Category: Wildlife

Monarch Butterfly

This Monarch Butterfly was hanging around the grounds of Fort Pickens located on the West end of Santa Rosa Island in Florida. With this shot I used the Sony A7RM4 with the FE 70-200mm F2.8 GM lens along with the 1.4 Teleconverter handheld. Post Processing in Lightroom Classic.

Taking Off

Photographed this Brown Pelican as it was taking off from the bay after doing a dive for its meal. Location was the bay near Fort Pickens on the West end of Santa Rosa Island in Florida. Captured with the Sony A9 using the Sony 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS lens. This was a handheld shot 1/2000 sec at f/6.3 ISO 640. Post processing in Lightroom Classic along with Luminar 4. Cheers!

The Stare

This shorebird was staring me down as I photographed it along the shoreline near Fort Pickens located on the West end of Santa Rosa Island in Florida. To capture this shot I was actually laying flat on the ground to get to the same leval of this bird. Photographed with the Sony A7RIV using the Sony FE 70-200mm F2,8 GM lens. Camera setting ere 1/1600 sec at f/4.0, ISO 200. Post processing with Adobe Lightroom Classic. Cheers!

Pelican Take Off

This Brown Pelican was about to take off from the bay near Fort Pickens on the West end of Santa Rosa Island in Florida. Captured this shot using the Sony A7RIV with Sony FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS lens. Camera setting for this handheld shot were 1/400 sec at f/6.3 with IOS 100. Post processing with Adobe Lightroom Classic and Skylum Flex. Have great Wednesday. Cheers!

Meal Time!

This seagull was enjoying a morning meal on the dock behind Joe Patti's Seafood & Market early this Sunday morning. With this shot I used the Sony A9 with the new Sony FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS Lens. Had the camera set to crop sensor mode to give me a 900mm reach. It only gave me a 10.53 MB file. Once I recieve the Sony A7RiV using the same setting will give me about a 26MB file. Camera setting were 1/500 sec at f/6.3, ISO 100 with camera mounted on a monopod. Post processing with Lightroom Classic and Skylum Flex. I will say so far even though I have only had this lens a couple of days I am enjoying using it. The tracking with this lens on the A9 is great. I do enjoy the internal zoom on this lens. Still need to do more testing. But overall it's definitely worth the price. Cheers!

The Wood Stork

The Wood Stork was in the precess of fixing it's nest on the grounds of the Alligator Farm in St. Augustine, Fllorida as I captured this pose. Captured this shot in Late April 2019 using the Sony A9 with the Sony FE 70-200mm F2.8 GM lens along with the 1.4X teleconverter handheld. Canera setting were 1/2000 sec at f/4.0, ISO 125 shot handhelded. Post Processing with Lightroom Classic and Luminar Flex. Have a great Saturday. Cheers!