Backgrounds (and/or Lighting) - Part 2

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While culling obese folders in my Lightroom catalog, I selected a few with backgrounds or lighting I really like. This is part 2, and the end of this thread. I may have posted all of these photos previously, but if so, it was outside the pinhole of my memory.

Black-necked Stilt - St. Marks NWR (FL)
Nikon D300, 500mm f/4 1/500 sec at f/4.5, ISO 800

Red-shafted Northern Flicker - Washington Park, CO
Nikon D300, 300mm f/4 lens with 1.7x TC
1/640 sec at f/7.1, ISO 800

Red-tailed Hawk - somewhere in Texas
Nikon D4, 500mm f/4 lens with 1.4x teleconverter
1/3200 sec at f/11, ISO 2000

American Redstart - MI
Nikon D500, 500mm f/4 lens with 1.4x teleconverter
1600 sec at f/5.6, ISO 4000

Brewster’s Warbler - MI
Nikon D500, 500mm f/4 lens with 1.4x teleconverter
1/1250 sec at f/7.1, ISO 1100

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David Sparks

I retired in 2005 after 40 years of research and teaching at the University of Alabama in Birmingham (24 years), the University of Pennsylvania (8 years) and the Baylor College of Medicine (8 years). Photography is my retirement hobby.

Nature photography, especially bird photography, combines a number of things that I really enjoy: bird-watching, being outdoors, photography, travel, messing about with computers, and learning new skills and concepts.  I now spend much of my time engaged in these activities.

David Sibley in the preface to The Sibley Guide to Birds wrote "Birds are beautiful, in spectacular as well as subtle ways; their colors, shapes, actions, and sounds are among the most aesthetically pleasing in nature."  My goal is to acquire images that capture the beauty and uniqueness of selected species as well as images that highlight the engaging behaviors the birds exhibit.