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If you've been monitoring my gallery, you may have noticed I don't digiscope birds as much as I used to. As viewing birds for enjoyment is superseding taking pictures them (which is often a huge pain and time consuming effort), I won't refuse an opportunity to capture a bird that is just begging to be photographed.
Most of the time now when entering Pheasant Branch Conservancy in search of songbirds, I don't usally bother bringing spotting scope and camera along. This morning was different - it had that certain je ne sais quoi with the light that instinctively seems to set one day apart from another in the photographer's mind. So I brought along the scope and camera and captured this SEDGE WREN in beautiful golden morning light. Speaking of light, here's the EXIF data for the above shot:
CAMERA : E995V1.6
METERING : CENTER
MODE : A
SHUTTER : 1/351sec
APERTURE : F3.4
EXP +/- : -0.7
FOCAL LENGTH : f15.1mm(X1.0)
IMG ADJUST : STANDARD
SENSITIVITY : ISO100
WHITEBAL : AUTO
SHARPNESS : NORMAL
DATE : 2005.09.14 07:57
QUALITY : FULL FINE
SATURATION : +1
FOCUS AREA : TOP
Sedge Wren Picture #2
Sedge Wren Picture #3
Link: All about the Sedge Wren from Cornell Labs
Sedge Wren images © 2005 Michael Allen McDowell