Alpha 7 V or Alpha 1 II - Bird Photography & Videography with Mark Smith
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Alpha 7 V or Alpha 1 II - Bird Photography & Videography with Mark Smith
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Bird Photography & Videography With Mark Smith | What's In My Bag
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Bird Photography & Videography With Mark Smith | What's In My Bag
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Insane Bald Eagle Feeding Frenzy - Bird In Flight Photography with Sony A1 200-600 & 600f4
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Insane Bald Eagle Feeding Frenzy - Bird In Flight Photography with Sony A1 200-600 & 600f4
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Now this is how you make an entrance! Seeing the full wingspan of an eagle never really gets old does it? Slowing things down and filming them in slow motion just makes the entire experience even better. From the graceful midair bank, to the delicate landing on a bed of razor sharp oysters. It’s easy to see why these birds rule the skies. | Mark Smith Photography
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Now this is how you make an entrance! Seeing the full wingspan of an eagle never really gets old does it? Slowing things down and filming them in slow motion just makes the entire experience even better. From the graceful midair bank, to the delicate landing on a bed of razor sharp oysters. It’s easy to see why these birds rule the skies. | Mark Smith Photography
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Wildlife Videography with the Sony A1 II - Insane Anhinga Fish Flipping Technique
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Wildlife Videography with the Sony A1 II - Insane Anhinga Fish Flipping Technique
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Ever wonder how big a bald eagle really is? This shot puts it all into perspective. I’m guessing this was a large female because as she glides past a boat full of stunned photographers, she looks absolutely massive. And no, this isn’t some camera trick. Bald eagles are big. Some reach a wingspan of 7.5 feet or 2.3 meters!! that’s w i d e r than a California king bed. Also… let’s take a second to appreciate that tracking right through the boat. Someone was really on their game that morning. Cough
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Ever wonder how big a bald eagle really is? This shot puts it all into perspective. I’m guessing this was a large female because as she glides past a boat full of stunned photographers, she looks absolutely massive. And no, this isn’t some camera trick. Bald eagles are big. Some reach a wingspan of 7.5 feet or 2.3 meters!! that’s w i d e r than a California king bed. Also… let’s take a second to appreciate that tracking right through the boat. Someone was really on their game that morning. Cough
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With the sun just barely peeking through a thin veil of clouds, the world’s largest pelican makes its grand entrance set against a soft pastel background of gold and peach. With the wind still sleeping, the surface of the water is as smooth as glass. The majestic bird dangles its toes in before making a perfect landing. It’s almost like the bird was testing the water temperature before deciding to make the plunge. 😊 | Mark Smith Photography
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With the sun just barely peeking through a thin veil of clouds, the world’s largest pelican makes its grand entrance set against a soft pastel background of gold and peach. With the wind still sleeping, the surface of the water is as smooth as glass. The majestic bird dangles its toes in before making a perfect landing. It’s almost like the bird was testing the water temperature before deciding to make the plunge. 😊 | Mark Smith Photography
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This is one of my favorite eagle videos. It really puts so much in perspective. First, you get to see just large or wide an eagle’s wingspan is. Second, somehow I managed to keep the bird in the frame even when it went behind the boat. Third, the boat is my fav driven by my good friend Sam from Nanook Lodge and finally my good friends artist geoffry smith and Neil got a front row seat to this close flyby. | Mark Smith Photography
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From a distance I watched an eagle frantically attacking a tree branch. What the hell was going on I thought. As we got closer, I peered through my zoom lens and the misty rain. Was the bird stuck?? “Sam! Get closer I yelled.” Sam eased the boat in gear and we crept in. How in the world??? The odds of this bird placing one perfect sized talon in the space between those two branches must have been astronomical but there it was and it was definitely stuck. I looked back at Sam and said, “It’s stuc
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Yesterday I was awarded the perfect amount of wind to steer this young eagle directly in front of me and as its flight path brought it closer I quickly reverted into a teenager where I simply couldn’t control the excitement. A soft “oh… oh… oh…” built into an uncontrollable crescendo: “OH! OH! OH!!” I wanted to stay quiet. I really did. But how do you stay silent when the sky delivers something that perfect, that close?Then the bird landed on a small outcropping of exposed oysters. its massive y
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Must SEE! Confident Eagle Drops Slippery Fish Eagles might be masters of their domain but they too have stories of the one that got away. I can hear jt now. Ernie the Eagle, “You should have seen it. It was THIS big!!” Holds wings open wide. Emily the Eagle: “Oh yeah? You should’ve been here yesterday. We stuffed our crops in ten minutes flat.” Bob the Hake fish, “What the heck just happened??” | Mark Smith Photography
