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Bird Art Tells a Story, As I look at all the photos I take, I am looking for a certain pose when it comes to bird photography. On average one or two photos out of 20 will be good when photographing wildlife, especially if you are using burst on your camera.

When it comes to bird photography, I like to save the shots where the bird is looking away or looking down. Almost as if it is thinking about something or daydreaming.

With Blue Herons, it is easy to get a shot like this because they are normally looking down at the water for food. I love the light in this photo, just enough shadow and light to create a nice piece of art work for me.

If you are a beginner in photography and want to practice photographing birds. Pick birds like the Blue Heron or Egrets and even Pelicans. They are a little slower which gives you plenty of time to practice focusing your camera, even in flight, they are fun birds to photograph.

Have a great weekend.

Bird Art Tells a Story

Sandra J

Lightning Photography

By Sandra | January 9, 2023

Lightning Photography, the other morning I woke up to the sound of thunder and rain. I got up and looked outside and off to the east I saw a lot of lightning. So I quick checked the weather station as to where the storm was from my location.

It was way off to the east so I quickly grabbed my camera gear and headed out to find a spot to set up my camera. I was almost to late, I was able to get a short video and about 8 photos as the storm raced across the morning sky.

Short Video below or this Link; Lightning Strikes over Water

I actually only used my Go Pro camera for this series of photos. I attached the go pro to the front bumper on my jeep. There is actually a hitch on the front of the jeep that sticks up high and I attached the go pro to the end of it and went back inside the jeep and watched the lightning show.

My settings for these shots are; 20 second intervals with a 15 sec shutter speed and ISO of 100.

I then took all the good photos I had and stacked them on top each other to get the final results of the photo below. It combined all the lightning strikes together.

How to Photograph Lightning w Go Pro, Camera Settings #shorts

Lightning Photography

Sandra J

Birds and Bunnies in Soft Light

By Sandra | July 14, 2022

Birds and Bunnies in Soft Light, what is soft light you might ask? Well it is considered to be diffused light, which I have the best luck finding in the early morning hours of a day. But you can always use the shade of a tree or the soft shadows of any structure.

One doesn’t always have a chance to place our wildlife in the right lighting for that, so the rule of thumb, depending on where you live of course, is to not photograph between 11am and 2pm. That is usually when the sun is straight over head and it is like shinning a giant flashlight right on your subject.

So for me, early morning is my favorite time of day to photograph outdoors..

Birds and Bunnies in Soft Light

Sandra J

We Have Moved On

By Sandra | February 24, 2022

We have moved on from Alabama, but I still have some photos from that area that I will be sharing. We are headed west and here are a couple of photo of what will be coming up after I get done posting Alabama photos.

We came across a huge flock of Ibis birds. This is a new one to my list. I am now up to 110 birds photographed.

This duck is a Northern Shoveler, he was pretty far away so I did not get a clean photo of it. But very colorful.

Thank you again for all of you who view my photos and leave comments. I really appreciate it. If I don’t reply in the next 2 weeks, please accept my apologies. There are obviously area’s in the states with no internet here, even in the twentieth century.