Posts in Category: OM-1 & 100-400mm
Maine! Pine jealousy
If the pines are jealous of the maple’s fall finery, they can take pride in supporting the fiery climbing vine. This is Virginia Creeper, sometimes know as Woodvine…as it is one of the few climbing vines that turns red in the fall. OM Systems OM-1 with ED 100-400mm zoom at 554mm equivalent. Program mode. Processed in Pixelmator Pro. ISO 500 @ f6.3 @ 1/640th.
Maine! Stalking the wild mumminchog
Great Egret: York County, Maine, USA, October 2023 — Certainly stalking mumminchog, and maybe grasshoppers too, in the marsh along the Bridle Path. The Great Egret manages to make even is stalk look elegant and graceful. OM Systems OM-1 with ED 100-400mm zoom at 800mm equivalent. Program mode with my custom birds and wildlife modifications. Processed in Pixelmator Pro and assembled in FrameMagic. ISO 200 @ f6.3 @ 1/800th.
Maine! Gulp…
Great Egret: York County, Maine, USA, October 2023 — Even enlarged I can not quite see what the prey is here…I am assuming shore shrimp or mumminchog (a small marsh fish). As I said yesterday, it was finding a lot of them. They obviously go down the hatch whole. OM Systems OM-1 with ED 100-400mm zoom at 800mm equivalent. Program mode with my custom birds and wildlife modifications. Processed in Pixelmator Pro and assembled in FrameMagic. ISO 250 @ f6.3 @ 1/640th.
Maine! That Egret stroll
Great Egret: York County, Maine, USA, October 2023 — All the egret needs is a top hat and a cane to make its stroll the most elegant stroll in the world. Actually it does not need anything. 🙂 And it is hard to tell an Egret stroll from an Egret stalk…I suspect it is stalking most of the time, as it certainly was here on the marsh along the Bridle Path on a Sunday morning. OM Systems OM-1 with ED 100-400mm zoom at 800mm equivalent. Program mode with my custom birds and wildlife modifications. Processed in Pixelmator Pro. ISO 200 @ f7.1 @ 1/1000th. Assembled in FrameMagic.
Maine! Great Egret at the chowder
Great Egret: York County, Maine, USA, October 2023 — I found this Great Egret on a Sunday morning along the Bridle Path, in the pools closest to the path to begin with. I can’t say it was hunting…since it took a shore shrimp or mumminchog every few moments…so more feeding than hunting. The water along the edge of the pools must have been full of whatever it was catching. Like a good seafood chowder, minus the potatoes and onions. 🙂 The Egret slowly worked its way back further in the pools and I remembered to take the environmental shot only when it was well out from the path. Landscape with the OM Systems OMD EM5Mkiii with 12-45mm zoom at 24mm equivalent. Egret with the OM-1 and ED 100-400mm zoom at 800mm equivalent. In camera HDR Scene Mode for the landscape. Program mode with my custom birds and wildlife modifications for the Egret. Processed in Pixelmator Pro. Assembled in FrameMagic.
Maine! Tufted Titmouse from the back deck
Tufted Titmouse: York County, Maine, USA, October 2023 — One of the regular year-around visitors to our back deck feeding station is the Tufted Titmouse, caught here against the changing foliage of our maples. 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 2500 @ f6.3 @ 1/640th.
Maine! Last of the Mousam rapids Heron
Great Blue Heron: York County, Maine, USA, October 2023 — I think this is the last shot from my session with the Great Blue Heron in the Mousam river rapids that I will share for now. Fishing the rapids is a delicate balancing act, as many a fly-fisher who works this stretch of stream, can attest. OM Systems OM-1 with ED 100-400mm zoom at 472mm equivalent. Program mode with my custom birds and wildlife modifications. Processed in Pixelmator Pro. ISO 5000 @ f6.3 @ 1/640th.
Maine! Cold water
Great Blue Heron: York County, Maine, USA, October 2023 — Whoo! That’s cold! The Great Blue Heron in the Mousam River rapids gets in deeper than expected and seems to find the water cold. This is a bird shiver if I ever saw one…and…got to keep those wings dry! OM Systems OM-1 with ED 100-400mm zoom at 372mm equivalent. Program mode with my custom birds and wildlife modifications. Processed in Pixelmator Pro. ISO 5000 @ f6.3 @ 1/640th. I had not realized until posting these photos how much I used the zoom to frame different shots. One of the reasons I don’t use fixed focal length lenses more. 🙂
Maine! Heron in the rapids
Great Blue Heron: York County, Maine, USA, October 2023 — And here is the Heron in mid-stride as it worked its way up the rapids in search of prey. It was taking, as I have mentioned, some kind of small crustacean off the river bed. I suppose it would not have been adverse to a fish if it happened on one. 🙂 OM Systems OM-1 with the ED 100-400mm zoom at 538mm equivalent. Program mode with my custom birds and wildlife modifications. Processed in Pixelmator Pro. ISO 6400 @ f6.3 @ 1/640th.
Maine! Show me those wings!
Great Blue Heron: York County, Maine, USA, October 2023 — Still with the hunting Heron on the Mousam River…I processed and kept just under 50 of the 732 images I took of this bird…so if I share a few of them this week, cut me some slack 🙂 This one shows not only the magnificent wings but some interesting dynamics in the back feathers as the Heron spreads. I assume those back feathers are rooted in the skin above the back muscles that power the wings. OM Systems OM-1 with ED 100-400mm zoom at 698mm equivalent. Program mode with my custom birds and wildlife modifications. Processed in Pixelmator Pro. ISO 5000 @ f6.3 @ 1/640th.