| About This Shoot | Date: 26 January 2013 | Location: Bosque del Apache NWR, New Mexico | Shoot Type: Wildlife | | Synopsis: Even though I got out and photographed during the morning, the light was crappy as there were too many clouds. There were some off and on sprinkles as well through the bulk of the day. Late in the afternoon, however, there was a pretty heavy shower that moved in not too long after I set up for a shoot at the typical spot north of the Flight Deck. I waited through some fairly heavy showers, but as the sun lowered, it began to peek through and a brilliant rainbow resulted. I captured some awesome images of the brilliant rainbow with the first group of cranes that had settled in to roost. One such image I titled "Cranebow". |
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Mon, 28 Jan 2013 23:35:26 -0600 Bosque del Apache Day 6 - January 26 (Evening Shoot) |
This was probably the most unique shoot of the trip. Most of
the day was filled with poor light due to heavy clouds and scattered
rain showers. Late in the day, there was more sunshine poking
through, but not before one last heavy rain shower moved across
Bosque del Apache just prior to sunset. I shot from the Flight Deck
and set up at a spot I picked out a couple hours prior based on
where the cranes were favoring to land, the approaching flight path,
and wind direction for landing. It was good that there was a south
wind because then the birds would be landing with their fronts in
the good light. A fairly robust convective shower moved in and it
started raining quite heavily. I didnt back any rain gear, so I had
to use some makeshift cover to protect my gear while it was
raining. I knew the rain would not last all that long, but before
the heaviest of the rain hit, I managed to get a few shots in of
some of the first incoming cranes. As the storm was beginning to
end, a dramatic rainbow filled the eastern sky and the light was
improving rapidly. I grabbed my D700 which had my 24-70mm lens
attached to it and I shot away at the amazing rainbow with cranes in
the foreground. After the rainbow waned, I went back to work with
the 600mm lens on the Wimberly (after drying it off after getting
wet from the rain shower), and got some nice in-flights, portraits,
and other various poses in awesome light as the sun hit the water
and cranes for a short time before it dipped below the mountains.
Then, the clouds on the eastern horizon began to break up just
shortly after sunset and the full moon appeared!! I did not expect
this at all, so I quickly went to the car to grab my 80-400mm lens
and put it on the Wimberley to grab some wildlife-in-landscape
scenes with the full moon and its reflection off the water.
Awesome!
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