April 2013
Beginner
368 pages
9h 3m
English
Content preview from The Handbook of Bird Photography
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BOSQUE DEL APACHE, NEW MEXICO
The Bosque is an excellent place to practice taking flock images.
The Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge is in Socorro, in the Rio Grande Valley in New Mexico. Snow Geese and Ross’s Geese winter there, numbering in the tens of thousands, and also about 10,000 Sandhill Cranes. The place offers great opportunities for taking flock images, as well as portraits and flight shots. The birds are fearless and feed confidently near photographers standing calmly by their tripods. When I was trying to find a really low angle to shoot from, I noticed that the birds were not used to people lying on the ground; they were very suspicious of me because I was behaving differently. The more openly the photographer ...
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