Birds

“Is your image overexposed, call it hi-key…”. A phrase that can be regularly found on the internet. I absolutely do not agree, as there is a major difference between the two. The sole fact that a background may be completely white does not make an image overexposed. You’ll have to look at the subject: is […]

This years winter was a very cold one. Kingfishers, despite their Dutch name (translated to Icebird) don’t like cold winters at all. It’s not that they freeze to death, but when small lakes and ponds are frozen, it’s difficult if not impossible for them to find food, and they starve to death. Observations this spring […]

Since my return from Bulgaria two weeks ago, I have not touched the camera at all. It seems I need time to recover from an overkill of photography. I got up around 4am every day and only let go of the camera around 11pm to recharge both my battery and the cameras. Back home, the […]

The stump of the dead berch tree in which the woodpecker family had (the chicks have long fledged) its nest cavity is forked. The two parts of the fork line up perfectly, one part preventing the early morning sunlight from hitting the other part, but for only five minutes a day. I figured I could […]

This flight shot of a male Great Spotted Woodpecker was taken in a completely other manner than the flight shots of the Common Terns shown earlier in this blog. The woodpecker had its nesting cavity with very loud chicks in a dead berch tree, about 3 meters above ground level. I had spent a mere […]

Another flight shot, and again of a Common Tern, yet a completely different image. This was taken on a very cloudy and windy day with a dull sky and little to no contrast. Perfect circumstances to try high key flight shots of white birds, such as terns. I increased the ISO to 1000 to get […]