Posts for: GWZ
May 24, 2019 20:23:58 #
PixelStan77 wrote:
Gary that last image is an amazing capture with it's tongue out.
Thanks Stan. In situations like this I shoot in burst mode (10 fps) just because you never know what you might capture. This was one of those happy circumstances where I happened to catch something interesting.
May 24, 2019 18:51:57 #
Longshadow wrote:
Nice shots.
Looks like a skink.
Looks like a skink.
Glad you liked them and thanks for the ID. I am no herpetologist, but I felt reasonably comfortable stating it was a lizard.
Gary
May 24, 2019 18:42:15 #
No BIF action at the local lake, but then I noticed something moving nearby. I was ready to move (quickly!) because there are snakes in the area. However, it turned out to be this lizard.
Oly 1 mk 2, 40-150/f2.8 with 1.4TC. Taken from about 48" and cropped heavily.
Enjoy.
Gary
Oly 1 mk 2, 40-150/f2.8 with 1.4TC. Taken from about 48" and cropped heavily.
Enjoy.
Gary
May 16, 2019 12:02:01 #
May 16, 2019 02:42:25 #
May 14, 2019 08:53:30 #
Finally got a chance to process some images taken over the past few months.
Olympus EM-1 II with 40-150/f2.8, some with a 1.4 TC. Cropped in post.
Enjoy!
Gary
Olympus EM-1 II with 40-150/f2.8, some with a 1.4 TC. Cropped in post.
Enjoy!
Gary
May 13, 2019 11:54:00 #
I have done two trips through Europe and found my D5300 with the 18-140 f/3.5-5.6 zoom to be an excellent walk-around combo. I also brought a 35mm/f1.8 because it was easy to carry. I used it a few times, but 98.63% of my pictures were taken with the zoom.
As you said - you will be "walking a ton". Go light - it makes your walking experience that much more enjoyable.
Gary
As you said - you will be "walking a ton". Go light - it makes your walking experience that much more enjoyable.
Gary
Feb 24, 2019 06:46:06 #
Feb 23, 2019 10:34:44 #
Here are a few images that managed to turn out reasonably good, despite almost 100% cloudy weather since Christmas.
All taken with Olympus EM-1 II, 40-150mm f/2.8 and 1.4 teleconverter.
Enjoy!
Gary
All taken with Olympus EM-1 II, 40-150mm f/2.8 and 1.4 teleconverter.
Enjoy!
Gary
Feb 8, 2019 10:50:34 #
For those of us who sometimes sit for hours waiting for the perfect fly-by, etc..., it is times like this that make it all worthwhile.
Wonderful captures!
Gary
Wonderful captures!
Gary
Jan 28, 2019 19:34:21 #
It was wet, drizzly, very heavy overcast, and about 35F this afternoon, but I went down to a local lake anyway to do some reading. I expected to see a portion of the lake frozen and other portions open water.
To get to the parking lot you must cross a causeway running north/south. When I crossed the causeway I observed on the west/left side what I expected to see – some ice and open water. However, on the right/east side I observed a lot of ice circles, something I had only seen in books and movies.
The side with the ice circles is the smaller, most up-stream, and most in-land portion of the lake. On the west side of the causeway the lake is much wider and a lot more open. The only way water gets from the smaller east side to the larger west side is under the causeway, which is visible in pictures 2 and 6.
I did not notice these circles rotating. It may simply be that they rotated so slowly it was imperceptible without an intervalometer to aid in that determination. Pictures 6 & 7 are of interest because they show formation of these circles.
The space between the circles was all water, but likely just above freezing.
All pictures taken with an IPhone 7 from shore, and about 7-8 feet above lake level. Some PP was done in PSE 14 to adjust light/contrast a bit. I saved the images so you can download,
For scale/visual reference, the portion of the green buoy that is visible in pictures 2, 4, 5, & 6 is about 3 – 4 above the water level.
If anyone has any more or better information about ice circles that form in such conditions please feel free to share with it in this post.
Basic information I found about ice circles is as follows. (Note – The following information is taken from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_circle . I removed footnotes, underlining, bolding, and hyperlinks to certain words, locations, or publications for ease of reading. For full text of article see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_circle.)
“Ice discs, ice circles, ice pans, or ice crepes are a natural phenomenon that occur in slow moving water in cold climates.
Ice circles are thin and circular slabs of ice that rotate slowly in the water. It is believed that they form in eddy currents. It has been shown that existing ice discs can maintain their rotation due to melting.
