All eyes on me! Or at least on my lenses …
Only one of the owners of these eyes can fly. Guess which and click on the eyes to open the full picture. Animals shot at the Zurich Zoo, Switzerland, with a Nikon 70-200 VR II
Shopping list for “ambrosia” bee-bread: a photographic recipe from the experts!
First some pollen … avoid pollen into eyes, it is painful … No bags needed, it sticks to body hairs!
Then grab the nectar … throw up some … mix it with pollen and stick it on the legs!
And on and on until there is space on your limbs! A hundred of fungi and a dozen of bacteria are the secret ingredient to finally produce bee-bread, or ambrosia, as some of you call it. Enjoy and click on picture strips to magnify.
Secret life of birds? Not with a 200 mm lens on a D800!
Things are not always as they seem. Find it out by clicking on each picture.
Of sex and birds: a 70-200 mm f/2.8 VR II photo-poem made in Zürisee
I was waiting for you my master …
Under a curtain of white drops
I will give myself to you, my love.
And what you gifted me with your beak (on my neck)
And what you made me with your feet (on my back)
Will be lost in time, like droplets in the lake.
Click here for the full love R-rated story reportage or on each picture for bigger size. About some more feelings, I love this lens. Pictures shot against the sun at 200 mm, f/5, 1/1250, ISO 100.
Shoot the Alpine Chough! With a Nikon AF-S 70-200mm f/2.8G ED-IF VR II
A Alpine Chough (the bird of these pictures) can fly on average 50 km per hour.
When it flies by a few meters away from your objective with wind on the tail (!), be sure to use > 1/3000 timings.
These are 3 (almost) not blurred pictures out of 20 I shot. Nevertheless, please appreciate (click on pictures to zoom) the visible black on black plumage on the flying bird. To avoid the “full black” crow body I used spot metering instead of the usual average metering.
