South Texas Birding Photo Safari with Jason Odell Day 3.
Male Northern Cardinal feeding dinnert to a young Cardinal at a Ranch in Southern Texas. Image taken with a Nikon D4 camera and 600 mm f/4 VR lens (ISO 140, 600 mm, f/5.6, 1/1000 sec.
David's Images of the Day Photoblog
Male Northern Cardinal feeding dinnert to a young Cardinal at a Ranch in Southern Texas. Image taken with a Nikon D4 camera and 600 mm f/4 VR lens (ISO 140, 600 mm, f/5.6, 1/1000 sec.
Meadowlark Drinking at a Pond in Southern Texas. Image taken with a Nikon D4 camera and 600 mm f/4 VR lens (ISO 640, 600 mm, f/5.6, 1/2000 sec).
A groundhog using a rebar toothpick to clean its teeth. A squirrel with a nut, and a robin in the rain.
The cost of my new morning model is that she gets to nibble on the clover in the wildflower patch that I planted last fall. She is up every morning just about the time that the sun rises. So far she is very patient as I change cameras and lenses. I have been cleaning and testing the equipment I didn’t have with me on the Semester at Sea voyage. I had forgotten how big and heavy a DSLR and big telephoto lens can be. The real test will be the quality of these images vs. ones with the mirrorless kit that I used for the last 4 months. Image taken with a Nikon D3x camera and 600 mm f/4 VR lens (ISO 800, 600 mm, f/4, 1/500 sec).