Birds Don't Smile #3 (but they do punk out)

I'll apologize now for what will probably be a continuing series of bird pictures. I haven't been shooting much lately, but what little there is is almost all from Reifel. I've needed the exercise and Reifel is one of the few places I know that I will invariably spend 3-4 hours packing around all my gear. In the past 5 or 6 weeks I've socked away quite a few shots from there, and there are a few decent ones among them. Not to worry, I won't post all of them, just enough to keep thinks going until I get something else worthwhile.

This shot was from this past Tuesday, and it's a juvenile Sandhill Crane that's ruffling it's feathers, giving it a bit of a punked-up look I suppose. While it's someone similar to another shot I posted a while back, I thought it was unique enough that it merited the 'honour'.

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Muddy Beak

I don't much like the way that this shot was framed - with birds sometimes you just have to work with what you can get, but I've tried to crop it down into something that I like better with no luck. In the meantime, I do like the way that the bird came out after processing. I just wonder what it is that these birds eat that they find so deep down in the muck that their entire beaks get covered in mud.

I've been playing a bit lately with a different way of processing images using lab colour in photoshop. I can't say that I've got the basics of it yet and mastering the technique is a long way off, but the result here was quite pleasing (you'd have to have seen the raw photo, prior to processing).

Sorry about the long delays between posts lately. Between working on the trying out the new process and not wanting to post only bird shots (Ooops, failed there - it's kinda hard since it's just about all I've been shooting lately) there hasn't been much that I wanted to post. I am, at least, feeling more motivated lately.

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On a Clear Day You Can See Forever

According to Google Earth, I was standing approximately 98 kilometers away from the peak of Mount Baker at Boundary Bay when I took this shot. I think there's some sort of horizon illusion that occurs that makes things look much closer. And the magnification of a high-powered zoom lens doesn't hurt either.

Oh, and Corwin, I think that this time this is a Crane, rather than a Heron. If you're still counting.

And for everyone else - it's not a bug shot! :)

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Christmas Day #4

Ooops, just realized that I've not posted anything all weekend; I'd intended to post this one on Friday.

This is the last of the Christmas day pictures. Taken late that day, after I'd finally gone home for some food, a nap and a shower. That's the 9:00 gun in Stanely Park in the foreground, with the same cranes featured in a shot back in February.

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