An unusual natural phenomenon, ice disks occur in slow moving water in cold climates and can vary in size, with circles more than 15 metres (49 ft) in diameter observed. Ice Circle of Vana-Vigala in Estonia is reported to have had a diameter of over 20 meters, whilst one approximately 298 feet (91 meters) in diameter appeared in Westbrook, Maine in January 2019.
Ice discs form on the outer bends in a river where the accelerating water creates a force called 'rotational shear', which breaks off a chunk of ice and twists it around. As the disc rotates, it grinds against surrounding ice — smoothing into a circle. A relatively uncommon phenomenon, one of the earliest recordings is of a slowly revolving disc spotted on the Mianus River and reported in an 1895 edition of Scientific American.”
Enjoy!
To get to the parking lot you must cross a causeway running north/south. When I crossed the causeway I observed on the west/left side what I expected to see – some ice and open water. However, on the right/east side I observed a lot of ice circles, something I had only seen in books and movies.
The side with the ice circles is the smaller, most up-stream, and most in-land portion of the lake. On the west side of the causeway the lake is much wider and a lot more open. The only way water gets from the smaller east side to the larger west side is under the causeway, which is visible in pictures 2 and 6.
I did not notice these circles rotating. It may simply be that they rotated so slowly it was imperceptible without an intervalometer to aid in that determination. Pictures 6 & 7 are of interest because they show formation of these circles.
The space between the circles was all water, but likely just above freezing.
All pictures taken with an IPhone 7 from shore, and about 7-8 feet above lake level. Some PP was done in PSE 14 to adjust light/contrast a bit. I saved the images so you can download,
For scale/visual reference, the portion of the green buoy that is visible in pictures 2, 4, 5, & 6 is about 3 – 4 above the water level.
If anyone has any more or better information about ice circles that form in such conditions please feel free to share with it in this post.
Basic information I found about ice circles is as follows. (Note – The following information is taken from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_circle . I removed footnotes, underlining, bolding, and hyperlinks to certain words, locations, or publications for ease of reading. For full text of article see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_circle.)
“Ice discs, ice circles, ice pans, or ice crepes are a natural phenomenon that occur in slow moving water in cold climates.
Ice circles are thin and circular slabs of ice that rotate slowly in the water. It is believed that they form in eddy currents. It has been shown that existing ice discs can maintain their rotation due to melting.
An unusual natural phenomenon, ice disks occur in slow moving water in cold climates and can vary in size, with circles more than 15 metres (49 ft) in diameter observed. Ice Circle of Vana-Vigala in Estonia is reported to have had a diameter of over 20 meters, whilst one approximately 298 feet (91 meters) in diameter appeared in Westbrook, Maine in January 2019.
Ice discs form on the outer bends in a river where the accelerating water creates a force called 'rotational shear', which breaks off a chunk of ice and twists it around. As the disc rotates, it grinds against surrounding ice — smoothing into a circle. A relatively uncommon phenomenon, one of the earliest recordings is of a slowly revolving disc spotted on the Mianus River and reported in an 1895 edition of Scientific American.”
Enjoy!
Jan 15, 2019 09:48:59 #
Jan 5, 2019 11:31:29 #
Nalu wrote:
These are great shots. Gulls are many times not appreciated, but they can be beautiful birds. I have a comment however. I am assuming all of these shots are cropped. If so, why so tight. I think they need a bit of room to move around.
Nalu - you have a valid observation about the cropping. The simple answer is lack of cooperation by the gulls.
The real answer is that they move so fast I have to pre-focus on the most likely spot (typically a small piece of bread) that they will head for, and then take my best guess how much to zoom in/out. They don't always come from the same direction or angle either. Thus, many of the images have gulls that are very close to the edge of the frame, thus necessitating what is a tight crop. I am not proficient in PP to be able to add space on the sides of the gull so that it is not such a tight crop and so that it looks natural.
Jan 5, 2019 10:41:09 #
Jan 5, 2019 10:11:03 #
Thank you all for viewing. I am glad you enjoyed these images.
They are a lot of fun to capture, and I am constantly amazed at the different positions feet, eyes, wings, beaks, feathers, etc..., in each image.
Gary
They are a lot of fun to capture, and I am constantly amazed at the different positions feet, eyes, wings, beaks, feathers, etc..., in each image.
Gary