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I haven’t shared much lately as I have been a bit busy traveling between Alaska and Arizona. This was sunset last night – I’m back in Alaska right now as our boiler heat system died. Looking forward to getting it going again soon, as it is getting pretty cold inside! 🙂
About a week ago a bat flew within inches of my face! I assumed it was catching bugs attracted to my headlamp. Fortunately, a few days before this, I had read a book about bats in which the author mentioned that bats may fly close to your head, but don’t worry, they won’t hit you. I hope he is right! Now bats in the headlight beam are almost a nightly occurrence. So, I decided to put a camera setup at my hummingbird feeders at the same time I had one at the waterhole. The bats really hits the sugar water hard!
This was with an Olympus E-M1X, the 40-150 f/2.8 lens at 55mm and f/8, bulb mode for 14.82 seconds, a Cognisys Sabre trigger, two Godox flashes at 1/32 power and Phottix Ares II flash triggers / receivers.
The first couple of nights I was using my Camtraption triggers, but for some reason, was getting slight ghosting even with a single flash. The Phottix Aries II are awesome triggers, although I don’t usually use them at night since they will turn off after 4 hours of no activity. The bats come around enough, that this isn’t a problem.
I normally wouldn’t share an out of focus image, but this is too cool not to share. I had my camera trap setup at the water hole when this bird swooped in and grabbed a mouse! I set my focus for the edge of the water, and because I was maximizing the stars, I had a fairly big aperture of f/4, thus limited depth of field. The bird was well beyond my focus point.
I believe this is a great-horned owl. We have a pair on the property, along with a pair of western screech owls. Based on the size, I’m thinking great-horned, but open to other opinions.
Olympus E-M1 II, 12-100 lens at 15mm at f/4, 20 second exposure, two Godox flashes at 1/64 power, Camptraption motion and flash transmitter / receiver triggers. Combining wildlife with the stars only works on near moonless nights where there isn’t ambient light.
A morning, mourning dove yesterday at sunrise. So close – just 14 minutes earlier a gray fox came in for a drink. Too bad the fox wasn’t just a bit later. Maybe it is just as well, as the rock in the center of the frame would have made me crazy. I had put it there in the dark to help with focus, but then in the dark forgot to move it off out of frame. 🙂
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