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I don’t think I’ve ever seen an eagle fly in and land on the back of another eagle. Was it just a bad landing or was it intentional even better, how did it end? I’ll post the outcome tomorrow. Enjoy. | Mark Smith Photography
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Eagle Rain Fog = One Insane Wildlife MomentBone chilling wind, ice cold rain and a thin veil of fog didn’t seem to stop this majestic eagle. It slammed on the brakes and came sliding in, pantaloons swaying in the breeze, talons curled into tiny fists, eager to wrap themselves around a helpless hake.I love how rain transforms everything in a video or photograph, the look, the mood, the energy. Watching eagles come careening out of the sky while it’s raining, one of my absolute favorite things in
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The ability these birds have to steer their bodies through the air is simply amazing. Controlling every single micro adjustment with their wings and feathers until they reach their intended target. In this case a wounded Hake fish that is nothing more than a snack. This bird will be back for more! | Mark Smith Photography
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Imagine having this much control while flying through the air at great speeds. The power of the majestic bald eagle never ceases to amaze. | Mark Smith Photography
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What happens when a young bald eagle tries to steal a snack from an adult bald eagle? You get an amazing tangle of talons and feathers and a beautiful aerial display just like this. Some of the young birds are very aggressive. They have to be in order to survive. Food isn’t always easy to come by and many times, stealing it from the talons of another is much easier than trying to catch your own. Sounds an awful lot like politics… | Mark Smith Photography
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Great blue herons are a walking contrast. They have such a regal, like beauty, and it seems as if they are completely aware of this, but they are also brutally savage hunters who will wait motionless for hours in hopes of plucking a tasty morsel from the vibrant swampy buffet. It’s catch, a succulent, slippery siren. A type of aquatic salamander that is rarely seen. In fact, the only time I’ve ever seen them is when a heron pulls them from the swamp. Then again, I’m not spending my time face dow
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Sitting silently among the raft of swampy vegetation, the Great Blue Heron waits for the perfect moment to strike its prey from above. With lightning-fast reflexes and a beak designed to impale, grasp, and dismember, very few animals survive their stealthy attack. The moment this bird’s pale grey head plowed through the thick barrier of floating weeds, my heart began to race. These birds will eat anything they can catch, and you never know what they will wrangle from the swamp. In this instance,
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Yesterday I posted a bald eagle with a massive floppy dangler that got carried away with a talon through the eye. That was the “see no evil” edition. This bird has an even larger floppy dangler and has clamped its mouth shut. This is the “speak no evil” edition. | Mark Smith Photography
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Crows and eagles, enemies right? Not today. I think something entirely different is happening here. The crow sat on its oyster perch cawing loudly to the eagle. “Hey big dummy! Over here! Yes you with the impressive wingspan and zero clue!There’s a giant fish right in front of you. Do you have rocks for brains?Caw caw CAW.”Eagle, “What’s that small black bird? I can’t quite hear you over the sound my magnificent beauty. I’m bathing in it right now. Can’t you see this?”Crow, “Yes. You are beautif
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Roseate spoonbills are one kf the strangest birds and the way they catch fish is unbelievable. They sweep their open beak along the muddy bottom hoping to stir up some grub and when something swims between their top and bottom beak, they can actually feel the vibration change in the water. As soon as they do, they snap it up and toss it back like a French fry. Glad I’m not a fish! | Mark Smith Photography
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Somewhere deep in the Discovery Islands, nestled between lush green, fragrant alpines and mountainous cliff sides, a natural phenomenon occurs. Hundreds of migratory fish are caught in a literal life-or-death situation. Their foe isn’t anything living; it’s simply water. String tidal currents create massive upwellings that the fish can’t always evade. If the surge manages to take hold, it sends the fish rushing to the surface in seconds, causing the gasses inside their bodies to expand, filling
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Nature is quite the balancing act. There is a natural phenomenon where schools of fish get pushed to the surface by massive upwelling currents. This happens so fast that all the air or gases inside the fish expand, essentially turning them into balloons. Guess who’s waiting for this event like a teenager waiting for a rock concert? Hundreds of bald eagles—and me, of course. | Mark Smith Photography
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As the feathered fish feeding frenzy unfolded, this Great Blue Heron sat quietly in one spot while all the birds scrambled and fought. It’s funny to watch and learn from wildlife. Many times it’s the bird who stays put who gets the most food. The ones that spend most of their time fighting spend most of their time doing just that, fighting, but as you can see, the Heron was very successful. 3 fish in one catch, and all it had to do was sit quietly in one spot and wait. | Mark Smith Photography
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Insane Osprey Bird In Flight Photography with Nikon D850, D500 & Sony A9
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