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- First Name
- Rusty
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- Myers
Week 22 - Took a while to choose a picture for this week. Debbie (Snoopster) contacted me on Thursday night and said she'd be in town over the weekend and was going to do a guided bird walk Saturday morning and asked if my wife and I wanted to join. Of course I did and much to my surprise, so did my wife. So we met up and I got very few bird pictures. Bird watchers and bird photographers are a bit incompatible...they just need a glimpse to identify and they are ready to move on. Photographers want to get closer and get a perfect shot. End result was I got more flower shots than birds.
That evening, Debbie and I decided to try another place in town on Sunday morning. My wife declined to come with some comment along the lines of having done her life limit of bird walks.
The place was called Commons Ford Ranch Metropolitan Park. It is 40 acres of recovered grasslands and riparian terrain. The local Audubon society club did a lot of the work. Here's a link: https://travisaudubon.org/conservation/commons-ford So lots of wildflowers growing and that means birds and bugs too. As the morning progressed, we started to see more and more bees and butterflies on the flowers so I switched to a macro lens and started shooting them. Here's one of my favorites from the day, a bee on a thistle bloom.
Some cropping was done on the image, but not too much.
CAMERA Canon EOS 7D Mark II
LENS Sigma 105mm f/2.8 EX DG OS HSM Macro
ISO 100
FOCAL LENGTH 105.0 mm (374.1 mm in 35mm)
APERTURE f/5.6
EXPOSURE TIME 0.0025s (1/400)
That evening, Debbie and I decided to try another place in town on Sunday morning. My wife declined to come with some comment along the lines of having done her life limit of bird walks.
The place was called Commons Ford Ranch Metropolitan Park. It is 40 acres of recovered grasslands and riparian terrain. The local Audubon society club did a lot of the work. Here's a link: https://travisaudubon.org/conservation/commons-ford So lots of wildflowers growing and that means birds and bugs too. As the morning progressed, we started to see more and more bees and butterflies on the flowers so I switched to a macro lens and started shooting them. Here's one of my favorites from the day, a bee on a thistle bloom.
Some cropping was done on the image, but not too much.
CAMERA Canon EOS 7D Mark II
LENS Sigma 105mm f/2.8 EX DG OS HSM Macro
ISO 100
FOCAL LENGTH 105.0 mm (374.1 mm in 35mm)
APERTURE f/5.6
EXPOSURE TIME 0.0025s (1/400)