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LAST LIGHT
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FINE LINES
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JAY BIRD
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PONDERING
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LITTLE STRETCH
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SKIMMER
SKIMMING BY
ONE OF A KIND
STREAMING SANDPIPERS
SWEET DEAMS
SNUGGLED UP
IBIS
TIPPING POINT
SPRING HERON
IN TRANSIT
STREAMING
SLIPSTREAM
FLY BY
BREAK THROUGH
70 KPH
High winds at West Pennant Point, Nova Scotia.
A WHALE OF A TAIL
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CHIHULY- esque
A SWOOP OF SWIFTS
Chimney swifts, Wolfville, Nova Scotia.
PORTRAIT OF A PUFFIN
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FINE LINES
Great blue heron
THE BEAVE
POSERS
FULL OF BULL
In the parks out west, the buffalo pretty much appear to have the run of the land, including the roads. Wherever they want to wander and for however long they want to stay is up to them. There is a technique for herding them with your vehicle that locals use so they can go about their business, but for tourists, like us, we just let them be and used it as an up close and personal photo opportunity.
MARK. SET. GO.
It’s fun to photograph Chickadees. The other, bigger birds are always very wary around the feeders but not the little chickadees. They don’t care who’s around. They just want to eat and, if you’re in the way, they’ll just use you as an interim perch.
They’re so small and fast, you never get to see the beauty of their wing forms as you can in the larger birds like herons or swans.
So I baited a branch, set up the camera a few feet away, and focused on the food. They’d pop into frame and snatch some seed. Then I’d start shooting, as I panned ahead in the direction I “guessed” they might exit.
Tricky timing. At first I ended up with a lot of empty backgrounds and just bits of bird in view. But gradually I got good enough at reading chickadee body language to snag a few keepers, including these shots that I combined to show three stages of lift off.
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