I took this photo in May at the Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge. I posted the original photo without cropping it in my Great Blue Heron post. I also posted the photo to the Nature Photographers’ Network and the people there suggested that I crop the photo down to make it a portrait and highlight [...]
I took this picture while on a birding walk with the Portland Audubon Society. I was using a Nikon 600mm f/4 AF-S II lens. I did not bring my tripod with me because it was a walk and it was very difficult to shoot with this very heavy lens handheld. It was difficult to get [...]
I just read Trey Ratcliff’s new eBook – Composing the Photo: Creating Order from Chaos – Bonus Edition. It full of great information. I hope that it will help me understand why some of my photos are so much more popular than the others. I need to reread it to soak up all the information.
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I took this photo at the Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge in May. The water was drained but there was still a small pond next to the photo blind. So there were still a few birds around the water. This Great Blue Heron showed up and just looked magnificent. The Great Blue Heron is the [...]
I took this picture back in May at the Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon. They have a photo blind that you can reserve. I had been their previously in February and I took about 1,000 pictures then. The refuge was flooded in February and there were a lot of waterfowl and two bald [...]