This little fellow was my Christmas present a few months back while shooting in Florida, Fort DeSoto State Park. I remember taking off for the park very early and after a great set of sunrise Images, the shorebirds came out in force.
But I was getting skunked, it was my first foray into their world and no book prepares you for trying to shoot these critters darting around. I loaded up my CF cards with a lot of blurs, half hits and bad backgrounds.
I have a new found appreciation for those ‘birders’ that capture those super compelling wildlife images of such small fragile birds living in environments that we can only tolerate for a while.
One such photographer is Debbie Lewinston, who I met briefly during a NYC shoot with Moose Peterson. After my skunking, I pelted her with email questions for advise, and she graciously filled me in on a few shooting nuances based on her experiences, so I think I’ll be better armed the when I head back to Florida.
However, a few images did managed to get pulled out of the DD and here is my first FL shorebird.
