Hungry Pacific Swallows

[Garion]

Came across 3 or 4 of these juvenile Pacific Swallows sitting on a wire in the early morning sun, every now and then the parent bird would approach with a grub or insect in mouth to feed them, and they would erupt in a display of frantic wing flapping and noisy chirping in the hope that they would be the first to be fed.

Morning wing stretching exercise?

 

[gremlin]

Wow rare post from Sgt Garion...

Nice golden sidelighting from the morning sun, was those taken with flash?

 

[Garion]

Wow rare post from Sgt Garion...

Nice golden sidelighting from the morning sun, was those taken with flash?

Thanks for the comments dude!

Yes these were taken with flash, can't remember the setting though. Think its abt -2/3 FEC with flash extender.

 

[erwinx]

nice sidelighting. I like no.2.

 

[Fred]

Interesting series, keep shooting!

 

[skfoo]

Well done!

Keep shooting!

 

[Avatar]

Garion, nice to see you posting lately

These are pretty good attempts in capturing the juv pacific swallows. I noticed that the ambient lighting is not behind you, perhaps you wanna try to use natural light to your advantage the next round, I am sure it will make quite a difference here. Just my 2 cents pal, keep shooting!

 

[Garion]

Thanks erwinx, Fred, SK and Avatar for the comments!

These are pretty good attempts in capturing the juv pacific swallows. I noticed that the ambient lighting is not behind you, perhaps you wanna try to use natural light to your advantage the next round, I am sure it will make quite a difference here. Just my 2 cents pal, keep shooting!

Thanks for the invaluable pointer, my friend. Will take note of that next time round. Hope we can all go shooting together again sometime soon. Cheers.

 

[kayaro888]

Nice action shorts :thumbsup:

 

[rncw]

very nice...

2 thumbs up...

:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

truely undisputed....

 

[Garion]

Thanks kayaro888.

very nice...

2 thumbs up...

:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

truely undisputed....

Thanks. You are also the truely undisputed "king of zoo shots" lar. :blah:

 

[rncw]

Thanks kayaro888.

Thanks. You are also the truely undisputed "king of zoo shots" lar. :blah:

how i wished ..... but in reality...i'm not.... :cry: people like megaweb's much much better.... the "king of zoo shots" is julian w ... no one else.... :bigeyes:

but you're different.... :blah:

 

[Harlequin]

well done..keep shooting man...those early wake up calls definately do bring a different perspective to nature shoot. The taxi ride is definately worth it.

Very familiar power line though.... :devil:

 

[Garion]

well done..keep shooting man...those early wake up calls definately do bring a different perspective to nature shoot. The taxi ride is definately worth it.

Very familiar power line though.... :devil:

Thanks man....yes you are right, the sacrifices are worth it.....sometimes you never know what you are going to get out there...nature surprises us all the time...

Hahah....yes that power line...

 

[chngpe01]

Good action shot especially the last three. Well done :thumbsup:

 

[Garion]

Good action shot especially the last three. Well done :thumbsup:

Thanks PE!