Sandhill Synchronicity

I recently returned from four days of shooting at Bosque del Apache with Dave Sparks. Weather was mild to warm in the afternoons, but hovering around freezing at sunrise. A bit early in the season as far as populations, but there were loads of snow geese and a fairly respectable number of Sandhills, also the fall colors were still very nice. Unfortunately on many occasions I had difficulty getting my AF to aquire sharp focus, mostly I think due to my inability to properly track the subjects. Surely Dave did much better than I did, and I look foward to some of his from the trip. My success rate for getting even acceptable BIF images was shamefully low, so it's obvious that I have lots to learn.


This was shot at one of the crane pools in early light on my third morning. I would have wished for a bit more separation between the wing tip and the feet of the lower bird, but overall I liked the overlap, and the image is pretty sharp compared to countless others I attempted.

Olympus E-3, ZD300 F2.8, Wimberley I, ISO200 0.0EV, 1/2500 f4, ~57% crop