changing light

Immature Swainson’s Hawk In Changing Light

By Mia McPherson|September 9th, 2019|Categories: Beaverhead County, Birds, Centennial Valley, Montana, Swainson's Hawks|Tags: Buteo swainsoni, Buteos, changing light, close up, eye on the sky, flight, gravel road, hatch year bird, hawks, Hawks of Montana, immature, ISO, lift off, lifting off, light morph, low light, pose, raptors, Swainson's Hawk, variable|

This photo session with an immature Swainson's Hawk reinforced how as a bird photographer I need to not only be keenly aware of changing light it also showed how I may need to quickly change my settings to get the photos I want.

Photographing Pelicans, Herons, Egrets and Geese in Flight in Rapidly Changing Light

By Mia McPherson|August 8th, 2016|Categories: American White Pelicans, Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Box Elder County, Canada Geese, Great Blue Herons, Snowy Egrets, Utah|Tags: American White Pelican, Ardea herodias, Branta canadensis, Canada Geese, changing light, clouds, egret, egrets, Egretta thula, flight, flying, geese, goose, Great Blue Heron, heron, herons, Pelecanus erythrorhynchos, pelican, pelicans, photograph, photographing, Promontory Mountains, shadows, Snowy Egret|

I had a great deal of fun photographing the pelicans, herons, egrets and geese in flight in the rapidly changing light yesterday morning at Bear River MBR.