The Osprey That Catches My Eye

 Every morning I stand on our balcony, taking on the view and the breeze that flows in.

Every morning some bird flies around.

Some of those birds are just plain blackbirds, others are pigeons and some others are pelicans. 

And every morning I try to do a few "clicks" just for the fun of it.

Some of those clicks are random settings, others I try to remind myself of what Rodney taught me and follow those suggestions.

This particular morning the osprey who lives down the lane...literaly, was my model and I tried to follow Rodney's suggestions.

I used my Nikon D750 with the 500mm lens.

I used apperture priority settings and each photo's metadeta is such:

1/2500 sec. f/8 500mm, ISO 400

They passed through Lightroom only to be converted from raw to jpeg. 

While the setting is constant the lighting is not hence the variance in the coloration and light. 

Basically the camera was in control and all I was doing was tracking the bird. Something I don't normally do because I like to be in control hence never use anything but manual settings.

 This guy flew in and around, and I tried to keep up with his flight. 

Somewhat successful.

I know where he/she and his mate live, a few blocks from our residence, perched somewhat way up there.

Didn't have my long zoom lens on this occasion so clicked with a Z 50mm...as I said......somewhat way up there.

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The Osprey Nest

 

In my last post , found here, I mentioned looking for the nest of the osprey. 

The osprey that hovered around our condo on a regular basis.

 

I had seen his flight path and sort of had an idea of where the nest might be.

Searching I went and found the nest way high, high above a telephone pole.

I noticed that there were actually two of them sharing the nest.

My goal now was to try and capture their face rather than their derrier.

Therefor,  I waited patiently.

 

And finally one of them looked down at me. 

 

 Mission accomplished.

 

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Mr. O is it?

Heard a "whistling" this morning. Looked around and up, then saw this beauty. 

 

Naturally, the camera came out. 

 

I clicked quite a few until he saw me and decided...enough of this clicking without asking...that's when he flew off.

Maybe tomorrow I'll be able to catch him in flight or.....not 😉

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