Posts in Category: OM-1 & 100-400mm
Costa Rica! Bird of the day…
Resplendent Quetzal: San Gerardo de Dota, Costa Rica, December 2023 — Bird of the day so far. It is not yet noon and we have an afternoon session with hummingbirds. This was before breakfast this morning, still in the deep shade of the mountains to the east. I never get tired of photographing this bird. OM Systems OM-1 with the ED 100-400mm IS zoom at 800mm equivalent. Program mode with my custom birds and wildlife modifications. Taken at ISO 25600! Processed in Photomator.
Costa Rica! Bird of the day…
Great Green Macaw: We went to a local ranch here in the Sarapiqui Valley where the family has been protecting Macaws for going on two generations. Not, in the beginning, for any other reason than they liked Macaws. They now have a flock of maybe 2-300, mostly Scarlet and hybrid Scarlet and Great Green…with a few pure breed Great Greens. They have feeding platforms where you can watch, and attempt to photograph the Macaws as they fly by at eye-level…and a garden where you can get close enough for portraits…of both the Macaws, and, on the day we visited, a visiting troop of fairly tame White-faced Capuchin monkeys. It is maybe not the same as seeing the macaws at the salt-licks in the Amazon, but it is a pretty amazing experience. And it certainly put my birds-in-flight Program modifications to the test. I was pleased with results and with how easy it was. OM Systems OM-1 with ED 100-400mm IS zoom at 200mm equivalent. (This bird was literally right in my face!) Processed in Photomatic.
Costa Rica! Bird of the day…
White-necked Jacobin Hummingbird, Dave and Dave’s Costa Rican Nature Reserve, La Vegin, Costa Rica, December 2023 — Male White-necked Jacobin Hummingbird in full display flight, guarding one of the Heliconia flowers at Dave and Dave’s this morning. OM Systems OM-1 with ED 100-400mm IS zoom at 506mm equivalent. Program mode with my custom birds-in-flight modifications. Processed in Photomator and Apple Photos.
Costa Rica! Bird of the day…
Red-headed Barbet: Soda ye Mirador Cinchona, Costa Rica, December 2023 — I saw one of these on my very first trip to Costa Rica, at La Paz Waterfall Gardens, just up the road from here, and I have been looking for another on every trip since. And here it is. Certainly one of the most spectacular of Central American and Costa Rican birds. Worth the trip. 🙂 OM Systems OM-1 with ED 100-400mm IS zoom at 800mm equivalent. Program mode with my custom birds and wildlife modifications. Processed in Photomator.
Costa Rica! Around the hotel
Hoffmann’s Woodpecker, Rufous-collared Sparrow, Great-tailed Grackle (2), Great Kiskadee (2), Clay-colored Thrush, Social Flycatcher. So the hotel is right downtown in San Jose, but it has limited grounds with trees, and it is the tropics after all, so there have to be birds. 🙂 I will posting on this trip when I can, where I can, as I can. All photos with the OM Systems OM-1 and the ED 100-400mm IS zoom at 800mm equivalent. Program mode with my custom birds and wildlife modifications. Processed in Photomator and assembled in FrameMagic.
Maine! Breakfast
Common Loon: York County, Maine, USA, November 2023 — Early in the morning, the Loon catches breakfast. 🙂 OM Systems OM-1 with ED 100-400mm IS zoom at 800mm equivalent. Program mode with my custom birds and wildlife modifications. Processed in Photomator. And hopefully tomorrow’s photo will be from Costa Rica if the hotel ground have anything to offer. 🙂
Maine! Eagle off home base
Bald Eagle: York County, Maine, USA, November 2023 — It is rare to see our local Eagle anywhere but in the tallest pine on the far side of the river, on his favorite branch, but one day last week he settled in a autumn oak closer to the water and closer to me. Still too far for the best photography, but better! Whatever he was doing in the second shot, it was not screaming…completely silent. OM Systems OM-1 with ED 100-400 IS zoom at 800mm equivalent. Program mode with my custom birds and wildlife modifications. Processed in Photomator and Apple Photos.
Maine! Splish splash
Canada Geese: I was photographing a small flock of Canada Geese who had spent the night at the high tide mark in one of our tidal rivers when they decided it was time to get up. Nothing has a messier take off than a flock of geese. Splish splash! And the noise! OM Systems OM-1 with ED 100-400mm zoom at 800mm equivalent. Program mode with my custom birds and wildlife modifications. Processed in Photomator.
Maine! Gullish airshow
Ring-billed Gull: York County, Maine, USA, November 2023 — Difficult lighting, but a show for sure. A small flock of Ring-billed Gulls soaring at eye-level…playing in the strong wind off the point of beach where a tidal river meets the sea. These are 2 selected by my long lens. Precision formation flying at its best. OM Systems OM-1 with ED 100-400mm zoom at 800mm equivalent. Program mode with my birds-in-flight modifications. Processed in Photomator.
Maine! Coming in…
Great Blue Heron: York County, Maine, USA, November 2023 — What goes up must come down, eventually even if you are a bird. This Great Blue Heron startled, very early one morning when the light was still at a low angle, and flew deeper into the marsh, where I captured it coming down. OM Systems OM-1 with ED 100-400mm zoom at 800mm equivalent. Program mode with my custom birds and wildlife modifications. Processed in Photomator and Apple Photos.