Bird Photos, Random Favorites
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 "Razorbills, Menemsha" Photograph |
 "m. adult red phalarope" |
 "f. adult red phalarope" |
 "Storm Petrel Meets Chaplin" Digital Photo |
 "Red-necked Phalaropes" |
 "Wilson's Storm Petrels" Digital Photo |
 "Coops in Ott" |
 "November Hummer" |
 "November Hummer 2" |
 "RC Kinglet with YB Sapsucker" |
 "Ruby-crowned drinking" |
 "Yellow-billed cuckoo" |
 "YB Cuckoo" |
 "Blue-Headed Vireo" |
 "Blue-headed Vireo No.2" |
 "Vireo No.3" |
 "Long-billed Dowitchers" Digital SLR |
 "Long-billed Dowitchers 3" Digital SLR |
 "Piping Plover chick" |
 "Great Blue on Monhegan" |
 "Avocet, Norton Point" |
 "Awesome Razorbill, Menemsha Pond" |
 "Great Egret, Shark Valley, FL" |
 "Black-backed Woodpecker, PEI" |
 "Herring Gull, breeding adult" |
 "Sooty Shearwater off the Gay Head Cliffs" |
 "Snowy Plovers at Malibu" |
 "Bosque Del Apache, NM dawn" |
 "Eel Pond Turnstone No 1" |
 "Willet straight on, Sengekontacket" |
 "Laugher" |
 "Subadult Gannet" |
 "Humpback snack" |
 "Long-tailed Jaeger" |
 "Greater Shearwater" |
 "Another youngish Gannet" |
 "Black-crowned Night Heron" |
 "Yelow-crowned Night Heron" |
 "White-faced Glossy Ibis" |
 "Marbled Godwits" |
 "Ruddy Turnstone" |
 "Semipalmated Sandpiper 2" |
 "Winter Waxwing" |
 "Menemsha Oystercatcher" |
 "Barn Owl Primary" Digital Photo |
 "Little Blue diving at Shark Valley, FL" Digital Photo |
 "Red Phalarope at the Beach" Digital photo |
 "Hopi Eider" Digital photo print 10X17 |
 "And they're off!" Digital photo |
It is great to be able to bring home a souvenir of a special birding moment and, especially, to be able to email those images out to friends and others who were there or who wish they had been, whether or not they are avid birders. Photos like these tend to end up in my blog: http://ottgallerymv.com/lannymcdowellavianart/
I shoot in digital and am presently using a Canon 30D, a Canon 100-400mm IS L-series zoom, usually with a 1.4X teleconverter, always hand-held, usually manually focused.
My bird photos have been published in The New York Times, The Cape Cod Times , The Martha's Vineyard Times and The Vineyard Gazette. They are frequently used in slide presentations and in print media for conservation organizations. I have been published in Birder's World magazine, in Bird Observer and on the covers of two recent books about birds and wildlife on Martha's Vineyard Island.
What first turned me on to taking photos of bird life were two inspiring events: having the New York Times Science Times publish my photograph, taken over the bow of my kayak, of three very out-of-season Razorbills spending the summer of 2001 on Menemsha Pond, Chilmark, on Martha's Vineyard, and the appearance of the now famous, to bird watchers at least, Red-footed Falcon that Vern Laux discovered near the Katama Airport on Martha's Vineyard in August of 2004.
