Birds

Goodbye dear winter, it’s been nice to know you. I thoroughly enjoyed being stuck in traffic for hours because of the snow, fight a war against my tripod because the legs were frozen, watch my fingers do essentially nothing inspite of multiple brain signals fired in their direction, see ice cristals form on the LCD […]

Ladies and gentlemen, we got him! It has not been easy to get a photograph of this male Great Spotted Woodpecker. Ever since I’ve opened the doors of my forest feeding station, I’ve heard it around but never got a glimpse of it. I guess it was not in need of any assistance of the […]

I’ve been listening to the music of Pete Murray a lot lately, hence the title for this blog entry. It’s the title of his second album (2005) and thought it appropriate for this image of a Crested Tit in warm light. After the very encouraging results from last week, I tried again to create interesting […]

After the less than fortunate experiences of the Friday, I allowed myself another photography session on Sundaymorning. As the weather was drab again, it thought it would be a good idea to try some studio lighting techniques on the birds. I took a single flash and my recently acquired wireless Ebay-triggers. I had tried them […]

I have never had any bad experiences with the number 13. On the contrary, some very good things happened to me in the past on the 13th, even on Friday the 13th. Friday the 12th, however, is a completely different story it seems. It started with the weather forecast. Friday should be a nice and […]

The last Tit out of the party of five I want to introduce to you is the Coal Tit. It was the last Tit to arrive at the feeding station (after the Great Tit, Blue Tit, Willow Tit and Crested Tit), but it is making up for that with a big appetite and by being […]