David's Images of the Day Photoblog
Horse (Deer?) Fly Ready to Suck Your Blood. Image taken with a Nikon 1 V2 camera, FT1 adapter, and 70-300 mm VR lens (ISO 160, 300 mm, f/5.6, 1/80 sec). Hard to catch in flight, but this one was sunning itself on my windshield. Just look at the size of its mouth parts.
Rambunkshus teenage Fawns — “Got Milk”. Images taken with a Nikon
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Right Angle Star Trails. Operator error, didn’t tighten the ball head on the tripod. Images taken with a Nikon D3 camera and 24 mm f/3.5 PC-E lens.
I’ve seen this bird for the last few days. I thought is was a heron, but anytime I got within 100 feet it would fly to the other side of the pond and I was not fast enough to get an image. Today, I did get some images – but they are significantly cropped, and not all are in great focus. Once I saw its chest in the last images I knew it was an American Bittern. I need to go back with a bigger lens and maybe a tripod to get some better images.
The Reclusive American Bittern at the Sourland Mountain Preserve. Images taken with a Nikon D3s camera and 80-400 mm VRII lens.
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Post note — I now think this is an immature Green Heron 24-August-2016.
Sunset over Westerplatte and the Monument to the Defenders viewed from the deck of the MV Explorer while docked in Gdansk. Image taken with a Leica X2 camera (ISO 100, 24 mm, f/5, 1/640 sec). Raw image processed with Capture One Pro, Focus Magic, and Photoshop CC.
