While looking for a specific image in my large collection of nature images, I ran across a few from a few years ago, that I never published. The Wood Duck drake (male) is such a colorful duck and always fun to photograph. Although they are typically quite skittish, wearing camo clothing in a kayak often offers such wonderful views. In today’s post, these images were all taken during a morning shoot, from my kayak, in the early morning hours at Amarugia Highlands Conservation Area (MO), not far from my rural Missouri home:
And this final image is a bit “fuzzy”. Trying to hold a 500mm lens/2x Teleconverter in a kayak, and with a moving subject in low light, is … well, quite challenging!
Photographic Equipment Used:
- Canon 1D Mark II body
- Canon 500mm IS lens, with 2x Teleconvert3r
- Handheld, with IS “On”
- ISO 800
- Aperture f/8
- Shutter various speeds