What??? No landscape image? The other night I took my camera club out to the Martinez Regional Shoreline and while I did take a lot of landscape photos, I thought I’d post the only one that wasn’t a landscape. Shockerrrrr!
This little guy was perfectly content to go about learning the ways of an Egret while I snapped his picture. Hope you like what I did with it!
Teenaged Egret @ Martinez Regional Shoreline
** To see the photos with less blur, please click on the first one and then advance with arrow. Just looking at the gallery all at once here shows them blurrier than they are **
Every morning and evening white tailed kites fly around our deck screeching. The pair of kites had babies recently and the babies are huge. We think there are three babies and think they’re still learning how to master flying as sometimes they look kind of shaky in the air. Every day they’re improving though and I often wonder how long they’ll be around once they are able to hunt for themselves. The babies are the ones with a rust-colored chest. The ones without the rust-colored chest are the adults.
Check out the acrobatic shots…such as they are. It wasn’t that easy to get sharp shots especially since my 300mm lens isn’t the fastest. All images are aggressively cropped and shot at ISO 640. I have a lot to learn about shooting birds but it’s fun trying. Please pardon the blur. (The second to the last shot shows some finches and a hummingbird.)
It’s been so incredibly hot here lately. Ugh! The heat along with the California fires and the world news are enough for me to throw my hands up in the air. But then all of a sudden something makes me smile…
This little guy was so cute sitting on this fence, and I swear he was looking at me! Don’t you think? He had such an innocent look about him too which is a look that’s hard not to feel good about. 🙂
I find that it’s the little things in life that make me smile. Hope you are smiling today!
Laura Macky Photography 