Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Arizona”
The past few years I have gone down to the Portal area of the Chiricahua Mountains to photograph the hummingbirds. In previous years, I have brought with my numerous flashes so that I could freeze the motion of the wings. This past August / September I used natural light and let the wings blur. I don’t think one way is better than the other, just different. Just now getting caught up on my editing and adjusting from this past fall. This is a Broad-billed Hummingbird.
Our winter home has always had a fair number of Vermilion Flycatchers, however, this year there seems to be many more than normal! I fine with that as I find them to be very striking. The red is brighter than that of the Northern Cardinal – so bright!. This is a male who was bringing food to a nest with two chick in it.
Thought I would share a few images of animals from our Arizona winter backyard. This little desert cottontail had almost no fear of us, and often would hang around in the yard. he was appropriately named notches, and name we have used a few times over the years. Marana, Arizona.
It has been awhile since I have photographed bats. There were so many of them in the Chiricahua Mountains, that I started to play around with them again, although unsuccessfully since I didn’t have my proper trigger. Bats have really been hitting our humminging bird feeders in Marana, so set up again last night with good success.
On an occasional photo, I had ghosting, but not consistently. I have a feeling that might be due to the Camptraption flash triggers. I don’t think they are ideal for this – I used them since they stay “awake” all night. Tonight, I’ll try Phottix Ares II. The only drawback with them is that they turn off with a hour of inactivity. They shouldn’t be a problem, there are lots of bats!
It took a little bit of sense, and a number of nights with no success before I was finally able to capture a gray fox on this cool rock. @desertphotoretreat
Used camtraption trigger for the fox and flashes. I used four flashes here. One on each side of the camera, one to back light to fox (didn’t really do anything), and one of the background trees. This was an 8 second exposure for the sky.
Did another trail camera photo dump from the @desertphotoretreat Always fun to see what animals share the water hole. I knew a rattle snake was hanging around since I found a shedded skin a couple of week earlier. However, a snake has never shown up in the camera – probably because they are cold blooded. The reason this one showed was thanks to the gray fox.
You can see they interacted for a few minutes. At one point the snake curled up and raised its head while facing the fox. Ultimately it appears they were both just after a drink and in the last photo you can see the fox had no interest in the snake.
Read More
This gambel’s quail family with at least 12 brand new little babies just showed up to the water drip at the Desert Photo Retreat! Granted, it is mid day light, and photographed through the dirty, tinted window of our RV. But, too cute not to share!
Recent Comments