Strictly For The Birds

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Tony Britton

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Hello everyone,

New member here. While I enjoy many categories of photography, birds remain my very favorite subjects. I especially enjoy portrait style captures whenever possible and I wanted to share some of my favorite photos with you, which I hope you'll enjoy. Birds are truly living works of art!

Kind regards,

Tony

1. Double-crested Cormorant
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2. Great Blue Heron
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3. Snowy Egret
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4. Black-crowned Night Heron
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5. Green Heron
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A mix of wide angle & portrait shots.

1. Snowy Egret
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2. Black-crowned Night Heron (transitional form between juvenile & adult forms!)
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3. Green Heron
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3. Double-crested Cormorant
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4. Snowy Egret
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5. Brown Pelican
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Welcome Tony. Beautiful photography, not sure I could identify all of them. It must require a lot time and patience,
 
Carla said:
Welcome Tony. Beautiful photography, not sure I could identify all of them. It must require a lot time and patience,
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Thanks for the welcome and for taking the time to look & comment. It's such a joy to be in the presence of these beautiful birds!

Tony
 
Knightofalbion said:
Beautiful photography, dear Tony.

What zoom do you use as a matter of interest?
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For my bird & wildlife photographs I use the Canon SX40, Canon SX50, and Nikon Coolpix P610, all of which are fixed lens point-and-shoot (bridge) cameras. The photos I've posted thus far were all taken hand-held and have not been cropped. The zoom range on my cameras are phenomenal and I use the zoom mainly to "fill the frame" with relatively close subjects rather than using the zoom to bring a relatively distant subject "closer." This is how I'm able to get the type of detail I'm very much interested in capturing, say for example, eye detail.

Tony
 
I'm a big nature lover Tony, thanks for sharing your photos! The birds are absolutely beautiful and your photography is excellent, hope you wife keeps on pointing! :cool2:
 
SeaBreeze said:
I'm a big nature lover Tony, thanks for sharing your photos! The birds are absolutely beautiful and your photography is excellent, hope you wife keeps on pointing! :cool2:
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Thanks so much for taking the time to look and comment. Nature continues to astound on a daily basis, to be sure! Rest assured that my wife adheres to a strict, daily regimen of strategic pointing exercises that guarantee consistent results in the field! :D

Tony
 
Lovely, I like the eyeliner of the Black Oyster Catcher! By the way, thanks for writing the names down of these beautiful birds, I would never know what they were if you didn't.
 
SeaBreeze said:
Lovely, I like the eyeliner of the Black Oyster Catcher! By the way, thanks for writing the names down of these beautiful birds, I would never know what they were if you didn't.
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Thank you. Yes, it's a thrill to get close enough to capture their interesting eye detail. Also, I really enjoy their very distinctive call. Glad you like the photos and I think the names always help. It's also fun to investigate the etymologies of the names. For example, cormorant means "sea raven!"

Tony
 
I wanted to share a few of my favorite CAPTIVE bird photos. The best we can hope for in this case is to have them appear, well, less captive!

1. Himalayan Monal
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2. American Flamingo
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3. Harris's Hawk
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4. Great Horned Owl
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5. Blue-bellied Roller
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6. Blue-and-Yellow Macaw
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7. East African Crowned Crane
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