Home from 20 days of photography in Florida. Went all over the place! More details of the various spots to follow! Below are some details of my trip:
20 days away from home - 17.5 days of shooting!
19,344 photos taken! - or 130gb worth
6347.7km driven (3944 miles)
Roughly $975 CAD spent ($750 USD) - everything from gas to food to entry fees! (I slept in my car every night, which saves a lot!)
Biggest expense was getting photos! (Entry fee's to Parks, Rookeries, Air-boat tour etc).
Didn't do much (any) birding - but managed 14 life birds! (Not hard to do, since I hadn't really been south!) - Anhingia, Reddish Egret, Wood Stork, Roseate Spoonbill, Black-bellied Whistling-Duck, Swallow-tailed Kite, Snail Kite, Northern Bobwhite, Purple Gallinule, Limpkin, Snowy Plover, White-winged Dove, Common Ground Dove and Florida Scrub Jay! A Whooping Crane was also very exciting for me. - Along with a few species I'd only seen once or twice before - Burrowing Owl, Crested Caracara, Mottled Duck, Chuck-wills-widow, Wilson's Plover, Sandwitch Tern and Painted Bunting!
Below is an early favourite from the trip! A Cape Coral Burrowing Owl at sunset. No manipulation here - White Balance set at "daylight", shot in "Neutral" with no added saturation! I did clone out a bunch of dust spots though! Image is full frame, taken with a 600+1.4xTC on my 1DM2n!
LOTS more photos to come in the future! Happy shooting! :D
Hmm, very interesting...and certainly out of the box!! I have to admit taht I wasn't sure at first, but the more I look at it the more I like it. It's one of those photos that has to grow on you. I would definitely eliminate the specular highlight above the head, and also the vertical line in ULC. A refreshing change of pace Brandon :-)
Very interesting indeed! This seems to be the kind of photographs that require the viewers to stop and look. Really look. Or they'd walk away with the impression that it's just another photo of the color orange. :D
Home! 20 Days of Florida
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