November 28, 2019 — Baylands, Sunnyvale, California
After a couple of passes, she spotted prey. A tight turn to zero in…
(Nikon D500, Nikon 200-500mm f/5.6E ED VR zoom. RAW processing in DxO PhotoLab 3.0; Editing in Adobe Photoshop.)
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California based fine-art photographer featuring abstract, impressionist, and minimalist seascapes — near and distant — and floral-based images.
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Stunning photo of this hunting bird.
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Thank you!
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I especially like the vertical orientation of the wings, echoing the vertical stems in the background.
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Thank you — and I’ll tell you, it was a split second.
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😳 wow hard shot to capture birds 🦅 so beautiful Michael ☺️
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Thank you very much, Hedy. Stay tuned for more.
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They are amazing 🦅👏 looking forward to it!
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This series is incredible. Thank you, Michael for sharing!
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Thank you! The best is yet to come…
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Wow, this is a great capture!
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Thanks!
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All those light-colored stalks in the background make this a unique photograph.
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Almost as if Harriet Harrier were an art director.
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Turns out there are people with that name:
https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=Harriet%20Harrier
Whether any of them are art directors, I don’t know.
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Oh, but do any of them have wings and feathers, and eat rodents?
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You can become Facebook friends with them and tactfully try to find out.
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That would involve getting a Facebook account and I have yet to think of sufficient justification for doing that.
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I don’t use it for much but Eve keeps in touch with her many family memeber and friends in the Philippines, Canada, and New Zealand that way. You can have free live video calls with anyone in the world who has a Facebook account.
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My wife has an account as well. Uses it similarly. I did recently start an Instagram account. The justification is I want to get better known as a photographer. And that’s one place where people are.
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Getting very close…. 😉
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Cool bank shot. It’s a nice catch showing how the feathers arrange in order to make a turn.
Regarding Facebook, there are a few reasons. I have actually made a couple of good friends there besides the virtual thing. I also am able to communicate with friends located around the world. And I have had a few folks buy prints from my FineArtAmerica account as a result of seeing my images posted on FB. Not a lot and I cannot quit my day job but it’s nice every once in a while. And you can have exchanges much like we do here on our blogs. But like many other things on the net these days, it can also be intrusive into your privacy. I am not concerned about that personally but understand how others might be. I am not on Instagram but I have heard people complaining about it too. YMMV
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Thank you very much. I completely understand regarding Facebook. It’s just not my thing.
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