Daily Archives: April 22, 2022

Turtle talk…

Eastern Painted Turtle: Never fear, I still have lots of photos from our trips to Costa Rica in December to share. However, it is spring in Maine and the turtles are out sunning themselves on rocks and logs in any pond with enough water to hold them. These were in mostly dry oxbow off the Kennebunk River along the Eastern Trail between Kennebunk and Arundel. Turtles are hard to photograph. You just have to learn to live with the blown-out highlights where sun reflects off the shell, or clone in shell from either side. I decided to leave them in this photo. We do see them with our naked eye…they just are never as glaring as they are in a photograph. Sony Rx10iv at 600mm equivalent. Program mode with my custom birds and wildlife modifications. Processed in Pixomator Photo and Apple Photos. ISO 100 @ f4 @ 1/500th.