobe Camera Raw, Uprezzing images in Photoshop, Wildlife, wildlife drive Tagged: Black-Crowned Night-Heron, Brigantine birds, Brigantine Division, Brigantine Divison Edwin B Forsythe NWR, Brigantine Wildlife Drive, canon 1.4x teleconverter series III, Canon 1DmkIV, Canon 400mm f/4 DO lens, Great Egret, Uprezzing Images, Uprezzing Images in Adobe Camera Raw, Uprezzing images in Photoshop, wildlife drive