I’ve previously written an entire series about color in nature photography but this time I’m going to concentrate on using color to make your subject stand out. For the most part color in nature isn’t something we can control. As a photographer all you can do is observe it and capture it, which can make [...]
Sometimes you are lucky to get really close enough to a bird to take a photo of just it’s head or upper body, like the Pileated Woodpecker shown above. Depending on the lens you are using, this can be one foot away or 30 feet away. I have taken songbird photos with a 50mm lens [...]
Taking great photographs of wild birds perched on a tree branch or standing on the ground is a challenge but even more challenging is to capture a bird in action. Slight actions from birds singing, spreading their wings to land or take off, to actions like birds battling to defend their territory, swooping down to [...]
In keeping with this weeks Colors in Nature theme, being the color blue, I have selected photos of the Blue Jay. Most of these were taken in my backyard. To attract the Blue Jay I put whole peanuts in the bird feeder. The Jays love these and will take the whole peanut (in the shell) [...]
The next in the series of colors, Blue. In searching through my collection of photographs it’s obvious blue seems to be the most common color followed up by green which makes sense with all the sky and water in many photos I’ve taken. You can see whether the camera is pointing up, down or almost [...]
This is a fun photograph of a Canada Goose taking off out of the water. I just happened to catch the huge splash of water in focus and it really made for a great different image.
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