Lunch!

by | Jul 20, 2020 | Birds, Phuket, Southeast Asia, Wildlife

One of our resident yellow-vented bulbuls getting ready to lunch on a juicy morsel.

This shot was taken using my new Sigma 150-600mm f5-6.3 DG OS HSM C lens at 600mm. The bird was about 20 metres away and the image has been cropped in LR. I am blown away by the quality of this lens in combination with the Canon 90D and its 32Mpx sensor.

1/1000 at f8 ISO 800

Sky On Fire!

by | Jul 17, 2020 | Phuket, Southeast Asia, The Sky

The advantage of a very long lens is that you can almost climb inside a sunset. This shot, taken from our balcony on an evening with a particularly dramatic sunset, was one of my first with my new Sigma telephoto zoom. It’s one fabulous lens.

Canon 90D with Sigma 150-600mm f5-6.3 DG OS HSM C lens at 600mm. ISO1000 1/640 at f8. Handheld.

White-eyed Slaty Flycatcher

by | Jul 4, 2020 | African Birds, Birds, Kenya, Places, Wildlife

White-eyed Slaty Flycatcher (Melaenornis Fischeri). This race of the species has a particularly conspicuous broad eye-ring and is found in Kenya and parts of Uganda and Tanzania. (Ref. Birds of East Africa: Stevenson & Fanshawe; a truly excellent book). This one popped up in a garden in Nanyuki, Kenya some years ago.  

Excuse me!

by | Jun 27, 2020 | African Birds, Birds, Kenya, Wildlife

Shot many moons ago in a garden setting at Lolamaric, Laikipia in Kenya, a male Cordon-bleu bird seems to be getting the brush-off from his partner.

Canon EOS 1D MkII with Canon EF 300m f2.8 prime and Canon 1.4x extender. ISO 500 1/125 at f4.5