Driving through Port Augusta heading west a couple of weeks ago. Just had to stop at the Arid Lands Gardens on a very windy, but quite bright, day. (for a change)
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A lovely collection of gorgeous birds, Rick. :) Windy days can be frustrating with moving branches and unsettled birds, but you caught them wonderfully. (particularly like the Crested Pigeon all fluffed up)
The Arid Lands Botanic Garden is a most interesting place, Rick. It has a great display of Eremophilas which are wonderful Honeyeater attractors & require no watering at all so they're ideally suited to, well....arid lands, I suppose. The natural heathland adjacent to the Garden is an even better place to watch birds!
Agree Woko, an amazing variety of arid land plants and so well set out, can easily spend hours there though usually time limited as passing through.
Very nice set Rick.
I like that bright grey light as it doesn't blow the highlights out.
The Crested is my pick too, nice detail and well exposed.
Cheers
Cage
Hunter Valley NSW
Windy days can make focusing very tricky. What equipment did you use for those shots Rick?
Samford Valley Qld.
Hi Reflex,
My usual rig D600, 300/f4, 1.4 tc all nikon.
All shots were hand held, though I have recently bought a monopod but only used it once.
I have found that with more practice I am able to drop shutter speeds and still get crisp results.
Cheers
Beautiful set of shots Rick!!! So crisp and gorgeous .... may have been a dull day but they have come up a treat
Sunshine Coast Queensland