Bird Photography in Nature--a comparison to finding Waldo
Thought some of you all might like my comparison of nature bird photography to finding Waldo in a picture book, posted in my blog.
http://fotofilings.blogspot.com/2013/04/bird-photography-comparison-to-wheres.html
My example (no zoom, then honing in with zoom)
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And where do you live that it's so green already? It's f*ing snowing here today.
Or as a friend of mine posted on Facebook:
is almost in the middle of the first picture, barely in the lower right hand quadrant. You can just barely see it. Definitely I couldn't see it in the viewfinder. The whole point is that this is such a challenge because green leaves tend to all look the same in the viewfinder. On the blog I put an additional photo where my Canon is partially zoomed, so that is the intermediate photo. The whole process of finding birds and then honing in on them with the zoom is so much fun to me that I almost don't care about the results. I certainly will take photos at bird feeders but I don't have nearly the sense of accomplishment that I have when I find birds out in the wild.
I am wishing a speedy spring for you!
We still have a few bare trees here in Memphis, but not many. It is definitely harder to find birds among green leaves than on bare trees. Fortunately in the park there are some dead trees and that is where I get a lot of my woodpecker photos. I have a lot of red headed woodpecker photos at the Tennessee River, but I just got my first red headed woodpecker photo in Memphis, at the top of one of these dead trees. Not my best red headed woodpecker photo, but it is special to me because it is the first one from Memphis.
