TOM DYRING WILDPHOTO / NN

onsdag 18. mai 2016

APRIL LOVE .. AND OSPREY FLIGHTS (FISKEØRN)

D4s, 600 4,0, F74,0, 1/2000, ISO 800

All pictures of ospreys are shot in Mid Finland April 25th to 28th, 2016.
I am proud !! Hope you like `em !!

Thanks to Eero Kemilä & Markus Varesvuo.

D4s, 600 4,0, f/4,0, 1/2000, ISO 800

April love !
D4s, 600 ,0, f/4,0,, 1/2000, ISO 1000

D4s, 600 4,0, f/4,0, 1/2000, ISO 1000

D4s, 600 4,0, f/4,0, 1/200, ISO 2500

D4s, 600 4,0, f/4,0, 1/2000, ISO 1800

D4s, 600 4,0, f/5,0, 1/2000, ISO 2500

D4s, 600 4,0, f/4,0, 1/2000, ISO 1100

D4s, 600 4,0, f/4,0, 1/2000, ISO 800

D4s, 600 4,0, f/5,6, 1/2000, ISO 1250

D4s, 600 4,0, f/4,0, 1/2000, ISO 1000

Male osprey on the favorite perch.

The snow pulled back just a few days ahead of this situation and the color on the withered heather on the ground offers special challenges with color editing …. to avoid a touch of magenta

D4s, 600 4,0, f/6,3, 1/400, ISO 1250

Double ospreys I
D4, 600 4,0, F74,0, 1/2000, ISO 1100

Double ospreys II
D4s, 600 4,0, f/4,0, 1/2000, ISO 720

Double ospreys III
D4s, 600 4,0, f/4,0, 1/2000, ISO 800

D4s, 600 4,0 + 2,0 converter = 1200 mm, f/9,0, 1/400, ISO 2000

D4s, 600 4,0 + 2,0 converter = 1200 mm, f/9,0, 1/400, ISO 2200

søndag 15. mai 2016

3 ADDER MALES IN COMBAT / HUGGORM

My award winning shot from 2014 was up to May this year the only time I have been able to shoot fighting adder males in the mating season. Compostion-wise, light-wise and color-wise is hard to do it better than this 2014 shot, but my experience from My 5th this year still offered a very special situation.

It was May 5th this spring. I was slowly & carefully checking around my local "adder field" hoping to find adders in a mating related situation, and spotted a grey male down in the tall, dry grass. I sat down quietly and waited, and after a while I saw the brown female too (very hard to spot in the brown grass). He was trying to seduce the old lady by his characteristic staccato movements over her body. Sitting completely still I then spotted another male, and another and another and another, …. altogether 5 males in the situation and hoped that at least one of them will challenge the casanova with the female…. and patiently waiting is the key to photographic success with these animals : Finally one of the males find the romantic couple and a fight between the rivals starts immediately. This is not a mean battle with bites and dirty tricks, it`s a gentleman's wrestling match where the main issue is to press the rival to the ground from their common entwined, upright positions. It`s hard to shoot because this is happening very quickly in the tall, dry grass and the focusing business is "complicated". The light is also hard on the light surfaces of the dry vegetation.

Then suddenly a third male is entering the combat and for couple of magic minutes I have :

3 males in one fight !!

Never saw this before

All pics are shot with D4s, 200-400 4,0 at 400, f/6,3, 1/1250, ISO 280-640

Deep in the dry grass a male adder (grey) is busy trying to seduce a female (brown)

A second male in entering the stage and the rivaling males starts fighting

Suddenly a third male is joining the combat

Cheers !

onsdag 23. mars 2016

HUNGARIAN WHITETAILED EAGLES / HAVØRN

Adult white-tailed eagle on dead fish

D4s, 600 4,0, f/ 4,0, 1/400, ISO 6400

My opinion : Norway offers the best white-tailed eagle photography in the world ! … but still (and of course) : Other places in Europe offers other situations with different angles & different situations, so my main obsession with my a week in the hide in the Hungarian wetlands was to shoot the eagles in a way that`s hard to do in Norway : Very "close up", with a low angle over open water and with a long lens to try to get a "cropped & compressed" vision" of the proud eagle`s most iconic characters :

Sharp eyes, ripping beak & powerful claws.

All pictures are shot in late January / early February 2016 at Lake Csaj, Hungary

Semiadult eagle

D4s, 600 4,0, F74,0, 1/250, ISO 1250

Juvenile eagle

D4s, 600 4,0, f/4,0, 1/320, ISO 2800

D4s, 600 4,0, f/4,0, 1/400, ISO 3200

D4s, 600 4,0, f/4,0, 1/320, ISO 2500

A ringed juvenile, obviously local with he first visible letters BUDA …

D4, 600 4,0, f/4,5, 1/250, ISO 1250

D4s, 200-400 4,0, f/4,0, 1/200, ISO 1250

D4s, 200-400 4,0, f/4,0, 1/200, ISO 1000

D4s, 200-400 4,0, f/4,0, 1/200, ISO 1100

D4s, 600 4,0, f/4,5, 1/250, ISO 640

D4s, 600 4,0, f/4,0, 1/200, ISO 1400

D4s, 600 4,0, f/4,5, 1/250, ISO 800

D4s, 600 4,0, f/4,0, 1/400, ISO 4000

D4s, 600 4,0, f/5,0, 1/400, ISO 1100

D4s, 70-200 2,8, f/2,8, 1/2000, ISO 450

D4s, 70-200 2,8, F/3,5, 1/2000, ISO 2000

D4s, 70-200 2,8, f/3,5, 1/2000, ISO 900

tirsdag 23. februar 2016

FIGHTING HERONS

Grey herons fighting on a cold, frosty night.

Beside the splashing you can also see the warm breath from the birds.

D4s, 70-200 2,8, f/2,8, 1/500, ISO 6400.

Mennesker og hegrer er egentlig ikke så ulike. Vi er begge tynne i beina ( i alle fall noen av oss !),- og begge arter krangler en god del. Mennesker krangler om materielle ting, om posisjoner og prestisje, de krangler med den jævla naboen om Thujahekker og parkeringsplasser … og både med og om ektefeller … og de liker ikke individer som ser annerledes ut. Hegrer har det mye på samme måten, de krangler om materielle verdier (mat !), posisjoner og prestisje, de krangler med den jævla naboen om sitteplasser og reirplasser…. og både med og om ektefeller … og de liker ikke individer som ser annerledes ut.

Mennesker har ulike krangleteknikker. De bruker sjikane, baksnakk, utfrysing, motarbeidelser og utspekulerte hersketeknikker. Der er hegrer mye enklere: de bruker et tydelig kroppsspråk, de skjeller hverandre høylydt ut uten innskutte bisetninger og de sloss noen ganger på tørre nevene (ha ha : "på tørre nevene" !!!). Særlig når vinterisen legger seg på grunnene og mattilgangen skrumper, da blir hegrer veldig gretne, …. og slosskampene kan være overraskende brutale og nådeløse !

English : Pictures of fighting herons are shot by Lake Csaj, Hungary, in early February this year. This compilation is only "fighting herons" and I limited the number to 20 pics. Believe me, I could have chosen another 20 ! Hope you like `em.

Thanks to Koko, Csaba & Bence !