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Photographer’s dilemma: White-plumed Honeyeater in the rain

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White-plumed Honeyeater
White-plumed Honeyeater

The 2 images above are the same photograph of a White-plumed Honeyeater in Royal Park Trin Warren Tam-boore taken on 30 December 2023.

The one of the right has been manipulated by having the tree trunk on the edge removed. At some point in time, every photographer will be tempted to manipulate their photograph for ecstatic reasons. In this case the tree trunk might be seen to be distracting. I experimented using Adobe Photoshop’s generative fill to remove the tree trunk. I was surprise how well it has done. It has even generate rain drops in the area where the tree trunk was.

Personally, I feel that it is my job as a photograph to document the moment and tell a story about where the bird might be. While this is only an experiment, I don’t feel good about publishing a manipulated image.

Nikon Z 9, Nikkor Z 800mm f/6.3 VR S @ 1/800s f/9 ISO450

Spotted Pardalote spotted in Royal Park

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Spotted Pardalote (Female)

Royal Park Trin Warren Tam-boore is quite famous for its population of Spotted Pardalotes. This picture of a female Spotted Pardalote was taken on 24 May 2024. On occasions, these Spotted Pardalotes may be joined by Striated Pardalotes. I don’t have photograph of the Striated Pardalotes that I considered decent. I will post one when I do.

Nikon Z 9, Nikkor Z 800mm f/6.3 VR S @ 1/800s f/6.3 ISO2500

The Laughing Kookaburra of Royal Park

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Laughing Kookaburra

This is a photograph of a resident of Royal Park Trin Warren Tam-boore. It was taken on 1 July 2024. We don’t see or hear it every time we were here but it does appear regularly enough.

Nikon Z 9, Nikkor Z 800mm f/6.3 VR S @ 1/500s f/6.3 ISO640

Golden Whistler of Royal Park

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Golden Whistler (Female)

This portrait of a female Golden Whistler, a resident of Royal Park Trin Warren Tam-boore, was taken on 21 May 2024. It is a fairly friendly bird that will usually call out to me when I am there.

Nikon Z 9, Nikkor Z 800mm f/6.3 VR S @ 1/800s f/6.3 ISO1100

Dusky Woodswallow with an attitude

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Dusky Woodswallow

Another photograph taken in Chiltern on 9 May 2024 at the waterhold. This picture is of a Dusky Woodswallow. I would have prefer more distance between the Woodswallow and the background though but I still think the background is not exactly distracting.

Nikon Z 9, Nikkor Z 800mm f/6.3 VR S, Nikon Z TC-1.4X @ 1120mm 1/800s f/9 ISO720

New Holland Honeyeater

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New Holland Honeyeater

The photograph is of a New Holland Honeyeater taken on 31 May 2024 at the Western Remnant of Royal Park.

This bird is one of the most common birds in Melbourne. They feed on insects and nectar. As the photograph depicts, the face of the bird has quite a bit of pollen which suggests that they act as pollinators as well.

Nikon Z 9, Nikkor Z 800mm f/6.3 VR S @ 1/800s f/6.3 ISO1100

Rainbow Bee-eater

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Rainbow Bee-eater

We visited Newstead Cemetery on 28 December 2023 for the first time. Newstead Cemetery is famous for its Rainbow Bee-eater. When we got there, we immediately understood its infamy. It is ridiculously easy to photograph birds with an extremely clean and featureless background.

Nikon Z 9, Nikkor Z 800mm f/6.3 VR S @ 1/500s f/6.3 ISO200

Striated Heron observed in Malaysian Park

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Striated Heron
Striated Heron

These photographs of a Striated Heron was taken on 1 November 2023 in Taman Tasik Shah Alam – a park in Malaysia. We wasn’t expecting to be taking photographs as the sunlight was rather harsh during the middle of the day. When this Striated Heron showed itself, I could resist and start snapping. To my surprise, the particular spot the heron was at had fairly decent soft filtered light.

The heron was on a path that is elevated. I was in a gully and pointed the camera at the bird while in a standing position. This provided a low camera position to capture these delightful images.

Nikon Z 9, AF-S NIKKOR 500MM F/5.6E PF ED VR, AF-S TC-14E III, FTZ II @ 700mm 1/640s f/8 ISO280

Malaysia Macaque

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Macaque

This photograph was taken in Malaysia’s Taman Bukit Kiara Park. It depicts what I believe is a Long-tailed Macaque – a common monkey of Southeast Asia.

Taman Bukit Kiara is a public park with a stream running through it. It is popular with local residents. There is a fairly sizeable population of these primates calling the park home.

Nikon Z 9, AF-S NIKKOR 500MM F/5.6E PF ED VR, AF-S TC-14E III, FTZ II @ 700mm 1/500s f/8 ISO800