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The grove of trees where I have seen hawks. Shot them one day - but they were backlit Been going in the morning when the sun would be on them, But no hawks. Sitting waiting I decided to take a series and make a panorama.

The female bird is usually the less colourful and the male gets all the attention. Poor female Mallard - the male with his iridescent green head is what people think of when they think Mallard. But she is a handsome duck in her own right. But it is hard to compete with the likes of this...

My first shots of a Ruddy Duck - first one is the female (IMHO) the blue bill and ruddy red body of the male in mating colours is hard to mis-identify. Watched him for a long time hoping for a BIF shot - they never left the water. :(

Just because it is common does not make the Tree Swallow any less beautiful I'm amazed at how much i can crop when using the 200-500 - and this was hand held shot. Birds were not all that close. Here is one of the shots without any cropping to give you an idea

Terns everywhere ---- opps - this is actually the Black Headed Gull not a tern at all. They seem to like to congregate on the walkway - maybe they think if they poop enough there those bothersome humans will stay away?

love those mobile mosquito eaters

Up close and personal with this tiny yellow succulent

What bug is this? When it flies it is like a tiny blur.

Shot some Canada Goose goslings. Yes - some of them I played around with some of the images p.p. Been playing with that new NIK plug-in. I need to view the tutorials. Looks like there is lots you can do with the photo's - if you have the know how. MEGA- CROP on this one...

The Eared Gerbe

Say "Awww" as in that 200-500 is awwwsome. Shot with the 200-500mm on the Jobu Micro Jimbal Adaptor on my monopod. Jimbal is working great. I may want to upgrade the ballhead, on the Manfrotto monopod currently using an Joby "X" ballhead. Rated for 11 pounds so should hold but it has...

Shot at Jesse Lake, near Bonnyville AB Canada.

Mr & Mrs Northern Shoveler Not to be mistaken with the Mallard this green headed duck has a unique bill and the male bill is black unlike the Mallard. Shot on a shallow pond (yes the water was that green) next to Jesse Lake at Bonnyville, AB Canada.

singing the praises of the Nikkor 200-500mm 5.6

Not sure why this upload failed in the post above, but here is that Fishy Fisheye - I hope. The "Porthole" effect with a Lensbaby Fisheye on FX camera.

First an apology, my memory failed. That "porthole" effect was from a Lensbaby Fisheye as shown below. So I mounted the Nikkor DX 35mm 1.8 onto my D90 DX camera then a D610 FX camera and compared the images. All shot handheld. D90 image - the DX lens on Dx camera. D610 in DX mode...

I didn't know that D750 automatically switches to DX crop mode. On my D610 I can turn that off and get the full frame - it comes out like a picture taken out a ship's port hole window, you get a round image. You could pretend you were being creative and thinking outside the box (well 4x6...

Yes, the 35mm DX lens works on a full frame camera, without an issue. If you don't select the auto DX crop in the full frame's menu you will get what I call the port hole effect. This link explains it well: https://photographylife.com/using-nikon-dx-lenses-on-fx-cameras I have used the...

Downloaded and installed - yes it works in Corel Paintshop Pro 8 Now to learn how to use it. I played around with the bokeh tool - need to learn more about that. Looks like fun - but will take some effort to get good at it. Photo above from the SuperTrains model railway show in...

I shoot in burst mode - more of a machine gun style hunter rather than a sniper rattling off shots as fast as my D610 and it's buffer will handle. I don't consider "keeper rate" as so many of my shots seem identical I just pick out a few (dozen) and work with them to get some I like. I went...