Alan WF

It’s the start of breeding season, and this presumably male specimen is showing iridescent breeding plumage and also fluffing up its feathers to impress a potential mate. The iridescence needs the ...

Starlings don’t range down to central Mexico, so I was happy to find this beautiful specimen on a recent trip to Baja California. Regards, Alan Sony a6000 with Metabones EF-E Smart Adapter (Mk IV), ...

Starlings don’t range down to central Mexico, but I found this beautiful specimen on a recent visit to Baja California. Regards, Alan Sony a6000 with Metabones EF-E Smart Adapter (Mk IV), Kenko ...

Your portrait seems excellent to me. I especially like the pose and the way the shapes in the background complement the subject. Regards, Alan

I like the first one especially. it seems that there is a path leading me into the strange and beautiful world you have created. Regards, Alan

Thanks. I do sometimes fix up the backgrounds in my images, but here it is a result of good luck. Literally, the post-processing on this image was auto-level adjustment and a slight crop. Regards, Alan

An immature Black-crowned Night-Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax) seen in Ensenada harbor. Sometimes, wildlife photography is 90% luck, having a bird stand close to you in decent light, and 10% ...

An immature Black-crowned Night-Heron ( Nycticorax nycticorax ) seen in Ensenada harbor. Sometimes, wildlife photography is 90% luck, having a bird stand close to you in decent light, and 10% ...

A green heron waiting patiently on a trajinera in Xochimilco. Regards, Alan Sony a6000 with Metabones EF-E Smart Adapter (Mk IV), Kenko TELEPLUS HD 1.4x DGX, and Canon EF-S 55-250 mm f/4-5.6 IS STM ...

A green heron waiting patiently on a trajinera in Xochimilco. Regards, Alan Sony a6000 with Metabones EF-E Smart Adapter (Mk IV), Kenko TELEPLUS HD 1.4x DGX, and Canon EF-S 55-250 mm f/4-5.6 IS STM ...

Post no new photos, please. The May 2022 thread has just started.

An invitation to dust off your precious (or not so precious) glass and head out to make some photographs: the real reason for the existence of all our lenses. Here are the guidelines: (1) Images with a ...

I love the colors in the photograph of the bulb. I might have cropped out the base to the lower left, to remove some of the context and emphasize the abstract, but that would be a different image. ...

All beautiful, but I think the chaos on the fourth one appeals most to my eye. Regards, Alan

Nice textures, and the branch coming in from the upper right focuses the composition. Regards, Alan

All very beautiful in their own way. I'm intrigued by the bokeh. In the third and fourth, it is understated, but has enough texture to be interesting, but in the first there seems to be some swirl ...

Beautiful subject, but my eye is distracted by the bokeh in the upper left. This might be one where cropping out the bubbles, painful as that may be, might work. Regards, Alan