Weekend weather didn’t look very promising. However on Sunday a beautiful sunrise and later for about 3 hours sunshine. I just settled in the morning and was able to take one shot with beautiful colors of the sunrise in the background. Later the day a troop of photographers from outside came to the place. Never seen […]
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Author: Ralf Karpa
Short-eared Owls – Ninth round
It is unbelievable how close one can get to the one owl. The other two won’t allow that. I went shortly before sunset to the site and it was amazing. Nice light although the meadow was already in the shade. Using the D4 with FX sensor and the Sigma 150-600 S, it was sometimes too […]
Short-eared Owls – Animated
I prepared 2 animated GIF from two shooting sequences. Both were done with the D4 and Sigma 150-600 S. Click on image to open in Lightbox and then on the link bottom left to start animation in a new browser tab.
Short-eared Owls – Eighth round
Early morning hours this time. I am there at about 8 am, still a bit dark but sunrise is promising some nice light. One photographer is already there 🙂 This time I am using my D800 with Nikkor 200-400 and Sigma 150-600 S partially on tripod. When the light is good for some 1600 ISO […]
Short-eared Owls – Seventh round
Another 90 minutes at the owl’s place. Although a normal workday there are about 20 photographers there some of them travelled more than 300 kilometers to get here. The weather is fantastic and the owls are in good mood. Sometimes one get the impression that they really pose for the people. I did around 800 […]
Short-eared Owls – Sixth round
Short break during day to rush over to the owl’s place. Staying there for 25 minutes using my D4 and the 200-400@f4 got me around 550 pictures on the chip. It was insane! The owls were so close coming by or sitting in the green, amazing.
Short-eared Owls – Fifth round
Two nice fellows from a photo community visited Cuxhaven to take some shots of the Short-eared owls. Lucky they were, very nice weather and towards the end a lot of action from 2 birds. The weather has turned from cold snow to slightly above 0°C, so the snow was already nearly gone. OK, you cannot […]
Short-eared Owls – Fourth round
Quick visit over midday. Some activity from the owls shortly after I arrived. However, it was very cold and foggy, so I only stayed there for about an hour. All shots today were done with the D4 and Sigma 150-600 S.
Planning Italy Trip
We will go to Italy in 2016. The whole tour is planned to be done by car. Planned route so far: Route is from hometown to Como (as an interim stop) Cinque Terre (Levanto) Tuscany (Artimino) Rome (with a single day trip to Pompeii) Venezia (Trevisio stay for a single day in Venice) and then back.
Short-eared Owls – Third round
Yesterday’s weather was promised to be brillant, and it turned out to be. Photographers from far came to the place where the owls are. Some did more than 400 kilometers to get here. The scenery was quite bizarre. For some time the owls – people say it seem to be six birds – were active […]