It was a nice sunny spring day, hopefully one of many to come. Spring finds me wanting to spend time outdoors more than any other season. Even though the grass height is telling me that mowing must soon start, I like the longer days and milder temperatures. Just being able to work with the windows open is a big deal. The sun this time of year also has a more direct hit on my studio space in the morning, which I particularly like.
Certain birds really like morning sun as well. Sunning themselves to dry out wet feathers or just to warm up their bodies, they stretch out their wings and face the sun directly. These situations make for great opportunities to create silhouette images, in this case of a cormorant. There are quite a number of these big birds at a lake I frequent here in Bucks County. Working with the symmetry that water reflections allow, I made this image on a spring morning very much like today. My usual bird-photography kit was used, a Canon 1D Mark II camera with Canon EF500mm f4.0 L IS lens and a Canon TC1.4 teleconverter. It’s kind of a peaceful image.
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