My brother has been getting in to photography a lot lately and found an awesome spot for Osprey in Maine. There's a river and a run of fish going on now, and well, the river's pretty narrow and there's lots of fish and osprey. It's an awesome spot.
A half hour's walk through the woods and then there it is.
Continued...
In a few days I've gone a few times and spent quite a few hours there. There are all show with a 500mm handheld and cropped some...
The spot is setup pretty nicely, by late morning the light is working its way to the side of the river and behind the spot to shoot from. 
While there my brother and I were both initially put off because of some hikers and people fishing there along the river. But after a while, I realized that by this not being an untraveled spot the osprey are actually more accustomed to people being around. 
Nikographer.com / Jon
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Saturday, May 15, 2010
GVP Catch-Up - #24 to #32
From http://natureandwildlifephotography.blogspot.com/2010/05/gvp-catch-up-24-to-32.html
I took a little break from posting my GVP shots on the blog, and this is my chance to catch up.
Here are the first few:
Shooting birds where they are low in the frame, and water or sky fill the background, I think that works quite well for a vertical.
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GVP #26 was one of those that stands out. I've been to Great Falls a ton and a half of times and seeing something special, the light, the subject, trying for something (slow shutter) and having it all come together - I love that.
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I dug the next one up from a few months ago. I did indeed shoot it vertically to start, around sunrise - the heron was on the ice and the light was just *so*....
Finally there's GVP #32 and the Air Show today at Andrews Air Force Base. With some weeks of vertical on the brain I shot more than ever vertical, and this setup was an obvious one (helicopter and troops being extracted via the rope). It was slightly strained to try to shoot the planes vertically - but it did work a number of times. The Heritage flight would have probably work best on the pass I didn't go vertical, and it did work ok on the pass that I did go vertical.... Lol. The Blue Angels went by all stacked up for a couple passes and that worked fairly well vertically.
One of the things that shooting vertically adds is that it removes the lost pixels from just cropping vertically from a horizontal shot. Some things just are vertical. It makes basic sense to match up the pixels and orientation to the subject. 
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