A few pictures from Point Lobos, CA

[jm10]

1 - Cormorant at Point Lobos


2 - everyone builds a nest...


3 - Nice colors at the Allan Memorial Grove rocks - Point Lobos


4 - Brandt's Cormorants nesting at the Bird Island in Point Lobos. These birds have blue throat pouches.


5 - building a nest


6 - go away!


7 - Squirrel at the Piney Woods Trail in Point Lobos


8 - Turkey vulture at Soberanes Point. Not the most glamorous bird (his or her parents would disagree) but makes a good photo object...


9 - the Bird Island in the background (it is separated by a narrow channel. Shows multiple bird species but mostly cormorants. This one was taken with a Z7ii

Thanks for looking; as always your comments are welcome.

jacob

 

[Feugi]

Really well done. I like these environmental shots. I find these photos harder to execute than portrait shots of birds.

 

[Morris0]

A delight to view Jacob

Morris

 

[Jerry-astro]

Really lovely pics. Brings back some fond memories as I grew up not far from there in Salinas.

 

[jm10]

Really well done. I like these environmental shots. I find these photos harder to execute than portrait shots of birds.

Thanks Feugi! To me everything that moves fast is hard

 

[jm10]

A delight to view Jacob

Morris

Thanks Morris! This is my largest collection of bird pictures (and most of them are barely moving...)

 

[jm10]

Really lovely pics. Brings back some fond memories as I grew up not far from there in Salinas.

Thanks Jerry! I guess it is a little more dry in Salinas compared to where you are now

 

[Jerry-astro]

Really lovely pics. Brings back some fond memories as I grew up not far from there in Salinas.

Thanks Jerry! I guess it is a little more dry in Salinas compared to where you are now

Yup. But that was a lot of years ago, and I’ve managed to get used to the wetter weather where we’re living these days. I definitely do miss the proximity to Monterey and other coastal areas that were not all that far from where we lived.

 

[dgbarar]

Nice job on these. Particularly the last one which to me captured the essence of Point Lobos. I loved shooting (at the time always 4x5) at Point Lobos when I lived in California. This was one of Edward Weston's favorite places to photograph.

To the fairest,

Eris

 

[DJ STU-C]

Great set of images, with the humble X-T2 and XF70-300 no less.

 

[jm10]

Nice job on these. Particularly the last one which to me captured the essence of Point Lobos. I loved shooting (at the time always 4x5) at Point Lobos when I lived in California. This was one of Edward Weston's favorite places to photograph.

To the fairest,

Eris

Thanks for your nice comments Eris!

I like this shot also. It is a great place for photography; should go there more often...

jacob

 

[jm10]

Great set of images, with the humble X-T2 and XF70-300 no less.

Thank you STU-C! The 70-300 has been quite useful lately both at Point Lobos and Caddo Lake. I am pretty happy with it.

jacob