Who’s who
Still working through photos from the Raptor Centen.
It seemed only fair since the raptors were so heavily photographed some of the photographers should end up in front of a camera as well. :-)
PhotoWILD: Still a challenge the second time
Photographing “birds of prey” during an event like PhotoWILD, Carolina Raptor Center, might seem like “shooting sitting ducks” (easy targets), and it may be compared to photographing them in the wild, which I have no experience with, but there’s still a bit of challenge to it as I’m still discovered after two such events.
Unexpected and creative contributions
Yesterday, two friends and fellow bloggers, Paul and Tom and I attended the Photo Wild event at the nearby Carolina Raptor Center. Paul posted a very good synopsis of the event so I won’t rehash words here about the event.
Barn Owl – Autumn Wreath
It seemed a good autumn image…
My what’s going on camera kit
I’d travelled to photograph the raptors at the Carolina Raptor Center with a very conservative camera gear kit — my Nikon D700 with a AF-S 28-300mm f/3.5-5.6 G VRII lens mounted and a 24-70mm f/2.8 G ED lens in a bag as a secondary choice. That was everything, and the 24-70mm lens never left the bag. I call this my lets see what’s going on camera kit.
Photographing Raptors
This was weekend was the “Fall PhotoWILD” event at the Carolina Raptor Center in Huntersville, NC. On both Saturday and Sunday they close the center to the general public in the mornings and provide amateur and professional photographers, who have previously signed, access to photograph 20 different raptors in unique settings each day.