My Best Photos of 2023
Posted: Jan 01 6:48 am
by GlennBartley
2023 was a great year of bird photography! I feel so lucky to get to travel to incredible places and see these unbelievably beautiful birds.
Here are a few of my favourites from a memorable year of photography that I hope you will enjoy
If you'd like to see my full "Best of 2023" gallery you can find it here -
https://www.glennbartley.com/naturephot ... 02023.html
Red-necked Tanager
Velvet-purple Coronet
Hyacinth Macaw
Adelie Penguin
Blue-tufted Starthroat
Puma
Gentoo Penguin
Red-tailed Comet
Snow Petrel
Toco Toucan
Baltimore Oriole
Vermilion Cardinal
Re: My Best Photos of 2023
Posted: Jan 01 8:35 am
by GMcD
Thanks Glenn, always an inspiration seeing what you post, as well as your Youtubes. Being a humble JPG shooter with budget equipment, I can only hope to use your examples to try to improve the artistic side of bird photography and get more than just snapshots.
Re: My Best Photos of 2023
Posted: Jan 08 9:06 am
by GMcD
I've put together an Album on Flickr of my best photos of 2023. Some things to note - I shoot JPEG, I have an elderly Windows 7 computer and use a free download (Picasa 3) for photo editing. My photo editing is mainly cropping/straightening, some highlite/fill light, sometimes some saturation, and a degree of sharpening. I don't have access to high end photo processing software so there is no "photoshopping" of branches, backgrounds or any other photo manipulation. These photos are pretty well "reality", with the above noted photo editing tweaks.
Camera and lens is the Canon 90D, 32mp crop sensor, with a Tamron 150-600mm G2 lens.
This first set is "birds on sticks".
American Goldfinch08 May26_2023 by
GMcD2008, on Flickr
Yellow Rumped Warbler46 Apr24_2023 by
GMcD2008, on Flickr
Yellow Rumped Warbler12 May03_2023 by
GMcD2008, on Flickr
White Crowned Sparrow15 June16_2023 by
GMcD2008, on Flickr
Tree Swallow03 June01_2023 by
GMcD2008, on Flickr
Song Sparrow04 Oct01_2023 by
GMcD2008, on Flickr
Says Phoebe13 Apr24_2023 by
GMcD2008, on Flickr
Savannah Sparrow05 June06_2023 by
GMcD2008, on Flickr
Savannah Sparrow03 Apr27_2023 by
GMcD2008, on Flickr
Red Winged Blackbird06 Oct06_2023 by
GMcD2008, on Flickr
Pacific Wren10 Nov29_2023 by
GMcD2008, on Flickr
Orange Crowned Warbler08 Apr28_2023 by
GMcD2008, on Flickr
Mountain Bluebird38 Apr16_2023 by
GMcD2008, on Flickr
Lincolns Sparrow11 Sept20_2023 by
GMcD2008, on Flickr
Greater Yellowlegs16 Oct22_2023 by
GMcD2008, on Flickr
GBH Dawn06 Nov01_2023 by
GMcD2008, on Flickr
Dawn Dowitchers03 Oct31_2023 by
GMcD2008, on Flickr
Coopers Hawk10 Nov24_2023 by
GMcD2008, on Flickr
Common Yellowthroat32 Apr27_2023 by
GMcD2008, on Flickr
Common Merganser female04 Nov05_2023 by
GMcD2008, on Flickr
Cedar Waxwing03 Nov0_2023 by
GMcD2008, on Flickr
Bushtit04 Dec31_2023 by
GMcD2008, on Flickr
Annas Hummingbird05 Mar12_2023 by
GMcD2008, on Flickr
American Pipit49 Sept14_2023 by
GMcD2008, on Flickr
Re: My Best Photos of 2023
Posted: Jan 08 9:15 am
by GMcD
Here is a set of my best Raptors of 2023. Same preamble as noted above.
