Spending hours at The Venice Rookery on my new project, bird photography, I get the chance just to watch and observe different behaviours. One that started to get my attention was the different way some of the nesting birds fed their young. A Great Blue Heron with one chick arrives on the tops of the […]
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Apr 26, 2013 | Categories:Birds, Color Images, Wading Birds, Wildlife | Tags: (Ardea herodias), adult birds feeding their young, Anhinga, Anhinga anhinga, birds, canvas gallery wrap for sale, colour photographic image, fine art print for sale, FL, Florida, Great Blue Heron, Gulf Coast, Lexar Professional 32GB 600X Digital Film, nature, Nikkor 600mm f/4 VRII, Nikkor TC-17e II, Nikon D4, Photography, Richard King Photography, RRS gimbal head, RRS tripod, The Venice Rookery, USA, Venice, wading birds, Wildlife, www.richardkingphoto.com, www.warplaneimages.com | Leave A Comment »
Recently, was it really only yesterday, I had my first encounter with a Pileated Woodpecker and that was fantastic. Today I was heading for The Celery Fields near Saratoga (well in the last ten days I had been to two different Lettuce Lakes – perhaps there is a salad theme here?) having had the best […]
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Apr 11, 2013 | Categories:Birds, Color Images, Owls, Raptors, Wildlife | Tags: available for licensed use, Barred Owl; Strix varia; owlets; fledgelings; Pinecraft Park, canvas gallery wrap for sale, colour photographic image, Dryocopus pileatus, feeding time, fine art print for sale, FL, Florida, Lexar Professional 32GB 600X Digital Film, nest in tree; young Pileated Woodpeckers, Nikkor 600mm f/4 VRII, Nikkor TC-14e II, Nikkor TC-17e II, Nikon, Nikon D4, Photography, Pileated Woodpecker, Richard King Photography, RRS gimbal head, RRS tripod, Sarasota, USA, www.richardkingphoto.com, www.warplaneimages.com | Leave A Comment »
Visiting The Rookery at Venice again there is this Great Egret nest on the edge of the “island” in full view. For the first time I saw Great Egret chicks – how startlingly strange they look with their green skin an white “punk” plumage around their head and necks. And those big eyes, which when […]
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Apr 09, 2013 | Categories:Birds, Color Images, Wading Birds, Wildlife | Tags: (Ardea alba), Adult Great Egret on nest with two chicks, birds, canvas gallery wrap for sale, colour photographic image, fine art print for sale, FL, Florida, Great Egret, Lexar Professional 32GB 600X Digital Film, nature photography, Nikkor 600mm f/4 VRII, Nikon, Nikon D4, photograph, Photography, Richard King Photography, RRS gimbal head, RRS tripod, The Venice Rookery, USA, wading birds, Wildlife, www.richardkingphoto.com, www.warplaneimages.com | Leave A Comment »
Today I visited Honeymoon Island State Park (by myself!!) for the first time. Not knowing what to expect I went directly to the Nature Centre and got some excellent advice on where to go. So I headed straight for the 3.5 mile nature walk. Parked, set up “bigger” with a 2x on my D4 and […]
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Mar 30, 2013 | Categories:Birds, Color Images, Raptors, Wildlife | Tags: Audibon, Bald Eagle, Bald Eagle chicks, bird of prey, canvas gallery wraps for sale, color photographic image, Falco columbarius, fine art prints for sale, FL, Florida, Gulf Coast; Gulf of Mexico; Nature; Wildlife; birds; raptors; Merlin, Haliaeetus leucocephalus, Honeymoon Island State Park, National Bird of the United States of America, nests, Nikkor 600mm f/4 VRII, Nikkor TC-20e III, Nikon D4, Osprey, Pandion haliaetus, photograph, Photography, Richard King Photogrpahy, USA, www.richardkingphoto.com, www.warplaneimages.com | Leave A Comment »
The Black Diamond Jet Team are a rare commodity in our skies inasmuch as they are civilian owned. During the 2012 season they are fully sponsored by United Bank Card, Inc. Thank you United Bank Card, Inc. The Arctic Camouflage is a very bright scheme albeit in black, white and grey, but to me as […]
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Apr 11, 2012 | Categories:Aviation Photography, Black and White Images, Warbirds | Tags: Arctic Camouflage, black and white, black and white print, Black Diamond Jet Team, clouds, D3X, Fine Art Prints, FL, Florida, Florida International Air Show, formation flying, L-39 Albatros, Lexar Professional 32GB 600X Digital Film, Mig-17, military aircraft, monochrome, Nikkor 200-400mm f/4 VRII, Nikon, photograph, Photography, Punta Gorda, Richard King, Richard King Photography, Russian, United Bank Card Inc., USA, war plane, Warbird | 2 Comments »
Nikkor 200-400mm f/4 G VRII AF-S Having made the decision to move away from shooting film in my Hasselblad “V” series cameras I spent over a year agonizing “do I go Hasselblad H4D or Nikon D3X?”. A key reason for choosing the Nikon path was that I could (eventually) get long lenses and return to Wildlife […]
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Apr 03, 2012 | Categories:Aviation Photography, Birds, Color Images, Gear, Warbirds, Wildlife | Tags: (Ardea alba), (Ardea herodias), Arctic Camouflage, Beechcraft, Black Diamonds, Blue Angels, Blue Sky, Boeing, clouds, color, Common Egret, D3X, dawn, F-4U Corsair, F/A-18 Hornet, F8F Bearcat, fine art print, FL, Florida, Florida International Air Show, formation, Golden Hour, Great Blue Heron, Great Egret, Great White Egret, Grumman, Korean War, L-39 Albatros, Lexar Professional 32GB 600X Digital Film, mating plumage, Mig-17, military aircraft, Nikkor 200-400mm f/4 VRII, Nikon, photograph, Photography, Punta Gorda, Richard King Photography, Russian, spring, sunrise, The Rookery, Trainer, Twin Beech 18, U.S. Navy, United States, USA, Venice, Vought, war plane, Warbird, WWII | 1 Comment »
Up in the air, bouncing around in the back of a Short Brothers’ Skyvan with the back door open, on a Moose Peterson workshop, and I think this guy wants to come aboard and join us! The air behind the Skyvan is very rough as it is not an aerodynamically shaped design – roughly square […]
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Mar 22, 2012 | Categories:Aviation Photography, Color Images, The American SouthWest, Warbirds | Tags: Arizona, AZ, CAF, color, Commemorative Air Force, Cripes A' Mighty, D3X, Falcon Field, fighter plane, Fine Art Prints, Lexar Professional 32GB 600X Digital Film, military aircraft, Nikkor 70-200 f/2.8G ED VRII, Nikon, P-51, P-51 Mustang, Photography, pilot, Richard King, TC, USA, war plane, Warbird, World War II, WWII | 3 Comments »
I arrived at Falcon Field in Mesa a day before my photography workshop began (another story to follow). To get a feel for the location I headed into the Arizona Wing of the Commemorative Air Force (CAF) to look around and get some “static” images of their aircraft. I was surprised to see this Ural […]
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Mar 18, 2012 | Categories:Aviation Photography, Color Images, Warbirds | Tags: 24.0-70.0 mm f/2.8, American SouthWest, Arizona, Aviation, AZ, CAF, Commemorative Air Force, D3X, Falcon Field, Mesa, military aircraft, Museum, photograph, Photography, Russian, Ural Sidecar Motorcycle, USA, Warbird, Yak 52 | 3 Comments »