Forest Lake is a man from suburban development about 22 km south-west of Brisbane in Queensland, Australia. The main feature of the lake itself, and is man made, but after more than 10 years, has become a haven for many species of water birds. The water dragon with his chameleon style coloring of greens, blues and browns is another popular inhabitant of this lake ecosystem.
I spend many hours on the lake with Moxie, my little mini fox terrier, often taking along one of several Nikon DSLR cameras for businesses. My favorite lens in this range is a Nikon 55-200mm zoom lens, with the animal world, which often makes me close and personal spectacular shots. Once I'm back home, I can not wait to edit the photos and invite you to see them on my web pages for people.
I spend many hours on the lake with Moxie, my little mini fox terrier, often taking along one of several Nikon DSLR cameras for businesses. My favorite lens in this range is a Nikon 55-200mm zoom lens, with the animal world, which often makes me close and personal spectacular shots. Once I'm back home, I can not wait to edit the photos and invite you to see them on my web pages for people.
The most common animal world, the Pacific Black Ducks, Mallards, Swamp Hen and Dusky Moorhen. Sitting quietly on a bench in the sun is my favorite past time, since these birds scoot across the water in a spray of water as they land, packed with the offerings of bread thrown to them. Passers-by I try and capture their moment of landing with auto iris from 1/500s to 1/1000s, freezing the droplets of water cascading the birds. Sometimes I see black swans, elegant in a spread winged pose on the lake. The zoom lens is handy in these times because they. Usually in the middle of the lake Other visitors are the flights of snow-white cockatoos and corellas as they screech noisily roosting in one of the many eucalyptus trees around the lake. A good panning technique often leaves me capture some amazing photos of birds in flight. One of my favorite birds is the Australasian Darter, which submerges himself to catch small fish inhabit the waters of the lake. When the bird spreads its wings, the colors shine in the sun, I focus on the darter with a large opening on my Nikon to blur the background blurred.
I have tried many times over the sky chasing the hard martins and swallows, as they pivot wheel and flit over the surface of the lake hunting insect prey. While I definitely need a fast shutter speed, is the only way I take an immediate shot from a fire in the fast moving birds hectic quick shots, hoping one of the frames produced the goods!
Like I said, I have spent many hours on this lake, which is only 10 minutes from where I live. I'll never do get tired of the variety of wildlife here and hope to many more hours of my retirement, what I most love to spend - wildlife photography.
