Birds

So over spring brake me and my dad went on a trip to Arizona to photograph birds. Mainly it was for my science project but it was also to learn how to take good pictures with big lenses and stuff like that. Me and my dad had a really good time and he also taught me how to do panoramas and shoot in HDRI. Here are some of my favorite bird pics that I took.


This bird was impossible to photograph because it was very hyper and only sat still for about a second before jumping away. To get this pic I had to be lucky enough to have my camera focused on the right spot before the bird got there.


This bird is a hepatic tanedger (ya thats an awsome name) and it is a rare bird. In this picture it is collecting nesting materials.


This is my favorit european starling pic ever!!!! I shot this on one of my first days with my dads camera and I was really proud of it.



This pic was cool because the two canyon wrens just sat there like that the whole time that we were there. One thing that I wonder is how they stand on the cactus and not get stabbed by its needles.

This bird is called an Elogant Trogan. It is wery rare and we only found it because it nests in this same place every year.

This is an Anna's Humming Bird. It is not really that color that was just the way that the light was hitting him.

This bird surprised us because usually road runners are hard to photograph. This one wasn't. He lived near are camp ground and ran through every day at about 4:oo. He wasn't shy and would run around all of the campsites very slowly. me and my dad were so surprised to see him that we each shot like 15 pics of him. This was the best one and ofcorse I took it.

These are Turkey vultures. That is a dead elephant seal. It may look cool but it smelled terrible. Imagine a 6ft long seal left dead on a beach for two weeks. Ewwww!

In the end me and my dad took over 5,000 pics and went from Sierra Vista Arizona (A small boarder town in eastern AZ) to Monetary California. Covering well over 3,000 miles in about 9 days.

Edward Burtynsky

Edward Burtynky was born in St. Catherine's, Ontario in 1955. In college he studied photography and graphic design. Now Burtynsky's work is in over 55 museums world wide and he has several books. Burtynsky is famous for shooting images of land scape's and junk yards and things like that.

I like this image because it is so detailed. Their is so much to look at with all of the paintings and designs. I love how red this image is but the painting at the top brings in a lot of other colors too. I wonder where this theater is, could it be the Paris Opera house?


This Image if very different from the last one and I like it better. I wonder how tall that pile of tires on the right is. I like how all of the tires are different yet the same and how some areas are really densely tired while you can see the ground in others.

This Image is different from the first two in that It is not man made. The river looks like lava but now that I think of it the river could be extremely polluted. That would fit in with Burtynskys theme of destroyed environments better.

What are all of these string things? some of them look like wires but what are the others. This images also fits into the similar but different category of the tires.

This is my favorite image by Burtynsky. The light is amazing and those boats look huge. I love how in the back ground you can see other boat because it shows that this isn't necessarily a rarity. I also like the pools of water in the mud an the reflection of the boat. I wonder if the ocean still goes high enough to reach the boat because if it does than that would also be a cool picture.