Bosque Update

[Doug Brown]

The weather is gorgeous at the Bosque and the bird counts are rising every day! This morning the cranes took off a little on the early side, so the light wasn't great. The geese were the stars of the day. I ran into a number of BPN members including Walt Anderson, Chris Dodds, Gary Rouleau, and Michael Lloyd. Everyone seemed to be enjoying the day! Here's a Snow Goose that I photographed this morning.

http://birdwhisperer.smugmug.com/photos/417786729_Qt2sJ-O.jpg

Canon 1D Mark III, 700mm, f/8, 1/2000, ISO 400, manual exposure, no flash, hand held

[James Salywoda]

Sweet Shot! That bird looks stunning against that beautiful background. Fine Job

[bill kominsky]

Great shot my friend and would be hard pressed to find fault with such a stunning work of art, great job on this and all your images.

Bill

[Dominic Cantin]

WOW ! An excellent picture Doug !

If you see Chris Dodds again , shake his hand by saying : " Dom salutes you from Quebec :cool: " ;)

Keep shooting !

Dom :)

[Linda Robbins]

Such a beautiful, clean image! Nice flight pose, gorgeous soft light, and great bg. Perfect in every respect!

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Great image, I like the wing position, exposure control, details and BG.

[Stu Bowie]

Absolutely amazing. Your photography is simply outstanding Doug. This is so well exposed, pin sharp, against a perfect OOF BG. Great image Doug.

[Arthur Morris]

PMP = pretty much perfect. And lovely as well. Where?

[Fernando Cerra]

It looks so alive that I fear is coming out from my monitor !

[Doug Brown]

Thanks Artie! It was taken at the north end of the Farm Loop yesterday morning. BTW, this morning was really good!

[Tony Whitehead]

Beautiful image, Doug. Bosque sounds like a magical place.

[Juan Aragonés]

Doug the shinning of the feathers in the right wing is too good to be true! really nice light and action with a perfect wing pose, BG and eye contact. very goo job!

[Nancy A Elwood]

Doug really, really beautiful!!! No nits for me. I cannot wait to get there on December 7!!!!!

[Maxis Gamez]

Excellent work Doug, nothing else to say!

[Steve Large]

Beautiful feather detail and lighting Doug. I see you have switched from your 50D to the Mark III for the last little while. Is there a reason for that?

Steve

[Doug Brown]

This was shot using Jim Neiger's Mark III. I was letting him play around with the 50D. I like my Mark III and I like my 50D; each has its strengths and each has its weaknesses. I'll be posting some 50D photos taken with the 500 and 600 lenses because there seems to be some interest in how the 50D performs with big glass; it does not disappoint!