Nature photography thread

Get ready for a bunch of photos from my work phone and camera!

Canon Powershot SX740 Point & Shoot, awesome for a little pocket camera, 40X optical zoom in a tiny package is impressive.

Trumpeter Swans

Red Tailed Hawk

Eagle Nest with a chick

'Merica!

Killdeer

Flying rats!

Here's a few more from the 80D with a 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM.

This little beauty was out hunting a snack under the parking lot lights.

Sunrise over Lake LaVerne

These are all off my work phone, a Blackberry KeyOne

Unexpected surprise

Baby soybeans

Black Eyed Susans on the banks of an irrigation reservoir

Rice

Cotton bloom

Furrow irrigated cotton

Polytube irrigating soybeans

More rice

Tree frog

Wild marshmallow

Bushy Aster on the banks of the same reservoir

Tickseed Sunflowers on the same reservoir

Cover crops

Baby cotton

Another tree frog, has turned brown to match his surroundings

One of our research farms allows the local community to pick the mustard and turnip greens they use as cover crops

More cover crops

Panorama of that same reservoir from about 3 days ago

I was setting up for a long telephoto shot of a still subject and it decided to move.

This is an old, hazy Konica Hexanon 52mm lens, fun to play with.

I'm fascinated, yet frustrated with my cheap 500mm mirror lens - sharp as a soup spoon at any distance.

I took that same legacy 52mm 1.8 lens out in the light rain this evening around the yard. Daffodil, Apple, and Dogwood:

Frozen Fog:

Here is a alligator lizard I found in the front yard.  Had no interest in moving, so I could get very close (about 6 inches).

Here is a regrowing burnt hillside from the big fires last year.  Just on the other side of the hill to the right of this shot is where Kobe's helicopter went into the hillside.

iPhone 11:

Another bird

I saw this guy crawling on my C10 yesterday.  I hadn't remembered seeing one since I was a kid but my said they're everywhere, oh well.

I've got a few, but here's one to start. That's my driveway.