PHOTOGRAPH INFO

This photo was taken Saturday night at 8:00 p.m. Ms. Tree Swallow was dive-bombing me for five minutes as I tried to take this shot! Obviously I was too close to the nest. I managed a few close-ups as she flew within inches of my head, but due to the wide aperture she was out of focus. I was pretty happy with the focus and framing on this one, though.

Post-processing: Shot with the Canon EOS 5D and the Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L lens at 24mm, ISO 320, f/2.8, shutter 1/1000s. Curves adjustments, color balancing.

Thank you for visiting Durham Township!

--Kathleen

Perfect timing and great evening colours. Very well done!

I have been pestering a nest myself, trying to get a good shot but to no avail - the dive-bombing is too much for me! Great job sticking with her! I think the colors of the grass, fields and sunset really make this one. Terrific.

I've watched swallows on a few occasions and they are such quick and agile birds making them difficult subjects.

She looks like she really means business. I love the angle of flight which you caught her. Beautiful!

Really nice capture, the tones and that bird...great!!

Very, very good colours and great work in capturing the sparrow in this pose. I especially like the colours on the bird house and the stick.

Wow, fantastic shot, wonderful timing. I love it.

wow now thats a shot.

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Fantastic, I must try for the same. Your Photos have given me a lot of ideas. Thank you K.

recently I realized what it takes to make such perfect timing. I was wathing some ducks in the pond, when suddenly one of them took off the water and flew like 2m from me. If I hade my camera on that time, it would be a great shot... well, if I had wheels, I would be a wagon :-)

Nice catch. I love swallows - it is something about the shape of the wings and tail feathers. Great light here as well.

Beautiful, Kathleen. Great colors and composition.

Beautiful shot: lighting, framing, composition, action freeze, etc. Really nice.

G R E A T !!!
makes me want to get that lens 24-70... and the 2.8 helps to get that action but at so so pretty sunset.

I've never been a situation where I've been dive bombed by a Momma bird, however, I would assume it's not very pleasant.

Great job sticking through because this shot is just perfect.

Lovely image!

It was a long day. Intensive field work, coping with the constant demands for domestic materials and the never ending food cycle. The kids are safely tucked in with their dad beside them. I caught the last flight home...there before dark..it was a good day.

An awesome shot. So many excellent compositional elements like the way the home balances with the trees on the horizon. The poise of the swallow, silhouetted against the warmly lite cloud as one vertical wing pierces the cool blue. The anchor-weight of shadowed foreground rounds out a wonderful evening.

Even the unique timing is so impressive. I recently went to a rocket club meet and tried to get a "lift off" shot. Digital camera--not even funny. I got a great picture of three guys looking up, a faint vertical smoke trail in center frame tells the whole story of digital timing....and makes this swallow image all the more remarkable.

Does this woman have timing or what?

Thanks, (over 6K, but who's counting?) Kathleen.

Nice lighting and perfect composition!

As usual, a really nice capture. Your work is so enjoyable...as a fellow photographer, I am consistently impressed by your awareness of light, and beautiful post processing techniques. Thanks for sharing so many beautiful images.

Nice catch! I love the colors as well.

Your work never ceases to amaze me.

What a great shot. Bird in flight are so difficult to shoot. Take a look at this http://www.tobiasphoto.com/index.php?where=102 - He almost killed me :-) But I stood up for the art.

Beautiful lighting. Great timing too - those swallows swoop fast!

You have cut down the wild fields where I chased my daily meals; you have taken away the forest where I used to sleep at night. You have baled the grasses and harvested the trees and left me this little house made from the remains.

I am here as your exterminator, as your source of entertainment. I eat the bad bugs and you get to watch me fly in this big green zoo.

Does it ease your conscience?

Simple beauty.

So, Willow, if a person were sitting on your couch in your living room and went to put their feet up on your coffee table, would the action be prohibited by a stack of LP's containing the complete works of Joan Baez? .........I was just thinking.....

What can i say more? ok...! I''' say it once more!
Y O U R W O R K I S F A B U L O U S !!!!

Beautyful capture ! I like this lighting and colors...