Photo Interlude: When a Plover Meets a Plover…

October 29, 2009 By John E. Riutta in Born Again Bird Watcher Archive, Uncategorized Tags: interlude, photo, Photography, plover, semipalmated, semipalmatus, shorebird, Swarovski

While sorting some image files on my laptop, I found this one of two Semipalmated Plovers, Charadrius semipalmatus, that I digiscoped during a visit to the barrier islands off Chatham, Massachusetts using the first Swarovski spotting scope (a borrowed one) that I ever carried out into the field. Recalling that, I suddenly realized that I had yet to publish a reminder to Born Again Bird Watcher readers that the deadline for submitting their own digiscoped images to the Swarovski Digiscoper of the Year competition is October 31, 2009. So if you have a digiscoped image of which you are particularly proud, now’s the time to upload it on the contest’s website. With no entry fee and a first prize of fame, glory, and a Swarovski 32mm EL binocular, what have you got to lose?

Equipment:

Swarovski ATS 80 HD spotting scope

Swarovski 20-60x eyepiece

Swarovski DCB adapter

Canon PowerShot SD1100 IS

Settings:

F-stop: f/3.5

Exposure time: 1/320 sec.

ISO speed: ISO-80

Exposure bias: 0 step

John E. Riutta

Founder and publisher of The Well-read Naturalist. Inveterate autodidact. Has repeatedly been found out standing in many fields. Plays well with otters.

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