Forest Lake is a male created suburban improvement found about 22 kms south west of Brisbane in Queensland, Australia. The most important feature, the lake alone, is also person built but soon after a lot more than 10 years, has made into a sanctuary for lots of varieties of drinking water chicken species. The water dragon with its chameleon design and style colouring of greens, blues and browns is a different popular inhabitant of this lake ecosystem.
I invest a lot of hours at the lake with Moxie, my minimal mini fox terrier, normally using alongside just one of a number of Nikon DSLR cameras for organization. My favourite lens in this space is a Nikon 55-200mm zoom lens that enables me to get shut and private with the wildlife, often making magnificent pictures. The moment I’m back at property, I cannot hold out to system the shots and add them to on of my world wide web sites for folks to check out.
The most frequent wildlife are the Pacific Black Ducks, Mallards, Swamp Hen and Dusky Moorhen. Sitting down quietly on a bench in the sunshine is my favorite previous time as these birds scoot across the water in a spray of drinking water as they land, grabbing at the bread choices thrown to them by passers-by. I consider and capture their minute of landing working with shutter precedence of 1/500s to 1/1000s, freezing the droplets of h2o cascading off the birds. From time to time, I see black swans, tasteful in a spread winged pose on the lake. The zoom lens will come in handy at these instances, as they are commonly in the centre of the lake. Other site visitors are the flights of snowy white cockatoos and corellas as they noisily screech overhead just before roosting in just one of the quite a few eucalyptus trees encompassing the lake. A very good panning technique normally allows me seize some astounding pictures of birds in flight. 1 on my favourite birds is the Australasian Darter which submerges alone to catch modest fish inhabiting the lake waters. As the hen spreads its wings, the colours glistening in the sunshine, I emphasis on the darter with a substantial aperture on my Nikon to blur the history out of emphasis.
I’ve generally attempted to pan across the sky chasing the elusive Residence Martins and Swallows as they wheel and dart throughout the surface of the lake searching insect prey. When I absolutely want a rapidly shutter speed, the only way I acquire an instant shot of one of the rapid shifting birds is to hearth a flurry of rapid pictures, hoping one particular of the frames makes the products!
As I mentioned, I have spent a lot of several hours at this lake, which is a 10 minute stroll from where by I dwell. I by no means tire of the selection of wildlife here and hope to shell out many far more hrs of my retirement accomplishing what I really like ideal – wildlife pictures.