Windy Marazion

Quick visit to Marazion, captured some windsurfings pictures before the tide turned and conditions went very poor rather quickly. So I headed over to the marsh area, it was extremly windy and then the sun went in; so nothing in my favour: However on a plus side it wasn't raining or snowing!!!!  Did mange a portrait shot of a Heron before the sun disappeared completely and a shot of a Rook bathing.

Rook Bathing: Exif: Canon 1d MK111, 600mm lens with 1.4x teleconverter (840mm), Aperture Priority, F5.6, 1/60sec, ISO 400, + 1 stop.

Heron: Exif: Canon 1d MK111, 600mm lens with 1.4x teleconverter (840mm), Aperture Priority, F5.6, 1/320sec, ISO 400, +/- 0 stop.

Ryan's Field

Visited Ryan's Field, twice in two days. First was a morning call got up first thing for the surfers but despite good surf the lazy beggars all stayed in bed. So off to plan B and a visit to Ryan's Field.  Full of geese, lapwing, curlew etc. And this afternoon not as busy but worth the stop to get out of the rain!!!! Spoonbill still there I seen it by tempest at 4 pm today. Kingfisher also made an appearance but I missed the shot. Well onto the images there are a few today.

Greenshank: Exif: Canon 1d MK111, 600mm lens with 1.4x teleconverter (840mm), Aperture Priority, F5.6, ISO 400, 1/1600 sec +0.3 stop

Dunnock: Exif: Canon 1d MK111, 600mm lens, Aperture Priority, F4, ISO 400, 1/1600 sec +/-0 stop

Starlings/Lapwings: Exif: Canon 1d MK111, 600mm lens with 1.4x teleconverter (840mm), Aperture Priority, F5.6, ISO 400, 1/1600 sec +/-0 stop

Bat Tailed Godwits: Exif: Canon 1d MK111, 600mm lens with 1.4x teleconverter (840mm), Aperture Priority, F5.6, ISO 400, 1/1250 sec +0.7 stop

Teal/Spoonbill:  Exif: Canon 1d MK111, 600mm lens with 1.4x teleconverter (840mm), Aperture Priority, F5.6, ISO 400, 1/800 sec +0.7 stop

Snipe: Exif: Canon 1d MK111, 600mm lens with 1.4x teleconverter (840mm), Aperture Priority, F5.6, ISO 400, 1/400 sec +0.7 stop (Marazion)

Curlew: Exif: Canon 1d MK111, 600mm lens with 1.4x teleconverter (840mm), Aperture Priority, F5.6, ISO 400, 1/2000 sec +/-0 stop

Curlew: Exif: Canon 1d MK111, 600mm lens with 1.4x teleconverter (840mm), Aperture Priority, F6.3, ISO 400, 1/1250 sec +0.7 stop

Curlew: Exif: Canon 1d MK111, 600mm lens with 1.4x teleconverter (840mm), Aperture Priority, F7.1, ISO 400, 1/1250 sec +0.7 stop

Magpie: Exif: Canon 1d MK111, 600mm lens with 1.4x teleconverter (840mm), Aperture Priority, F7.1, ISO 400, 1/100 sec + 1 stop

Robin: Exif: Canon 1d MK111, 600mm lens with 1.4x teleconverter (840mm), Aperture Priority, F7.1, ISO 400, 1/250 sec +0.3 stop

Redshank:  Exif: Canon 1d MK111, 600mm lens with 1.4x teleconverter (840mm), Aperture Priority, F5.6, ISO 400, 1/1600 sec +0.7 stop

Shots from the Weekend

Not a great deal around at present so back to pictures of the resident birds.

Magpie: Exif: Canon 1d mk111, 600mm lens with 1.4x teleconverter (840mm), Aperture Priority, F5.6, 1/125 sec, ISO 400, +1 Stop

This bird being black and white is an awkward one to expose even with raw. Very dull light on this day mean't I would have to over expose to get any detail in the shadow area, blowing the highlights. Which is exactly what happened. I will get it right one day just a question of good light and tweaking the exposure

Magpie Again.  This is the same image but it has been through an imagenomic noise filter so you can see the subtle differences in the images.  It is really useful for cleaning up background noise/digital artifacts.

Gull: Exif: Canon 1d mk111, 600mm lens with 1.4x teleconverter (840mm), Aperture Priority, F5.6, 1/1000 sec, ISO 400, -1/3 Stop

Heron: Exif: Canon 1d mk111, 600mm lens , Aperture Priority, F5, 1/640 sec, ISO 400, +/- 0 Stop

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Blue Tit: Exif: Canon 1d mk111, 600mm lens,  Aperture Priority, F5, 1/1600 sec, ISO 400, +1 Stop.  This blue tit was back lit making things really awkward to get a good shot, just managed it I think! I added the high light in the eye in photoshop (cheating I know) without this the picture would look dead. Again below is the same picture but with a noise filter added.

Blue Tit;  as above but passed through the imagenomic noise filter.

Spoonbill at Maza

At last a bad run of luck seemed to be over today when I walked into Marazion Marshes just after a Spoonbill had landed on the Marsh a few meters from me.  It stayed throughout the day managing to fly when I was walking around (typical). But patience payed off today and I also got it in flight. Exif data etc will follow later.

Barren Spell Continues

Set off to Stihians today as the forecast was bright sunny spells, how spectacularly incorrect that was. It was almost dark at Stiths thanks to the low level cloud. (which was staying put) So I headed off to Marazion in search of better lighting (only just) Checked out the beach but again no waders or anything new on the Marsh either! Wish I had stayed in and watched the footy, then again I didn't when my neighbour gleefully told me we lost 2-0. Todays images are below, I did manage to get to about 5 meters from a Stonechat, found a Water Pipet standing on one leg and realised its claw is injured/infected. The picture of the stonechat looks superb full size. Pictures below.

Lapwing: Exif: Canon 1dmk111, 600mm f4 lens with 1.4x teleconverter (840mm) Aperture Priority F5.6, 1/320 sec, ISO 400, +0.7 stop

Water Pipet: Exif: Canon 1dmk111, 600mm f4 lens with 1.4x teleconverter (840mm) Aperture Priority F5.6, 1/1250 sec, ISO 400, +/- 0 stop

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Water Pipet Injury (inset): Exif: Canon 1dmk111, 600mm f4 lens with 1.4x teleconverter (840mm) Aperture Priority F5.6, 1/1600 sec, ISO 400, +/- 0 stop

Stonechat:  Exif: Canon 1dmk111, 600mm f4 lens with 1.4x teleconverter (840mm) Aperture Priority F5.6, 1/400 sec, ISO 400, +0,7 stop

Two from Two

Well it has been a very unproductive last two outings, coupled with awful lighting for the photography, hence there are only two worthwhile images for the blog today.  Hopefully things will pick up soon and winter visitors will start to flood in. I would of had more images but for the bl--dy dog walkers not controlling their dogs at Marazion beach, allowing them to chase the birds etc. On this occasion the idiot owners were about 2000 yds away calling on their dog, I think the dog only returned to them when he realised his transport was going to leave without him, otherwise he was content to ignore their shouts and continue to hassle the birdlife.

Magpie: Exif: Canon 1D MK111, 600mm lens with 1.4x teleconverter (840mm), Aperture Priority, F5.6, ISO 400, 1/160 sec, +1 Stop

Kingfisher: Exif: Canon 1D MK111, 600mm lens with 1.4x teleconverter (840mm), Aperture Priority, F5.6, ISO 400, 1/200 sec, +0.7 Stop