Recent content by whyone

Thank you Mike. All taken on Marco Island (mainly Tigertail lagoon and beach).

Good fun, but to my eye the subject would benefit from more space all-around and straightening (looks to be 'leaning' to the right of the frame?)

Thank you kindly Bill :)

Reddish Egret doing its crazy dance! Osprey with Silver Sea Trout (I think...but maybe a Ladyfish?!) Leaving nest on boat navigation marker post

Taken last week on the SW Gulf coast. C&C most welcome. American White Ibis Young Burrowing Owls enjoying the late afternoon sun Willet

Yep, thank you @sk66, you confirm my doubts about the he images....and the difficulty of taking a good image in these situations.

Hi John....we visited Costa Rica a few weeks ago and largely self drove / guided. - it's a pretty simple country to navigate so long as you have a good (Toyota!) 4x4. A few images here. Happy to provide locations if you are interested...

On an early morning walk recently I came across groups of Common Terns and Black Skimmers gathering on the shoreline of a beach in SW Florida. I positioned sat with the sun to my back and periodically the birds would take flight. I'm sure there is an effective way to photograph birds in this...

Young Burrowing owls enjoying the evening sun

Thank you. The majority taken with my R7.

About 18 months ago I was given an R7 as a retirement present. I have used my 5Div and 6Dii bodies for many years and have a range of L lenses. The lenses work perfectly on the R7 and I am now just waiting for Canon to release the R5ii so I can go fully mirrorless. R7 / 100-400 Lii:

Common throughout the tropics, these are still spiders which make me stop and take pictures! Golden web, unique to this species, shows quite nicely on this shot

Sun setting in dramatic fashion behind our house

We rented a house high on a promontory overlooking the Pacific in Costa Rica. There was a fruiting shrub in the garden which was popular with Scarlet Macaw's who proved to be extremely noisy, but very entertaining neighbours. Coming in to land: A couple more for luck:

All things are relative, but yes, plenty of power by most measures. I think the cars typically had ~500bhp in the initial year of Can-Am, but inevitably with no rules on engine specification, there was a pretty spectacular 'arms race' as the years passed - cubic capacity increased and forced...