Soft sunrise

The soft sunrise of this morning. I used the pine pollen in the water to create some foreground interest.

* Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 17-40mm/f4 @ 17 mm; ISO-200, f16, 1/5s; +0.7 stop; 2 stop ND hard gradient filter; tripod.

Little Grebe

This evening I brought my 500mm lens to my local patch and left my landscape gear at home. Here is a Little Grebe (Tachybaptus ruficollis/Dodaars) in its habitat. I often saw or heard them, now it is time to photograph them. No spectacular action but I hope you like the colors (at least I did when making this photo).

* Canon EOS 7D, 500mm/f4; ISO-400, f5.6, 1/640s; -0.3 stop; bean bag.
* Canon EOS 7D, 500mm/f4; ISO-400, f5, 1/160s; bean bag.

Big stopper

The weather of yesterday afternoon: Clouds and windy. I like it when there is turmoil in the air. Ideal circumstances to experiment with long exposure times (91 seconds in the photo below, Lee big stopper filter used).

* Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 17-40mm/f4 @ 17 mm; ISO-200, f16, 91s; 2 stop ND hard gradient filter; tripod.

Plover turnaround

 Result of my close-to-home Little Ringed Plover (Charadrius dubius/Kleine Plevier) project: ♂ making a nest hole in the sand. This is done by scratching the soil with his longs legs and turning around. Several nest holes are prepared this way. In the coming days I expect the ♀ to pick her favorite location to start breeding ...

* Canon EOS 7D, 500mm/f4; ISO-400, f5, 1/125s; frying pan groundpod.
* Canon EOS 7D, 500mm/f4; ISO-400, f5, 1/125s; frying pan groundpod.

Spring flowers IV

Nature explodes, busy times for nature photographers. As you have probably seen in the previous uploads I focus more on flowers this year. It is a lot of fun to capture all these colors in and around the village where I live. Here is Water-violet (Hottonia palustris/Waterviolier) against the sunset reflection and Common Cottongrass (Eriophorum angustifolium/Veenpluis) just before sunrise the next day.

* Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 300mm/f4; ISO-400, f5.6, 1/640s; -0.3 stop; tripod with beanbag.
* Canon EOS 5D Mark II, 17-40mm/f4 @ 17 mm; ISO-200, f16, 1/2s; 3 stop ND hard gradient filter; tripod.