I am still going through old images whenever I have extra time. Today I came across a few more from a trip in May 2010 to the Hummer House Nature Retreat, at Christoval, Texas. Here are a couple of those gems.
Bathing Painted Bunting
I should have entered this in Karma’s Rainbow colored Photo hunt. 🙂 The Painted Bunting is truly a hand-painted masterpiece from the Man himself.
- Canon EOS 7D
- Canon 500mm IS lens with 1.4 tele-converter
- 1/640 sec. @ f9 – minus 2/3 EV adjustment
- ISO 250
- Lens focal distance – 700mm
- Metering – partial
- Aperture priority
Eastern Phoebe
It is amazing that I have never posted a photo of an Eastern Phoebe before this. It could be that they are hard to get close to, and I have usually seen them only from a distance. For both of these shots, I was inside an air-conditioned observation room and photographing through a plate glass window.
- Canon EOS 7D
- Canon 500mm IS lens with 1.4 tele-converter
- 1/400 sec. @ f7.1
- ISO 500
- Lens focal distance – 700mm
- Metering – partial
- Aperture priority
Click on either image to see an enlargement.
Texas Tweeties by Bob Zeller 