Thanks lulu❤

Thanks for the feedback!

There weren't any birds in the immediate area when I flew the drone, that was just for the scenic shots. I certainly wasn't chasing birds with the drone.

haha, totally! Thanks for watching

Thanks so much, it's great to hear you enjoyed it so much! Haha about the coyote and road runner! I'd have loved either of those to actually show up!!!

I'm usually not a fan of the bird being super small either but I think when the bird is at the top of a hill or rock it works really well, in Australia we have a rock warbler and I have seen some amazing small in frame shots of that bird. I think the sweet spot for small in frame shots is 100mm, you have to be pretty close but I have found 200mm still compresses the background heaps.

Thanks so much and yeah I was having a blast out there even when I had the wrong bird ID half the time haha. I guess it's tough when they are specks in the frame!

So glad you enjoyed it, it was such a cool place and I was excited to share it!

Thanks so much Peter, these are my favorite videos as well! It's tough to find subjects and locations that work great for it and I'll keep trying to share more!

I'm not sure what you mean, the AF was setup for animal eye-tracking and did great for the most part. If it didn't I just switched to single point and composed how I wanted. Can you clarify more what you mean? I was shooting with the Z9.

@ l have not shot with a Z9 but am lead to believe the bird eye autofocus was very good but watching the video l felt it did a poor job of attaining focus. I will watch again

@@isotechimages.9130 you aren't wrong. I was shooting a ton of small in frame stuff in very flat lighting. It also didn't help that the Rock Wren is basically the same color as its surroundings. I don't know of any camera system that would have nailed that setup, some may have gotten it better in some of those scenarios. The Z9 got some but a lot of the times the eye-tracking was failing so I just resorted to shooting like the old days with single point and focus-lock-compose method that I'm used to. I think it was more this scenario than anything that caused it to be so bad and it's funny I didn't even notice it when I was shooting or review the footage until you mentioned something and now I do see it was missing a lot of the time!

@@RayHennessy well we can see you were having hell of a good time 👍

@@isotechimages.9130 also thanks for watching, hopefully you enjoyed it other than the troublesome AF!

Thanks for the feedback!

Thanks!

Thanks for watching!

Thank you!

You should go for it, getting deep into boreal habitat and spending time with all these wonderful birds!

Ah yes, thanks for the clarification, I should have known that. Thanks for watching as well!

Thanks for watching and for the wonderful feedback! More to come

Haha, seems like it doesn't it! Well I don't know that our van needs a series but I can certainly make a video about it, we've made a few on Emilie's KZbin channel, although we don't post there too often. You can see more about our van at www.youtube.com/@EmmieOnTheRoad

That totally makes sense and is what we experienced, of course photography just looks so much nicer out in the more barren dunes! We'll have to try visiting again in the warmer months to see about some of the endemic lizards, that would be awesome to see! Thanks for the comment!

Oops, typed that before seeing the end of the video!

@@bgorum7 no worries, I appreciate the info!

I'm glad you enjoyed it and thanks for watching as always!

Damn you are good! Such an amazing area!

Thanks so much!

It's not currently in my 2025 lineup mostly due to conflicts with other locations I'm working but it's possible it could come back again in the future, who knows.

Thanks so much!

They sure are stunning, so cool you get them in your backyard! You live in an amazing place for sure!

Thanks so much!

Thanks so much Peter, it's great to hear you enjoy it and that's awesome you share the passion with your wife as well! I agree with you she is an amazing photographer and you will certainly see more of her stuff here in the future!

Thanks so much, thanks for the comment!

Thanks so much for watching and the comment. Glad you are thinking about different ways to photograph wildlife. Check out this video to see some of my smaller in frame stuff www.rayhennessy.com/lessons/mixed-songbirds-deer-and-a-bobcat-in-new-jersey

Wide shot

Thanks so much for the feedback and I'm glad you are learning from me, that's always so great to hear! I'm with you on the sharpness thing but sometimes if you can see it's soft in the full view without zooming in then it's too much of a miss for me personally. If you have to zoom in to tell it's soft then it might get by.

Thanks so much, glad you like that one!

Thanks for watching and the feedback, I'm glad you have enjoyed it! Thanks for the recommendation as well, we've left the area for the year but I'm sure we'll be back sometime.

@@RayHennessy If you haven't already, I hope you make it to Bosque del Apache NWR in New Mexico. Some of the most amazing birding in the country.

@@glenmitchell4868 I have been before and I wasn't particularly impressed, maybe it was a bad time. I was there for the festival of the cranes but the photography was mostly mediocre during the week I was there.

Thanks so much, it's great to hear you are enjoying them!

It's a ProMediaGear TR42MX - you can find a list of all my gear at www.rayhennessy.com/faq

They can be challenging but once you learn their specific habitat they get a lot easier. I have openings for joining me to photograph them this winter if you are are interested. You can find out more at www.rayhennessy.com/wildlife-workshops/florida-scrub-jay

What you said, it's all part of it isn't it! That's great you are headed to the desert in April, should be an amazing time of year to be there! I've only ever been in the winter and it's really slow!

Thank you!❤

Thanks Andy, yes that Canyon Wren was really fun!

haha, works like a charm!

Thanks so much for watching and for the wonderful comment Sparky. That's great you have been up to Churchill a few times and I'm sure you would love the Nome/Utqiagvik trip!

Yeah, some of these younger photographers are already doing amazing stuff! Thanks for watching Peter.

Thanks Donna, he got an amazing shot!

@RayHennessy Absolutely 💯

Sure thing, glad it's been helpful to watch that way!

Haha, true! Thanks for watching and yeah those Canyon Wrens are stunners!