Using my vehicle as a blind near a popular trail head. I took these with a Nikon D500 and a 600mm f4g and a 1.4x teleconverter. Happy Earth Day!
Central, Arizona
1/400 f5.6 iso1100
I want to shoutout and hopefully bring attention to
r/birdart. A lot of beautiful art from very talented people.
D850 with Nikkor af-s 105mm f2.8 ed vr
I use my Z8 for wildlife, but I still love getting the D850 out for just about everything else.
Normally the plains would be green after spring rains and melting snow. We haven’t had either. But, nature is resilient, and the blooms are there to welcome the pollinators so they can continue their partnership.
The last photo is where these flowers are blooming. Most of the land is either leased out to ranchers by BLM(bureau of land management) or its private ranch land. So it’s either trodden on by cattle, or sold off to land developers to built tract homes. I’ll take the ranch land any day, but it’s still unfortunate that nothing in nature is ever safe from human activity.
I’ve been photographing this location for a few years now, and I’ve learned to just sit still and let the birds come to me. I get impatient, bored, my back hurts from sitting or laying too long, but if I push through it, I am always rewarded.
1/500 f5.6 iso3200
Thankfully, Yellow Warblers are fairly abundant so the odds of getting a decent shot are better, but my goal for the summer( and every summer for the last eight years) is an Olive Warbler. They’re like ghosts, singing from the tree tops. But I always find something special when I’m out looking for them.
Central, Arizona
Yellow Warbler
Nikon D850 200-500mm f5.6
1/640 f6.6 iso2000