Purple Martin

Gallery: AvianPosted January 16, 20184,942 views4 comments

Here's a Purple Martin from Hood Canal, WA photographed this past June. We had some fun with birds coming in to land at their nesting boxes and circling in flight. The background is water.
Canon 1DX II, 500F4 1/3200 F6.3, iso 800, handheld, manual exposure

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Comment posted by Jake Alletson on January 16, 2018 at 10:21 PM

Swinging a 500 f4 by hand is hard work and catching this sort of speedster in flight is never easy with any lens. Nicely done to get this capture.

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Comment posted by Shirley Freeman on January 17, 2018 at 1:13 PM

An excellent image of this Purple Martin in flight, Nate! And hand held at 500 mm lens! Wonderful details and colors. I appreciate the info you and others shared on the Forum for Brian Murphy. Many of us can learn from that, I am sure.

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Comment posted by Dennis Plank on January 19, 2018 at 1:14 PM

Sweet catch, Nate. I should have spent time omn these instead of the herons. Detail is superb. I'm not sure about the dark blue sky-it looks a bit too dark.

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Comment posted by Nate Chappell on January 19, 2018 at 2:09 PM

Thanks Jake,Shirley and Dennis.
Dennis the background is water

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