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Wilson was snoozing on the fence post again today. I only fired the shutter once. And that was all it took. He awoke immediately, stretched, then walked over to get his peanuts. Sometimes he'd stay right there and eat one. Other times he'd pick one up and head back to the wooden fence post...

Rick, did you see this post by Jake showing how much detail can be brought back with Topaz AI? Here's the link to the thread as well as Jake's actual post. This is an impressive demonstration. https://nikonites.com/telephoto/44079-what-your-thoughts.html#post723899

Yesterday Wilson was resting on the fence so I put a few peanuts up on the top of the white vinyl fence. He'd take one, run back to the wooden fence post, then eat it. Later yesterday afternoon I went out in search of a landscape scene for the weekly challenge. On my way home, I spotted this...

Someone on Facebook suggested I get some peanuts in the shells for Wilson. So yesterday I left a few out for him, and he was thrilled. Today I put some under the bird feeder. As you can see, his feet are dirty from hiding them in the dirt. Then he was patiently waiting for more.

I'm sure @cwgrizz will be along soon, but submission time is over.

I'm sure @Vixen will be happy to hear an update on the squirrel. :) So this morning I saw a few hairs of its tail showing just over the top of the fence. So once again I made the kissy noise. First it gave me the impersonation of Wilson from Home Improvement (anyone remember that show?)...

On my bucket list to hopefully photograph this year were a Blue Heron, a Fox, a Coyote, and an Owl - all subjects that I haven't photographed prior to this year. As luck would have it, I spotted a Blue Heron this month. Although I captured it twice since this outing, none of the images were...

All of these were cropped from their originals. The image I submitted in the Birds weekly challenge is a further crop of the 3rd photo.

UPDATE: Since there are so many entries into this popular weekly challenge, I have decided to bow out and hopefully give someone else a chance. So the image is for show only. Thank you for the likes. :)

B&H has a Lexar Card Reader on sale for $14.99 today only if anyone needs a portable card reader. https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1141181-REG/lexar_lrw400crbna_professional_usb_3_0_dual.html

This hawk I've photographed several times doesn't appear to be afraid of me. In the first image, the hawk was initially perched on a wire a little further away but spotted something 20-25 feet away from me. It flew down there so I took its pic from where I was standing. I was too close to fit...

Sometimes even I don't understand what the forum expects when it comes to questions and old threads. If someone creates a new thread asking questions when there is a similar old thread buried on the forum, the two threads get merged together. So why shouldn't members raise an old thread to life...

I had someone in a Facebook group comment that it looked like the hawk has lashes after posting the above image. When I shoot, my 2nd slot is set to jpeg. Instead of editing a RAW file, I simply cropped out more than half of the following SOOC jpeg to zoom in on the eyes from a different...

I let our dogs out this morning and saw this squirrel sitting on a neighbor's fence post. I shot a few frames in continuous - the squirrel barely opened its eyes. So I will check on it in a little while to see if it is still there.

The winner of Still Life with Fruit is Robin W garnering 30.77% of the votes! Congratulations Robin! This was a very close challenge. And thank you to all who submitted, liked, and voted. :encouragement: ​​

I removed the branches from the images I posted yesterday. Looks like the hawk caught a mouse. Vertical crop from a horizontal image.

Photographing a Blue Heron has been on my bucket list for a few years. Two days ago that finally happened. :) When I posted in a local Facebook group and mentioned I'd still like to photograph a fox and a coyote, I was given some leads. :cool: They aren't the kind of wildlife you think you'd see...

Actually these might not be too bad of a comparison to the photos from the first hawk images. These were also shot at f/6.7 although I bumped up the shutter speed a notch with these. Although there isn't a great deal of DoF, the hawk's head looks to be in better focus. When I edited the photos...

So the refurbished TC arrived this afternoon and without performing any AF tuning, I tested it out. It isn't a fair comparison to the hawk images because I stopped down to f/8 here and used a slightly faster shutter speed. However I tried to replicate my post processing to match what I did with...