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A day for the birds.

It was a fine sunny winter’s day, 17 C0. Yes! That’s a fine winter’s day here in Tasmania/Australia although 03/June is only the third day of winter; it doesn’t get better than that. I had some spare time on my hand and decided to go to a small lake at the outskirts of town Bird shooting, action Herons are action Heroes! It seems to be the ‘IN thing’ to shoot a Heron eating a fish, so there was my self-imposed brief.
I set the Nikon D300 up as per the bird’s t… Continue

Bird Watching Tutorial
By Francois Cleroux - Canada
Helmut Samerski - Australia
A Foreword
This tutorial was prompted by a post from Francois in which he listed valuable points about photographing birds under the title ‘Bird Photography Tips’.
Francois listed 17 suggestions, ranging from camera settings to dos and don’ts of bird photography.
Francois has kindly allowed me to be an administrator of the bird group and he has invited all of us to contribute to the post.… Continue

Actually I was trying to photo-shoot some garden birds through the kitch… Continue

I did not have a tripod with me when I went trout fishing yesterday but coming home to the boat ramp, the last boat came to shore as the sky presented itself in beautiful colour. I put my Nikon D300 on a solid tree stump base but hand held it.
This picture was taken in 'P' mod… Continue