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Great Gray Owl in Hanover
This morning while driving to Sharon to photograph trackers for Upper Valley Life, I spotted an Owl on Trescott Road. I turned around and slowly drove back with my camera aimed out an open window. It didn’t look like a Barred, but I couldn’t stop to search the woods where it flew or examine the photos carefully on my camera monitor. Late this afternoon when I saw the photos on my monitor I was pleased. This will save me a trip to Canada.
It was a Great Gray Owl, a very majestic bird. In Hanover no less. About a mile from downtown. Here are a few photos.
Tagged Great Gray Owl
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Hoary Redpolls
Once there was a large, strong football defensive lineman who would grab the whole backfield and toss the players away until he found the one with the ball. This might be similar to the random approach I took to photographing redpolls during the snow Saturday. I wasn’t really studying the birds but merely taking photos from time to time when one perched in a nice spot and I happened to notice. I was busy trying to finish and post a long story about a trip to Nepal in 2011. I was also trying to enjoy our winter visitors from up north who have been hanging around our yard for the past several weeks in groups of between one and three dozen at a time. And I was enjoying the snow which we were finally getting.
Yesterday I saw a post from Spencer about checking your feeders for hoary redpolls so figured I should download and check my photos to see if I got any. Here are three photos of what I believe are 2 or 3 different individuals that seem to have hoary redpoll characteristics.
Tagged hoary redpoll, redpoll, Snow
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LX7 First Month
I’ve had a new tool for a month now. It’s a camera to have fun with like the photo on the right of the shadows of my legs on my driveway. I’ve been testing what it can do and learning its controls so I can use them quickly and well in a pinch. It is the Panasonic LX7, a “pocket camera” that I will be inclined to carry and use in situations where my bigger cameras would be left behind. I reported on its features and showed some initial photos in an earlier Blog Post, “LX7 First Ten Days“.
When I’m using a camera with tiny sensor, I almost always use the lowest ISO available. But occasionally I am forced to push things a bit. I ran a test and shot the following photo at ISO 3200. I did some careful noise reduction in ACR and also used a third-party plug-in to reduce noise further on the full-sized JPEG before downsizing and sharpening. Not really a scientific exploration and I hope I never have to go anywhere nearly this high with the LX7 again, but I was pleased with the result.
Ever since the digital age, I’ve enjoyed making multi-shot panoramas. Below are a few I made with the LX7 in the last few weeks. The full-sized version of one of the pans in the brief show below is 240MP.
I enjoy photographing birds, normally with a long lens. However, sometimes one can work within the limitations of the 90mm (equivalent) lens of the LX7. Here is a Common Redpoll, a winter visitor from Canada photographed two days ago with the LX7. The photo is only minimally cropped. So how did I do this?
Here are some more photos I took with the LX7 in the last 20 days.
Nulhegan Basin in Vermont
In early October I spent a few hours in the Nulhegan Basin in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont. I was returning from a photography excursion into northern NH with a friend. The foliage was spectacular. I put a description of this area along with photos from this and previous trips on a page that you can visit by clicking HERE or on the image below.
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