Revealing the Hidden Beauty of Colorado
Environment:Start Time: 2:40 PM Temperature: 41 degrees Sky: Sunshine and puffy clouds and breeze Sightings:Birds: Goldeneyes, Mallards, Gulls, American Coot, Canada Geese, Dark-eyed Juncos, American White Pelican, Belted Kingfisher, Red-tailed Hawk, Pied-billed Grebe, American Kestrel, Hairy WoodpeckerCritters: Tree Squirrels Gear: Nikon D5600, 55-200mm; KolariVision Lumix LS100
Environment:Start Time: 2:15 PM Temperature: 61 degrees Sky: Sunshine clouds – little breeze Sightings:Birds: Common Goldeneye, Mallards, Gulls, American Coot, White-crowned Sparrows, Canada Geese, Red-tailed HawkCritters: None Gear: KolariVision Lumix ZS100
Environment:Start Time: 3:05 PM Temperature: 55 degrees Sky: Sunshine with few clouds. Today’s outing was another visit to the South shore of the Arkansas River. Birding was not particularly exciting with only brief appearances of what is probably going to be the standard set of avian subjects. I got a couple of shots of a Great Blue Heron and a Killdeer. Fortunately I also brought along my infrared camera which kept me entertained. I got a number of shots featuring the Arkansas River and its surrounding Winter scenery – one of which is today’s featured image. A second example is…
Environment:Start Time: 8:30 AM Temperature: 53 degrees Sky: Sunshine, clouds and intermittent breeze. Check out last year’s walk on this day! Sightings:Birds: Mallards, Blue-winged Teal, Starlings, Northern Flicker, Gulls, Great Blue Heron, Killdeer, American Kestrel, Belted KingfisherCritters: Prairie Dogs, Grasshoppers, Mule Deer, Tree Squirrel Gear: KolariVision Lumix LS100
Environment:Start Time: 7:20 AM Temperature: 58 degrees Sky: Sunshine, few clouds, some haze, no breeze. Check out last year’s walk on this day! Sightings:Birds: Mallards, Osprey, Double Crested Cormorants, Canada Geese, Mourning Doves, Starlings, Western Kingbird, Red-tailed Hawk, Lesser Goldfinch, American Kestrel, Western Wood Pewee, Yellow Warbler, Killdeer, Gull, Great Blue Heron, Northern Flicker, Belted Kingfisher Critters: Cabbage Butterfly, Prairie Dogs, Mule Deer, Goldenrod Soldier Beetle, Spotted Cucumber Beetle, Grasshopper, Tree Squirrel, Rock Squirrel Gear: Nikon D5600, 55-300mm
Environment:Start Time: 7:20 AM Temperature: 62 degrees Sky: Sunshine, few clouds, some haze, no breeze. Check out last year’s walk on this day! Pleasant conditions prevail though the wildfire haze is starting to creep back into the scene. Very little bird action to record. I caught one little Rock Squirrel exploring the erosion control rocks along the bank of the Arkansas River. I did shoot another Wild Sunflower but I won’t subject you to that. What I did do today was bring along my infrared camera to see if I could get something interesting. I think I did. Shooting in…
Environment:Start Time: 9:45 AM Temperature: 46 degrees Sky: Sunshine, high thin clouds, no breeze Much better light this morning though the birding opportunities were about as bad as yesterday. The biggest bird I saw was a distant Osprey. Since the colors were popping I tried to come up with some foliage shots even though I was configured for birding on the GX-85. My best (least worst) shot is the featured image above. I was also carrying my Kolari ZS100 infrared camera this morning and I did get some interesting results with that. The image posted below is what the Autumn…
Posted above is a new infrared image that I shot October 10, 2020. This was shot with my Kolari Lumix ZS100 Full Spectrum conversion. The image was shot in Raw format using a custom white balance set in camera using a 590 nm filter pointed at an 18% gray card. Once home I developed the raw file using Affinity Photo adjusting exposure, contrast, black-point, shadows/highlights, lens correction, a touch of sharpening and an S-curve for added contrast. Once the image was developed I added only a channel mixer adjustment to swap the red and blue channels to get the great…
Infrared Photography For reasons truly unknown to me, I recently decided to begin exploring the mysteries of infrared photography. I think I bumbled onto the topic while searching on YouTube for something else entirely. Fifty plus years ago, when I first got started taking pictures, infrared photography was a very exotic medium requiring special (expensive) film and extra fussing to achieve proper focus. Now in the digital age of photography…… it’s still expensive but in a different way. Now you need to acquire a modified digital camera that can “see” the infrared spectrum. The images you capture need to be…