I could probably save myself a lot of time and effort if I didn’t do everything by the seat of my pants. I set the new camera up to take bursts of photos, not remembering that this camera will take LOTS of pictures per second. When you add that to the fact that I had set it up for silent shutter, then you might have a clue how I managed to get 1077 photos in probably a half hour down at the neighborhood pond. So I had many, many virtually identical pictures to look at. Not the greatest pictures either. Learning the hard way, but learning.
This tricolor heron was waiting for me when I got to the pond. He flew off and I thought I’d found him but it turned out to be the little blue heron in the feature photo.The ducks were flapping their wings and I held the shutter button down in my excitement so I finally had to just choose one and stop trying to find the ‘best’ one.Okay, I worked on two before I cried uncle.Found this teeny-tiny butterfly in the grass. I got excited because when he flew off the tracking feature of the camera followed him.See, it kept focus on the butterfly. These photos are zoomed too much I know, but I was excited to see the tracking feature in action.Of course I concentrated on dragonflies for a bit. A couple of hundred photos worth.I was happy that it was one of the orange ones that stopped for a bit, that was nice.I was sitting on one of the swings, in the shade, and focusing on this little bird on the fence, waiting for him to turn around, or fly. I had no idea that he was enjoying his lunch. I waited and waited, taking photos all the while.
Taking advantage of a break in the raindrops, and then they started falling again.
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