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I'm getting a little tired of only backyard photography, but I'm doing my best to make the most of it. I should be able to get back out to some of my usual haunts in the next couple weeks. Unfortunately, my wildflower plot has not been very productive this year either. Likely due to a very hot...

Was using pre-release capture to try and get some in flight shots of songbirds in the backyard. Didn't notice what was in the cardinal's beak until I brought the image up on the computer. The finch looks like he wants some of that bug, although I understand they don't often eat insects.

More backyard mayhem.

I believe that is how it's set up on my Z8, and should be the same for the D850. I would recommend clearing your cards and then shoot a few images and check each card and make sure all your NEF files go to the CF Express and all the JPGs go to the SD. You can use your current SD until you get a...

I use the same setting BF suggested in my Z8. Raw files go to the CF express card, and I have a 256 GB SD card (relatively inexpensive) set to jpg. I can shoot for months without transferring or erasing the jpg files on the SD card. It's nice to have a RAW backup, but I can live with having a...

It would help to know what camera and lenses you have. Shooting sports with one of the newer mirrorless cameras, like a Z8 or Z9 is very different than an older DSLR. I don't do sports photography, but I shoot a lot of wildlife, and there are many similarities in equipment and techniques.

It's one of those things I would have tried last year, when I first got my Z8, but I was using the F mount tele on it, and you have to have a z mount lens for it to work. It might come in handy for other birds in flight situations, but I was just afraid that it would be too limiting unless I had...

I've been taking a lot of hummingbird pictures in the backyard recently. Maintaining focus tracking has been something of an issue. These little guys are fast. Only occasionally, the camera will lock onto something in the background, and I have to use the manual focus ring to get back to the...

We get wood storks here in coastal South Carolina during the warmer months. I routinely see s few at Magnolia,here in Charleston, and there are a number of mating pairs that nest at Cypress Wetlands in Port Royal SC, near Savannah.

I shot it over my back fence. The "tombstones" are fence planks and posts. Somehow it just seemed like it should be a selective color shot. Here it is in color.

And now for something completely different: This hawk keeps hanging around in the two yards behind me. And another hummingbird shot. Unfortunately, the hummingbird wildflower mix didn't seem to result in much of anything that would attract hummingbirds. There is one flower type that has...

Interesting.

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