About the Image(s)

Last Saturday I took my kayak to a remote lake about 40 minutes from my house with my trusty OM-1 MK2 and 150-400mm lens to see if I could photograh some the bald eagles and herons I had seen there fishing this summer. It was a very foggy morning, so much so that for most of my trip I couldn’t see much of anything until I was so close the birds and we scared eachother. I flushed out the herons before I ever got close enough for good pictures, never saw the eagles, then runied an Amish guy‘s duck hunt. On my way back the fog lifted and I spent some time photographing a Belted Kingfisher that wouldn’t let me get close enough to fill the frame, but then allong the shore was a group of migrating warblers. Most were yellow rumped, but I got a couple frames of a black throated green and then this Cape May just put on a show for me. I prefeer them with their spring plumage, but even in the fall it‘s a striking bird to watch as it flitted through the dying fall vegitation surounding the lake.

My first edit used a tighter crop, but I ended up liking this wider view better as it showed the enviroment but still kept the bird as the main focus. I did darken the highlights behind the bird a bit, but they still bother me. Settings were 1/2000s @ f/5.6 ISO 10000 with my OM-1 MK2 with 150-400mm @ 500mm. Image was cropped, slightly warmed, slight vignette, and backround mask and darkening.