Really, these boats were part of a local estate sale!! This just happened to be Part I – only the outdoor stuff. The man who lived here seemed quite adept at building and fixing things, as evidenced by the tools available, some of the comments overheard about those tools, and all the items for sale (including a tent load of outboard motors, perhaps ten of them, all lined up as in a retail display). “He’s down in Georgia now” was about the only bit of personal info I picked up from one of the estate sales guys.
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The great egrets are mostly gone from the marsh out back now, but for a few stragglers that visit now and again. They first showed up around April 2, and most stayed for a couple of weeks. Their numbers peaked at twenty-one on April 7th (about two-thirds juveniles), all in about a quarter of an acre. Our neighbors Johnny and Annie, who have been here eleven years, had never seen a whole colony visiting.
Here’s one shot of a juvenile with the rented lens I used (Canon 100-400mm and 1.4 Extender); it was perched on top of a telephone pole some twenty yards out.
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It occurred to me after the fact that I could have worked the nest building (see below) into this wider perspective, where more of the habitat is revealed. Consider it one that got away. It’s not the first, and won’t be the last. Two important lessons here: 1) the skill set that photography requires can get rusty, especially in the ability to see beyond formulaic approaches, and 2) ALWAYS try different perspectives. Doing the second helps with the first.
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The wind was steady at about 15 MPH left to right at the time, which made this osprey’s efforts all the more amazing. This was taken some seventy yards out with a Canon 100-400mm rental about an hour before it went back.
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A colony of great egrets has discovered the marsh out behind our neighbor’s house. There’s usually at least one out there all day, and sometimes as many as twenty, two thirds of them juveniles. Initially skittish on approach, they seem to be OK now, particularly with a fence and brush and phragmites between us.
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I don’t do much post-processing with my images, as I prefer to get the work done on the front end, and trust my camera’s ability to render a scene.
This shot, though, seemed to call out for significant cropping, as I felt the lawn leading up to the water diluted the drama of the scene. (I didn’t get closer in deference to the property owner.)
Though I wouldn’t consider the image below “much post-processing”, it is a significant crop from the original. I liked the cropped version initially, but now I’m back to the original composition, mostly for its greater sense of space, including that beautiful sky.
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