Great composition! Excellent focus!
It's a beautiful creature and your pics would enhance a biology textbook or archive.
I find the first the most satisfactory. It seems balanced regarding highlights and shadows and the color is more prominent, but it also appears that the first had full sun, while the second must have had the sun partially obscured by a cloud.
I ran into this same thing with my new Minolta (many years ago). Since I was on vacation, I took it to a local camera shop and the clerk freed the stuck shutter. I had no more problems like that over the years I used that camera.
You might check out the "new" mirror-less cameras. I think Sony originated the first to become popular, but other makes now offer such.
Great portraits!!--super sharp centers with (post-processing?) blurring outside of the portrait itself. Thanks for taking in your new model.
I prefer the vertical version.
Beautiful shot. I think I'd crop out the distracting right-hand side of the frame.
love the light on the great blue heron
Your homeowner's policy won't cover your gear fully unless you have a specific "rider" attached to the policy. Expensive camera gear is treated like jewelry in that respect.
You're not alone. We got up early to watch the single band of clouds roll across the moon for over an hour. Still, got a few shots off in the occasional gap.
It's such a beautiful area. I especially like the last photo for the way the fence parallels the coastline.
It looks like an anole, commonly called an American chameleon. Something got its tail at one time.
I love the playful, leaping out of the frame of this work.