Posts in Category: Sony A6700 with Tamron 50-400Di iii
Eagle surprise
Bald Eagle: Roger’s Pond Park on the Mousam River, Kennebunk, Maine, USA, September 2025 — Surprise, surprise! I have not seen an eagle on the Mousam all summer, but here one was in one of their favorite haunts, it the trees across the Mousam River from the pond. A bit too far as usual, but you have to try (or at least I do). Sony a6700. Tamron 50-400 at 600mm equivalent (and heavily cropped to something like 3000mm). Program with bird and wildlife modifications. (With highlight metering to preserve the whites as best a possible.) Processed in Photomator. (Carol asked for a print of this for the wall, so I used Super-resolution and made her one.)
Flying Ruby
Ruby-throated Hummingbird: Kennebunk, Maine, August 2025 — Of course the real challenge is to get the hummingbirds in flight. It is not nearly as hard as it used to be, before bird recognition, eye-tracking, auto focus. Now days it is just a matter of patience (and a bit of hand-eye coordination that comes with practice). And of course totally dependent on how cooperative the hummer is. 🙂 So still a gift really, despite our fancy equipment. Sony a6700. Tamron 50-400 at 600mm equivalent. Program mode with action modifications. Processed in Photomator.
Ruby
Ruby-throated Hummingbird: Kennebunk, Maine, USA, August 2025 — I sat in the open deck doorway for an hour yesterday afternoon to see if the Ruby-throated Hummingbird was in a mood to cooperate. I wanted the adult male with his gorget showing, of course. For the first half hour the young male and the adult spent a lot of time keeping each other way from the feeder, but as afternoon drew on, and the need to fill the tanks before night became more urgent, they begin to be better at taking turns. The adult posed nicely right in front of me, and then the young bird came in to try to drive him from his perch. This is part of the interaction. The adult was not in the mood to move. Sony a6700. Tamron 50-400 at 600mm equivalent. Program with bird and wildlife modifications. Processed in Photomator.
Downy intent.
Downy Woodpecker: Kennebunk, Maine, USA, August 2025 — While waiting on the Ruby-throated Hummingbird, I could not resist the Downy Woodpecker who comes to the deck no matter what I am doing. Here is a Downy very intent on something. Sony a6700. Tamron 50-400 at 489mm equivalent. Program mode with action modifications. Processed in Photomator.
Not so Ruby-throat
Ruby-throated Hummingbird: Kennebunk, Maine, USA, August 2025 — We still have Ruby-throats coming to the feeder. This appears to be a young male, probably this year’s brood. The adult and this bird are having a grand old time keeping eachother from the feeder. Sony a6700. Tamron 50-400 at 600mm equivalent. Program mode with action modifications. Processed in Photomator.
Ring-bill
Ring-billed Gull: Kennebunk, Maine, USA, August 2025 — Another handsome gull from the beach on Tuesday. This one is a Ring-billed Gull. I asked Google AI to give me its age or plumage status from the photo, but it told me it could not do that, and I certainly do not know myself. Gulls! Sony a6700. Tamron 50-400 at 493mm equivalent. Program with my birds and wildlife modifications. Processed in Photomator.
Green
Green Heron: Roger’s Pond Park, Kennebunk, Maine, USA. August 2025 — It was over a week ago now that I walked up on this Green Heron tucked up under the bank on my side of the river, only to spook it and have it fly across. I have been back a few time since to see it might be making the river there part of its territory but I have not found it again. It is a long river. Sony a6700. Tamron 50-400 @ 600mm equivalent. Program mode with birds and wildlife modifications. Processed in Photomator.
Greater Yellowlegs
Greater Yellowlegs: Kennebunk, Maine, USA, August 2025 — The shore birds are beginning to come back trough on their way south already here in southern Maine. This is not the first Yellowlegs I have seen, but it was standing nicely along the edge of the stream where it flows out to the river. Sony a6700. Tamron 50-400 at 600mm equivalent. Program mode with bird and wildlife modifications. Processed in Photomator.
cones
Drying conifer cones: Kennebunk, Maine, USA, August 2025 — I am taking a course in Mindfulness and Photography, which it turns out is pretty much superficial mindfulness techniques with little or no direct connection to photography…but hay, they tried. The one thing it has reminded me to do is to look more attentively for the images that are there waiting for me to see them. I am good at doing that with birds and wildlife…but I forget sometimes to look down at the ground, or out at the landscape. I have a vague feeling that images like this one are just slightly pretentious…like making a sows ear into a silk purse. Still, I like the image. Sony a6700. Tamron 50-400 at 102mm equivalent. My macro mods. F13 for depth of field. Processed in Photomator.
Story of the hawk and the mockingbird
Red-tailed Hawk and Northern Mockingbird: Kennebunk, Maine, USA, August 2025 — This big Red-tailed Hawk flew over the road ahead of me while I was on my trike, chased by a Mockingbird. By the time I got off the trike and my camera up the hawk had settled in a tall conifer. I could not see the Mockingbird with my naked eye but I knew it was in there somewhere too. I took some shots with the hawk off-center in hopes of catching the Mockingbird, and managed to get both in the shot. The Hawk was still obviously feeling harassed and did not sit for long. And the Mockingbird was still on its tail when it flew. Sony a6700. Tamron 50-400 at 600mm equivalent (and cropped). Program mode with my birds and wildlife modifications. Processed in Photomator.