Short Eared Owl27 Mar06_2023 by
GMcD2008, on Flickr
Short Eared Owl19 Mar06_2023 by
GMcD2008, on Flickr
Short Eared Owl10 Dec08_2023 by
GMcD2008, on Flickr
Short Eared Owl05 Dec08_2023 by
GMcD2008, on Flickr
Osprey50 Aug30_2023 by
GMcD2008, on Flickr
Osprey41 Aug30_2023 by
GMcD2008, on Flickr
Northern Harrier84 Dec31_2023 by
GMcD2008, on Flickr
Northern Harrier81 Dec31_2023 by
GMcD2008, on Flickr
Northern Harrier49 Dec31_2023 by
GMcD2008, on Flickr
Northern Harrier45 Nov24_2023 by
GMcD2008, on Flickr
Northern Harrier35 Dec31_2023 by
GMcD2008, on Flickr
Re: My Best Photos of 2023
Posted: Jan 08 9:25 am
by GMcD
Here is a set of my best "birds in flight" shots of 2023. Same preamble as above regarding photo processing and camera kit.
Western Sandpiper49 Sept17_2023 by
GMcD2008, on Flickr
Western Sandpiper44 Sept17_2023 by
GMcD2008, on Flickr
Snow Geese56 Oct28_2023 by
GMcD2008, on Flickr
This one of the Snow Geese above should be a 1,000 piece puzzle!
Snow Geese40 Oct25_2023 by
GMcD2008, on Flickr
Northern Pintail15 Feb10_2023 by
GMcD2008, on Flickr
Long Billed Dowitchers05 Aug16_2023 by
GMcD2008, on Flickr
Green Wing Teal21 Mar29_2023 by
GMcD2008, on Flickr
GBH11 Oct27_2023 by
GMcD2008, on Flickr
GBH04 Aug03_2023 by
GMcD2008, on Flickr
GBH03 June23_2023 by
GMcD2008, on Flickr
Gadwall01 Apr12_2023 by
GMcD2008, on Flickr
Dunlins22 Jan29_2023 by
GMcD2008, on Flickr
Dawn Geese02 Nov21_2023 by
GMcD2008, on Flickr
Cormorant03 June23_2023 by
GMcD2008, on Flickr
Re: My Best Photos of 2023
Posted: Jan 08 9:37 am
by GMcD
And here is the last set - waterfowl, shorebirds, and misc. subjects.
Whimbrel05 Sept08_2023 by
GMcD2008, on Flickr
Western Sandpiper20 Sept17_2023 by
GMcD2008, on Flickr
Western Sandpiper18 Aug24_2023 by
GMcD2008, on Flickr
Surfbird06 Sept17_2023 by
GMcD2008, on Flickr
Semipalmated Sandpiper06 Aug08_2023 by
GMcD2008, on Flickr
Ring Necked Pheasant20 June07_2023 by
GMcD2008, on Flickr
Pied Billed Grebe05 Nov01_2023 by
GMcD2008, on Flickr
Mallard29 Nov23_2023 by
GMcD2008, on Flickr
Lesser Yellowlegs15 Oct08_2023 by
GMcD2008, on Flickr
Lesser Yellowlegs13 Aug10_2023 by
GMcD2008, on Flickr
Least Sandpiper36 Aug08_2023 by
GMcD2008, on Flickr
Killdeer14 Aug14_2023 by
GMcD2008, on Flickr
Killdeer juv46 Aug24_2023 by
GMcD2008, on Flickr
Green Winged Teal15 Feb26_2023 by
GMcD2008, on Flickr
GBH35 Sept30_2023 by
GMcD2008, on Flickr
GBH23 Aug16_2023 by
GMcD2008, on Flickr
Gadwall18 Dec30_2023 by
GMcD2008, on Flickr
Bushtits Bath11 Nov17_2023 by
GMcD2008, on Flickr
Bufflehead16 Dec12_2023 by
GMcD2008, on Flickr
Bairds Sandpiper13 Aug08_2023 by
GMcD2008, on Flickr
American Widgeon14 Dec08_2023 by
GMcD2008, on Flickr