Great Egret: Orlando Wetlands Park, Christmas, Florida, USA, January 2025 — Still from the gloom, wet, damp, dank, dark Thursday of the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival at Orlando Wetlands. Leading a Point’nShootNature Photography workshop. Not bad light for an Egret…you get to see the full range of feather detail. Sony a6700. Tamron 50-400 at 489mm equivalent. Program mode with my bird and wildlife modifications. Processed in Photomator.
Boat-billed Heron: Caño Negro Wetlands Reserve, Costa Rica, December 2024 — We saw several Boat-billed Herons from our boat on Caño Negro…all but this one facing the wrong way for a photo. And this one was buried in foliage. I had only long enough for a burst of 5 shots before we drifted past the window. I was amazed and gratified to find that the subject detecting, eye-tracking auto focus manage to nail it even through the thicket. Sony a6700. Tamron 50-400 at 600mm equivalent. Program mode with my bird and wildlife modifications. (ISO 8000) Processed in Photomator.