Posted on March 24, 2021
An owl perches on a gauntlet at a birds of prey display in St-Germain de Confolens.
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Birds
Category: Uncategorized Tagged: Birds, Birds of Prey, Cee's Fun Foto Challenge, Owl
Posted on June 21, 2020
‘Free as a bird’. That’s what they say, isn’t it?
52 Week Smartphone Challenge: 25 Freedom
Category: Uncategorized Tagged: 52 Week Smartphone Challenge, 52WeekSmartphoneChallenge, Birds, Freedom, London, River Thames
Posted on May 19, 2020
The well-trained bird of prey – such as this owl – will always return to its handler: especially when there’s food to be had.
Tuesday Photo Challenge: Return
Category: Uncategorized Tagged: Birds, Birds of Prey, fpj-photo-challenge, Owl, Returns
Posted on March 27, 2020
Cee’s topic this week is birds. As selective colour is permitted – and, I think, really works in this case – here is an owl (I’m afraid I cannot remember what kind).
The plumage is black and white in any case, so all I had to do was desaturate the greens in the background. Those orange irises are really very striking.
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Birds
Category: Black & White Tagged: Birds, Birds of Prey, Black & White, Cee's Black & White Photo Challenge, Orange, Owl, selective colour
Posted on October 4, 2018
When my children were growing up in Scotland, a trip to the town of Linlithgow, just outside Edinburgh, was a common excursion, one of the highlights of which was to go and feed the birds – ducks, swans and gulls – on the lake next to the ruined palace (birthplace of Mary, Queen of Scots).
I can attest from a recent visit that the birds are still there, just as greedy and just as short-tempered when you have nothing to offer them.
(Yes, I know it’s blurred, but you try keeping your camera steady while you’re being dive-bombed by irate, hungry seagulls. Besides, I think it works; it certainly gives a sense of motion.)
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: In Flight
Category: Black & White Tagged: Birds, Black & White, Cee's Black & White Photo Challenge, Linlithgow, seagulls
Posted on June 29, 2018
This swan was sailing, as majestically as only swans can, on the waterway that runs through the formal gardens of Chateau Villandry.
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Birds
Category: Black & White Tagged: Birds, Black & White, Cee's Black & White Photo Challenge, Swan, Villandry
Posted on February 8, 2017
This week, Sue has set us a specific theme for Macro Moments – ‘Birds’. It’s pretty difficult to get a true macro shot of a bird, I should imagine, so here is a (very) tightly-cropped image of an owl which I took at a display of birds of prey last summer.
Fortunately, I was using my best lens, so I think it has managed to retain enough detail, despite the crop.
Nikon D800 with Nikkor 70-200mm ƒ2.8 lens at 200mm. 1/500 at ƒ4, ISO 100. Cropped and edited in Lightroom.
Macro Moments EWeek 30: Birds
Category: Macro Tagged: Birds, Birds of Prey, Eyes, Macro, Macro Moments, Owl
Posted on September 24, 2016
Birds of prey are on a perpetual quest for food – even those that have been trained to take part in this ‘spéctacle’ at St-Germain-de-Confolens earlier this summer.
Category: Weekly Photo Challenge Tagged: Birds, Birds of Prey, Quest, St-Germain-de-Confolens, Weekly Photo Challenge, weeklyphotochallenge
Posted on March 9, 2016
Two waterbirds – one behind the other – at Taronga Zoo, in Sydney.
Hugh’s Photo Challenge: Week 16
Category: Uncategorized Tagged: Behind, Birds, Hugh's Photo Challenge, Reflections, Sydney, Taronga Zoo, Water
Posted on February 28, 2016
Like everybody else, I was looking forward to the display of birds of prey at a chateau in the Dordogne – and when it came, I enjoyed it.
But I couldn’t help wondering, as I mooched about with my camera before showtime, what the birds themselves might think about it.
Weekly Photo Challenge: State of Mind
Category: Black & White, Weekly Photo Challenge Tagged: Birds, Birds of Prey, Black & White, Captivity, Owl, State of Mind, Weekly Photo Challenge