Viera Wetlands and Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge Revisited

Black skimmer in the rain

As I am sitting in front of my computer going over old slides and thinking of times in the past, while waiting until New Year's Eve for my next injection in the back open that this will take away my pain and I can get out and do more than I have been doing.

Today I started viewing some of my photos from my three week trip to Florida with my son that I did just after I retired.  All the pictures that I am going to show you today were taken with a Nikon D300s and a Sigma 150-500 lens.  All the pictures were reprocessed in light room, Photoshop, and with Topaz plug-ins.  By reprocessing the pictures I brought out more detail in them at least to my eyes and on my computer.  My computer display is calibrated with the color monki display by X-rite.  Never give up on old pictures as new programs come down the line, you can be surprised on what you can do to improve a picture.

This set of photographs were taken at the Viera wetlands, and at Merritt Island national wildlife refuge.  Right now I wish I was down there joining everybody at these locations to photograph all the wonderful wild life that are in those areas.

Anhinga

Northern Pintail

reddish egret fishing

Woodstock

Motteled duck

Great Blue Heron Flying

Blue Winged Teal

Anhinga

American Bittern

Nine-Banded Armadillo

roseate spoonbills in the rain

roseate spoonbills flying

Royal Tern

Tricolored Heron

photographing in the rain can give you great pictures. Just be prepared and have coverings for your camera and lens.  In fact, my last trip to Costa Rica had a number of days with rain and what was still able to get wonderful pics's.


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Gatorland, Revisited

Woodstock in flight

About the only thing I can say about being sick with bronchitis for a week is that it is allowing me to re-keyword many of my earlier photographs, which lost their keywords when I switched from my original desktop to a new desktop.  However, what I have discovered was a number of photographs that I did not process.  Here are a few photographs from a Gatorland workshop that I did with Robert Amoruso of Wildscape Images.  It was an intense two days of photography, starting at 7 AM and going through to 7 PM, with a break for lunch and a lecture in the midday.

All the pictures were taken with a Nikon D300s, Nikon 200-400 mm F4 lens on a tripod.  I post processed the pictures first in Lightroom, then edited in Photoshop 1st utilizing the clone stamp and contents aware to remove blemishes and distractions, then I created a second layer and converting it into a smart object, and utilized my two favorite Topaz plug-ins; Clarity and Detail.  When I was finished I re-transferred the picture back into Lightroom.

Snowy Egret in breeding plumage

Tricolored Heron in breeding plumage

Great Egret fishing. In this picture the wings are blurred and I like it that way because it gives the sense of action

American alligator love

Great Egret in breeding plumage, back lit

Male Great Egret presenting a step to a female Great Egret

Limpkin on a branch calling