Thursday, May 29, 2014

Today's goldfinch

MALE GOLDFINCH, GREEN, MICHIGAN, MAY 24, 2014

Pentax K-3
Pentax 55-300 at 300mm
1/500 sec. f7.1
ISO 400

My strategy now is to sit in a lawn chair about 15 feet from the feeders and just hold a motionless pose with the camera and long lens close to my eye. Within five minutes all the spooked birds will return, and if I move the lens ever so slowly I can catch a specimen in a closeup.

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