Post Your Best Nature Shots!

[Kayaker72]

A few more from the Ithaca trip:

Taughannock Falls. (70-200 II @ 105 mm, 20 sec, f/4, ISO 400 with 10 stop B+W ND filter).

small-9014 by kayaker72, on Flickr

Seneca Mills Falls (70-200 II @ 165 mm, 30 sec, f/5.6, ISO 160 with 10 stop B+W ND filter).

small-9003 by kayaker72, on Flickr

Thanks for viewing....Brant

[Kayaker72]

A few more loon picks from my last trip. All shot with the 5DIII and Sigma 150-600 Sport

small-9423 by kayaker72, on Flickr

@600 mm, 1/500, f/6.3, ISO 1000

small-9488 by kayaker72, on Flickr

@600 mm, 1/400, f/8, ISO 1000

small-9465 by kayaker72, on Flickr

@534 mm, 1/500, f/6.3, ISO 1000

small-9556 by kayaker72, on Flickr

@548 mm, 1/400, f/8, ISO 1250

Thanks for viewing...Brant

[conropl]

A few more loon picks from my last trip. All shot with the 5DIII and Sigma 150-600 Sport

small-9556 by kayaker72, on Flickr

Thanks for viewing...Brant

I love the low angle shots you can get from a Kayak (or at least I assume that is how you got these). Especially this one.

Reminds me of Nate's shots... one of the things that made his water fowl shots stand out was getting that low angle (among other things), and not shooting down on them. Basically, that is what everyone in the Bird post does, but shooting straight on is more difficult with water fowl... you either have to be a belly crawler or get into a low vessel (kayak).

Pat

[Always Looking]

Brant,
More great loon photos. Seems you were certainly at the right place at the right time.

[Kayaker72]

Thanks Pat and Scott....glad you like the shots.

These were taken from my kayak. I was a bit worried about hand holding the 150-600S from the kayak, but it turned out to not be an issue. But, I'd recommend kayaking and photography from a kayak to just about anyone. A different perspective of things from the water and, often it seems, animals are just not as threatened by someone in a kayak vs from the land.

[Dave Throgmartin]

Here's a few nature shots:

#1 Daisy

2015_07_05_11553_LR_upd by dthrog00, on Flickr

#2 Flower with Hoverfly

2015_07_05_11616_LR_upd_5x7 by dthrog00, on Flickr

#3 Backlit Leaves

2015_07_05_11575_LR_upd by dthrog00, on Flickr

Thanks for viewing.
Dave

[jamsus]

Love the second one!

[conropl]

Love the second one!

+1

[Busted Knuckles]

I am going to put this in the nature thread as it is more nature in nature vs. BIF etc.

So the story goes like this.

Set up my chair at the shore side of my dock (it goes through a bit of cypress/pine swamp to get to the lake. Just had set down and had the tripod set up, hear a noise and looked up to glimps an eagle gliding above my pine trees. I take the camera off the tripod and hustle the 100 ft to the end of the dock to see if it landed on a tree around the lake. Nope, walk back and sit, and sit, where did all the birds/squirrels go - a solid 15 minutes, perhaps even 20.... BANG. Half way out the dock it it appears some part of a dead limb fell on the dock but it looks funny so I take a pic and zoom in..... It is the last bit of a 3 pound bass head. I look up and see.....[IMG]Eagle after Breakfast by mbarrett5076, on Flickr[/IMG]

[Dave Throgmartin]

Thanks guys I appreciate it.

Dave