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Chateau L’Sparrow Originally uploaded by idarknight When it rains it pours and for me, it’s been noticing the incredible variety of Sparrows that are in my neighborhood (I really have to get my feeder up). This is from a set I shot a few weeks ago now, but it marked the first time that I…

Baby III Originally uploaded by idarknight Last weekend, I was hearing lots of chipping in the yard and much to my surprise, this little ball of feathers was tucked up in the grass beside my fence. I thought he had fallen out of a nest and couldn’t fly. That thought didn’t last as s/he quickly…

Robin Originally uploaded by idarknight With the rain last night and the Robins running/flying around everywhere, this seemed to be a fitting picture. I like how I managed to get a nicely soft foreground and background with just the bird in the DOF. Ideally if I could have noticed it somehow during composition, I would…

Feeling Blue Originally uploaded by idarknight This kinda matches the mood at the end of the week. Not only did someone that everybody “knew” pass away this week, on the same day we lost someone in our family as well. Interestingly enough, both likely interacted with the same number of people and while one made…

BIF Originally uploaded by idarknight One of the things that I’ve learned in the little bit of wildlife photography that I’ve done is that you can only deal with one rapidly changing element at any given time – at least when you are starting out like me. That means, you either set your camera to…