bajadreamer wrote:
This picture was taken in Cabin Lake, Oregon. The environment is the transition between conifer forest and high desert, typical of much of eastern central Oregon.
A number of different species of woodpeckers thrive here, but this appears to the be dominant one.
The picture was taken at a small pool of water that is present year round; the only one in several square miles. A stream of woodpeckers visit this every morning providing many opportunities for images.
This was shot with a Canon R5, a 100-500 mm zoom lens (at 500mm) from distance of approximately 20' from a blind. A grey overcast morning shortly after sunrise, SS 1/500, ISO 2500, f/7.1. In Photoshop, BG selectively darkened, cropped to square.
This picture was taken in Cabin Lake, Oregon. The ... (
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