Almost a full 5 years ago from writing this, about 2 months short. I finally have some of my first tastes of the photography I would later dive full into. Shortly after the Lego Minecraft building of the last post. We had a bit of snow up in the North Carolina mountains. And for whatever reason I do remember thinking to fill up the bird feeder. Which thankfully is right in sight of one of the basement windows.
Which leads to the first example of bird photography I ever took. 172 images that mostly are of bird butts as they turned away from me. I’ve hand picked a few now that I took with the Rebel T3i and the unknown Tamron telephoto lens I was borrowing from my father.
1/1600 sec - F5.6 - 210mm - ISO 800
1/400 sec - F5.6 - 210mm - ISO 3200
1/80 sec - F5.6 - 55mm - ISO100
1/400 sec - F7.1 - 210mm - ISO 320
1/2000 sec - F5.6 - 210mm - ISO 800
So here they are. Actually a fairly decent spread of birds to be honest. Likely due to the fact that the snow had just started to fall and free food. Why would you want to pass that up.
It would be years before I really tried again with birds I think. But these officially are the first wildlife photos I ever took. Have to start somewhere, and shooting jpg, through a window, in a full auto mode was a good place. I would have a lot to learn from here.