Ring-necked Pheasant hen – Nikon D300, f6.3, 1/1600, ISO 500, +1.0 EV, Nikkor 200-400mm VR with 1.4x TC at 400mm, not baited
Just a simple high key image of a hen Ring-necked Pheasant this morning that was taken in January at Farmington Bay WMA in Davis County, Utah. The heavy layer of snow had made it difficult for the pheasants to forage and due to that they were out in the open more than normal.
Because of the amount of snow we have had here this winter in the Salt Lake Valley I have been able to take lots of high key images of birds and animals but I am looking forward to seeing some green now!
Life is good.
Mia
Click here to see more of my Ring-necked Pheasant photos plus facts and information about this species.
Stunning detail as always and I’m ready to see more SNOW! Tired of the brown….sigh.
Sherry, we sure are getting our share of snow here in Utah, I wish I could send you some. Thanks for commenting.
Mia: I hope all goes well with these “game” birds!
Thank You Maria
you have done a beautifull bird colelction on snow, it could seems easy to do when we see your pictures, but it s not, almost when we practice it and we know all the hours spent without results.
Thanks mia ☺
Thank you much for your very kind comment Eric. Photographing in snow does present challenges.
Mia, I love your images on snow — absolutely love them. And I have a follow-up, pragmatic, probably dumb question about high key. I always associated “high key” with “deliberately over-exposed” and I’m thinking that’s a mischaracterization. What, exactly, constitutes HK in an image?
Ingrid, high key also includes images with white or very bright backgrounds along with images that are deliberately over exposed. In the winter here with all our snow I can get a wide variety of high key images.
I’ll be sharing more images on snow but I also hope to be sharing some soon with spring green showing up too!
Dear Mia, I just love the images you send that so clearly define the feathering of these gorgeous birds. She’s lovely.
I’m afraid you’ll be seeing more mud than green for awhile! Once all this snow melts we’ll be in it up to our necks for awhile. Enjoy, Merrill
Merrill, there will be mud for a bit when this snow melts, that is for sure! Thanks much for your comment on this bird.
I like your high-key images. The bird stands out nicely on the snow.
Thank you Julie!
A beautiful Pheasant image Mia.
Thank you very much Bob.
Keep shooting those high key shots while you have to! We Floridians talk a good talk of having nice, sunny, warm weather all winter, but secretly we wish we could see snow. Dang, I just let the secret out.
You might not have the white snow we have here in Utah Scott, but you have the sugar sand of the beaches that shines as bright!
Green would be lovely. Birding has been rubbish this week! Tried to get out on Thursday but it was too windy; today is rainy. Tomorrow is work, so that may be a wrap for February birding. But then, it’ll be March birding: a whole new ball game!
Green sure would be lovely Kathleen! Finding birds here the past few weeks has also been a challenge but today I saw plenty of them up north. March brings migration, I can’t wait!