This past week I've been at home resting up after yet another concussion so this morning I decided to get some fresh air, and my first waterfowl photos of the new year. It was raining in North Van so I headed to Ladner in hopes of better weather. It was raining there when I first arrived but it stopped shortly after and actually cleared up a bit and presented me with some amazing light...for about 45 seconds. Okay that might be a bit of an exaggeration about how little time I had decent light, but it honestly didn't last very long.
For some reason the ducks weren't flying much today. It could have been weather related but I'm not 100% sure. I mean with the overcast conditions it wasn't optimal for flight shots anyways so I wasn't too disappointed. So without them flying, I decided to just focus on behavioral shots. Preening, fluffing their feathers, diving, stretching...stuff like that. Here are some of the shots.
1/750 @ f/5.6, 400mm, ISO 1000
1/3000 @ f/5.6, 400mm, ISO 640, -0.5ev
1/750 @ f/5.6, 400mm, ISO 640
1/1000 @ f/5.6, 400mm, ISO 640
1/1000 @ f/5.6, 400mm, ISO 640
1/2000 @ f/5.6, 370mm, ISO 640
1/2000 @ f/5.6, 300mm, ISO 640
When the weather did finally clear for a few minutes I did happen to get a flight shot...here it is
1/3000 @ f/5.6, 400mm, ISO 640
The rest of the photos from my day can be found here
Thanks for reading,
Brandon Broderick
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