Let There Be Pink
This past weekend was one of my best photography weekends in a long time especially when it comes to pink birds. My nemesis bird for years, I didn't photography my first spoonbill until my 40th birthday at Wako where a rougue one came by. I really didn't get any decent spoon shots until I went out with James. Every spring I head out to the Tampa Bay area with hopes of catching spoons with Darth Vadar himself. But until this past weekend, my luck with the conditions has been bizarre. My first trip out with James in 2007 yielded some good shots, but that was the weekend of all the fires and our photography was under a cloud of thick smoke.
In 2008, I went and got some decent pics, but we had cold weather, fog and rain. At least we made it back to the docks before the monsoon hit.
In 2009, we had to scratch the trip due to gale force winds. As you can imagine, I've been going bonkers in search of some good spoonbill shots. So this year, we finally got some perfect weather and I have so many killer spoon shots, I'll be processing them for several months.
This is the first spoon shot from Saturday that I was able to process.
EOS 7d +500 4.0L + 1.4x TCII
f/8
1/1000
ISO 400
Manual Mode
minor crop to 8x10 dimensions. I added a tad of topaz on the bird to bring bring out some details esp. in the feet since they blended into the background a bit.
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Originally Posted by Marina Scarr
