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<\/a><\/a><\/a>That’s the female talking and the male with the yellow bill.<\/p>\n When I’m photographing over or near the water, I try to get positioned where my subjects, usually birds, will swim through or fly over patches of water that are reflecting\u00a0shoreline color (from\u00a0trees or even manmade structures with colorful paint like the South Padre Island Convention Center) rather than sky.\u00a0 As you can see from the last image above, this pintail flew above just such a stretch of colored water.<\/p>\n When photographing birds in flight, I find that\u00a0their\u00a0most photogenic\u00a0 position will be during a turn with their back\u00a0toward the camera as in the shot above.<\/p>\n This pair of ospreys caught me by surprise\u00a0while I was\u00a0using\u00a0the 500 mm lens.\u00a0 There was no time to put\u00a0it down and grab a second camera with the 100-400 mm lens.\u00a0 Hence, I lost a great opportunity for several good shots with the birds together.\u00a0 From now on, I’ll follow my own advice and keep the second camera with smaller lens slung over my shoulder for a quick\u00a0switch when needed.<\/p>\n Larry<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I left home at 5:45 AM on Wednesday past in route to South Padre Island’s World Birding Center boardwalk and the Laguna Madre waterfront for some early morning bird photography.\u00a0\u00a0The fog was\u00a0lifting as I arrived at sunrise\u00a0and, in a few minutes, it was broken enough to allow shafts of sunlight to penetrate.\u00a0 Dozens of brown … Continue reading After the Fog Burned Off<\/span> <\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>