I am lucky to live about 30 minutes away from one of the best birding sites in the state of Florida which is Fort Desoto County Park in Tierra Verde. Being a great birding place also makes it a great place to practice a lot of different kinds of photography. […]
One of the thing I love about Fort Desoto is that there are so many different things to take pictures of. I spent most of the time I had last week taking pictures of birds in flight and testing out the autofocus. The Forster’s terns were diving right near the […]
Today I got to make my first real outing with the Canon 5D Mark III. I spent a couple of hours this morning at Fort Desoto, mostly around the pier photographing the birds. I also saw a couple of dolphin and got a decent shot or two. The autofocus on […]
These are the other two decent shots I got at Edward Medard Park in Plant City of the Snail Kites. They were mostly catching snails and flying back and forth calling to each other, but every once in a while one would fly over with a stick. Neither of these […]
This morning I took another trip back to Edward Medard Park and Reservoir for another shot at the Snail Kites. I had a little better luck today. I probably stayed for about 1 1/2 hours and they flew over maybe 5-6 times. These are definitely the best shots I have […]
On my last visit to the Circle B Bar Reserve I got the chance to practice some flight photography. I stationed myself on the dock on Lake Hancock around sunrise. I started by trying to capture silhouettes of the birds as they flew past the rising sun and its reflection […]