Maine! Sunday Supplement
High waters in the Mousam above Old Falls Pond. From the bridge. OM Systems OMD EM5Mkiii with the 12-45mm Pro at 24mm equivalent. In-camera HDR. Nominal exposure: ISO 200 @ f8 @ 1/250th.
Maine! Semi-palmated Plover
Semi-palmated Plover: York County, Maine, USA, September 2023 — As Hurricane Lee passed by, the migrant shorebirds congregated on our local beaches…mostly Sanderlings, but there are still a few Semi-palmated Plovers coming through. This handsome bird was feeding above the tide-line. OM Systems OM1 with ED 100-400mm zoom at 800mm equivalent. Program mode with my custom birds and wildlife modifications. Processed in Pixomator Pro and assembled in FrameMagic. ISO 400 @ f6.3 @ 1/640th.
Maine! Sanderlings
Sanderlings: York County, Maine, USA — As Hurricane Lee passed by off-shore, we had our first real inundation of Sanderlings on our local beaches, likely forced in trying to get around the storm. If you look at a distribution map you will see that they breed at the very north fringes to the continent. Their winter range starts just south of us on the east coast, and we do see them into winter, but mostly we just get them as they pass through. They were feeding furiously and very hard to catch in the frame. Another tidbit gleaned in this morning’s research is that the name comes from “sand plowman”…makes sense 🙂 OM Systems OM1 with ED 100-400mm zoom at 800mm equivalent. Program mode with my custom birds and wildlife modifications. Processed in Pixomator Pro. Mostly ISO 200 @ f6.3 @ 1/640th and 1/800th.
Maine! Friday fresh. Back Creek Marsh
Just something to celebrate the end of the week! Colors and light of fast approaching fall. This is Back Creek near where it flows into the Mousam River in Kennebunk Maine. In-camera HDR with the OM Systems OMD EM5Mkiii and the 12-45mm Pro zoom at 24mm equivalent. HDR scene mode. Nominal exposure: ISO 200 @ f9 @ 1/320th. Processed in Pixomator Pro.
Maine! Baird’s Sandpiper
Baird’s Sandpiper: York County, Maine, USA, September 2023 — Though they are classified as rare on the east coast and in Maine, I am pretty sure this is a Baird’s Sandpiper…a lone bird feeding quite far from all the Semi-palmated Sandpipers and Plovers, in the dry sand above the surf line. OM Systems OM-1 with ED 100-400mm zoom at 800mm equivalent. Program mode with my custom birds and wildlife modifications. Processed in Pixomator Pro. ISO 200 @ f7.1 @ 1/1000th.
Maine! Semi-palms (focus stack)
Semi-palmated Sandpipers and Plover: York County, Maine, USA, September 2023 — This looks different. It is different. It is a focus stacked image of a group of Semi-palmated Sandpipers, and one Semi-Palmated Plover from our local beach the day before Hurricane Lee went by off-shore. The birds were still! Still enough that I attempted a hand held (well bean-bag monopod supported) in-camera focus stack. I set the OM-1 to take 8 shots at different focus points and combine them into one shot…otherwise I could have only focused on one of these birds at a time with an 800mm equivalent lens. Though the result is much closer to reality…that is to the way our eye sees it from 12 feet away…in a photo where we expect a narrow focus plane it can look unreal. OM-Systems OM-1 with ED 100-400mm zoom at 800mm equivalent. Program mode with focus stacking. Processed in Pixomator Pro. Nominal exposure: ISO 200 @ f7.1 @ 1/1000th.
Maine! Plover Attitude
Semi-palmated Plovers: York County, Maine, USA, September 2023 — Semi-palmated Plovers have a lot of attitude and they were showing several varieties last week on our local beach as they waited for hurricane Lee to pass by. Maybe it was the weather? OM Systems OM-1 with ED 100-400mm zoom at 800mm equivalent. Program mode with my custom birds and wildlife modifications. Processed in Pixomator Pro. ISO 200 @ f8 @ 1/1000th.
Maine! Semi-palmated Sandpipers
Semi-palmated Sandpipers: York County, Maine, USA — Just before Lee arrived off-shore, the birds came into our beaches to get away from the storm and they were most confiding. They were not actively feeding…just waiting and happy to have their photos taken while they waited. OM Systems OM-1 with ED 100-400mm zoom at 800mm equivalent. Program mode with my custom birds and wildlife modificaitons. Processed in Pixomator Pro. ISO 200 @ f7.1 @ 1/1000th.
Maine! Rainy day antidote
Rain all day today, pretty much, so here is a shot from last week, just before Lee arrived off-shore. Fall coming on, and one of my favorite views around home. OM Systems EM5Miii with 12-45mm Pro zoom at 24mm equivalent. In camera HDR mode. Processed in Pixelmator Pro. Nominal exposure: ISO 200 @ f9 @ 1/320th.