Daniel N
Daniel N
Daniel N
I enjoy photography, thunderstorms, listening to the blues, and horror films. You might find me chasing storms across North America, hunting the aurora in the night sky, or on the coast during a wind storm.
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Plenty of scrappy looking showers were zipping through on a cold Northerly air flow yesterday. Not much wind shear or instability to hold these together for long (as usual), but some cold air above helped with a little hail and some...
Today, I managed to get my first Blackcap on camera. He was buried deep in the bush and was hard to even get a clear shot of his face. I didn't even realise he was mid-song until I got home and see the images on a bigger screen. Also,...
Here are five images from five days of roaming around Northumberland. This wasn't a photography specific trip, but if I'm going to Northumberland then the camera is always coming along, and so these are more opportunistic captures than...
The North Westerly flow continues with another day of lethargic hail showers. It was either way too warm in the sunshine or way too cold under the showers, and that triggered more wardrobe changes than your average Swifty event. In...
Back to some of my more regular photography today with some messy hail showers on a brutal North Westerly wind flow. Not a lot of wind shear to hold these together for long (or much energy in general), but they still managed some soft...
The last few outings haven't been a great success for any decent bird images. Maybe I'd been somewhat lucky recently and perhaps a little distracted with some mildly interesting weather coming my way (another post). Anyway, here are some...
Man these things are tricky to photograph and they look so small in the frame. My lens is out at a 420mm equivalent and I'm thinking I need (at least) double that for a good shot of these. The Chiffchaff, I've heard lots recently (they...
These turned out quite nice for some of my first inflight shots. The bird detection on the OM1 is doing a lot of the heavy lifting here, but this is really fun to mess around with. The Robin shot was using the ProCapture feature at ISO...
I was about ready to leave. I'd spent a frustrating couple of hours without being able to capture anything, not even so much as a Robin. I was having one final attempt at a couple of Great Tits when I caught a glimpse of some hind legs...
A few of the better captures from this weekend. Any light for photography was awful, thanks to the persistent mist and fog (permistent? meh.) for the last few days. Nearly every image was horrendously backlit and the wildlife was just as...
Southerly winds are bringing dust from the Sahara over the next few days and a good chance for some nice sunsets/sunrises; with both still at reasonable times of the day (no stupidly early sunrise) it's so much easier to try and...
I finally got you. You were much trickier than the curious Robins of the last few days. Either my reactions are getting quicker with practice, or you were milliseconds more generous with your perching time than usual. This wasn't a JPG...
Another walk through the woods and another Robin photoshoot. I really did try to use just the JPGs straight from camera, but they looked a little under exposed and somewhat noisy under closer inspection. I can do better to fix the under...
I'm starting to experiment with straight out of camera JPG's from my EM1 III. Less time in front of the screen editing images is starting to feel more and more appealing. And if I can get away without a subscription to Adobe's Creative...
I've never attempted any bird or wildlife photography until now (well, there was the squirrel I spotted in December), and I don't know why I didn't attempt it sooner. It seems perfectly aligned with my other favourite subjects, Aurora,...