birds

How does one know when it’s too much cropping in post production? Working in the field and the landscape prevents you from getting close to the birds or wildlife is there a distance to say it’s just too far, 30 feet or 60 feet? Or whatever distance? Let’s say using a 150-600 or 500 prime lenses...

This Blue Tit was zipping around this tree loaded with catkins finding some early morning breakfast Sunday, 18 Apr. D500 150-600C (at 600) s640 f6.3 auto-ISO900 with minor adjustments in LR/PS.

Although some call other vultur sub-species "condor" - "kuntur" is a quechua (incas) name - the real one is the Andean Condor (Vultur gryphus). Here's an article and pictures of my authorship published by Avian Report...

Hello everyone 👋, First post here. Female Northern Cardinal portrait - shot with a d850/500PF. Srinath

After having reviewed some of Steve's videos and books I went back to the field. I followed an Egret for a few day and hung out for a while. I was able to get pretty close by crawling on my belly on the semi-wet ground ( bit of mud here and there) and not spook the bird two days in a row. I...

Hi, new member. I'll introduce myself with some local (Sacramento County California) wintering waterfowl, on the American River a few minutes from home.

Well Not Quite A Storm But Wind Was Whipping A Sand In Face Of This Curlew

The Black-backed Kingfisher or Oriental Dwarf Kingfisher is said to be the smallest kingfisher in the world. They're residents of tropical forests in South and SE Asia. Very reclusive and barely spottable most of the year, they breed in July-August, excavating nests in vertical soft mud...

I normally spot grey herons catching tiny fish from the banks of small ponds and freshwater in the local parks. On this day I spotted this grey heron in the middle of the pond and thought there is something interesting going to happen. I set my tripod at almost the tip of the shore of the pond...