Photos (part 1 of 3) – Everything but the Osprey…

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As some of you know, I had on order of 1200 recent photos to dig through. Others may remember that I bought a new super-telephoto zoom lens in May. Because of the large numbers involved, I decided to split it into three posts:

Photos – Everything but the Osprey… (this post)
Photos – Osprey!
Photos – Lens Review

Quick background: After the initial photos I posted in May, I did some walk around in New Hampshire and a long weekend on Cape Cod over Memorial Day weekend (last weekend in May). This was a time I was doing a lot of testing and experimenting. I took about 400 photos. I then spent two weeks on Cape Cod, with a bit of time off, in the middle of June. I spent a lot of time on the kayak taking photos and a few walks in the salt marshes and woods. This came in at about 800 photos.

So here is a sampling of some of those photos, pretty much the “best of” of the 1200 that are not osprey photos – I had a ton of osprey photos ;) As you may notice, the lens can do a pretty good job with macros as well as pure telephoto.

Most of the images are from Cape Cod, but a few (cardinal, catbird, others) are New Hampshire. I had some issues with accidentally shifting settings on my camera, so many were taken in not ideal conditions…

Anyway, you can click on any image below to get a larger, more detailed view.

Hope you enjoyed!

31 thoughts on “Photos (part 1 of 3) – Everything but the Osprey…”

  1. Corina

    Wonderful photos! And now I know what a snapping turtle looks like. I’ll be sure to stay away if I ever encounter one. Doesn’t look very friendly!

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  4. Janet Alcorn

    These are gorgeous! We have yellow swallowtails here too, and I take pictures of them every chance I get. I’m jealous of your telephoto lens. I’ve tried taking pics of the red tailed hawks in our neighborhood, but even with my zoom lens, I can’t get close enough.

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    1. trentpmcd Post author

      Thanks! For some reason the red tail hawks do seem to always stay just out of reach, at least the ones in New Hampshire do. I catch them a little more often on Cape Cod, but they are usually just a little too far out….

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  5. Marilyn Armstrong

    I actually have had a Tiger Dragontail in my garden. If I have to have one single butterfly, this one is my favorite. I am trying to NOT take so many pictures. I think the breaking point came when we were in Arizona — the first time — and I came home with almost 10,000 pictures. I wound up deleting many of them because I was still working and I didn’t have the storage capacity (that, at least has improved) or the time to deal with them. I still regret not saving more of them. Now, instead of taking a dozen shots of each thing, I take two or three. I manage to keep most shoots to around 100 pictures. But of course while I’m taking pictures, Garry is taking pictures too, so by the time I’m through organizing and doing even minimal processing, a whole day is gone.

    And there I was, thinking retirement would leave me so much spare time!

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    1. trentpmcd Post author

      I have never heard them called that, I’ve always heard “Swallowtail” – I like Tiger Dragontail better! Where I grew up we used to see a lot of monarchs – I like the swallowtail pattern, but the color of the monarchs are so bold.
      I once dropped out of photography for almost two years because I was so far behind in looking at images! I do need to get better. What I also need to get better doing is editing them out on the spot – I do remove some photos, but not enough. I am getting better in whittling down the photos in photoshop, so am a lot more efficient there than I used to be, but I need to take less!

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    1. trentpmcd Post author

      Thanks, Diana! yes, it was such an odd thing until I figured out what was happening. I love being out in nature, and having a camera can increase that feeling since I have to look more :)

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    1. trentpmcd Post author

      Thanks, Dawn! Funny with the green heron – that was taken before I discovered I had been slowly increasing the f-stop/decreasing the aperture size and I was up to f18 when I took it! No wonder I had such a hard time getting a non-blurry shot ;)

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  13. Kit Dunsmore

    Typo alert (so you can delete this when you’re done): “I spent a lot of time on the kayak taking” (not takign). Love your photos.

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    1. trentpmcd Post author

      Thanks, Alethea. It seems like the year of turtle – I’ve seen more of them recently than ever before, including one just off my back step (at my Wilton house, not Cape). I have no idea why a painted turtle would be crawling out from under my back step, but there it was…

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      1. Alethea Kehas

        How interesting. I’ve been encountering them alongside, and sometimes in, the road. I’m trying to get the town to install some turtle crossing signs as there is a definite increase in crossings since they built a new safety complex with a new fire pond across the road from the old one.

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