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Yesterday I spent about 2 hours at Lakeview Marina here in Windsor waiting for ducks to fly by for some flight shots. As I was setting up a woman approached me and noticed my lens and said "holy cow are you shooting for National Geographic or something?!?!". I said no, just freelance, selling them to whoever will buy them. A few minutes pass and I'm still talking with this lady and my phone vibrates. I take a look and I've got an email...from National Geographic. They're using the below Owl shot in the National Geographic Backyard Guide To The Birds Of North America...I'm still not sure if I'm dreaming or not...And the book will be available in bookstores towards the end of the month...Anyways just thought I'd share that with all of you since I've been posting shots here since day 1 and I appreciate all the feedback from everyone over the years. so THANK YOU! It's an Eastern Screech-Owl taken back in 2008 here in Windsor at Ojibway Nature Preserve Eastern Screech Owl - Nat Geo by bbroderick86, on Flickr And here are the Redhead and Canvasback shots from yesterday...enjoy! Drake Redhead by bbroderick86, on Flickr Drake Redhead by bbroderick86, on Flickr Redheads and Canvasbacks by bbroderick86, on Flickr Female Redhead by bbroderick86, on Flickr

I was out photographing waterfowl once again here in Windsor this afternoon. The ducks weren't flying that much and just as I was about to leave another opportunity came up. I've been to Lakeview Marina many times this winter and there's been Bald Eagles each time, 17 is the most I counted at once. However the eagles tend to stay either quite close to Peche Island or extremely high up in the sky making them impossible to shoot, well quality photos anyways. Things changed today when an immature Bald Eagle came quite close to the marina and eventually snagged a shad from the river. Below is the series of the eagle catching the shad as well as 2 other flight shots. These photos aren't very marketable due to the fact that the eagle was facing away from the camera when it caught the fish but it's still a pretty cool series of shots and I hope you enjoy them! Bald Eagle by bbroderick86, on Flickr Bald Eagle by bbroderick86, on Flickr Bald Eagle by bbroderick86, on Flickr Bald Eagle by bbroderick86, on Flickr Bald Eagle by bbroderick86, on Flickr Bald Eagle by bbroderick86, on Flickr Bald Eagle by bbroderick86, on Flickr Bald Eagle by bbroderick86, on Flickr Bald Eagle by bbroderick86, on Flickr Bald Eagle by bbroderick86, on Flickr Immature Bald Eagle by bbroderick86, on Flickr Bald Eagle by bbroderick86, on Flickr

Thanks!...and yes i converted it to b/w...in the colour version they're bills are quite orange

I'm sure you've all see a photo of swans making the heart shape with their necks during their courtship rituals. Well I've also seen photos of this happening and wanted one of my own...today I accomplished that goal here in Windsor while shooting some waterfowl in flight. Here's the shot of the swans followed by a couple flight shots, enjoy! Mute Swan courtship Courting Mute Swans by bbroderick86, on Flickr Redhead in flight Redhead in Flight by bbroderick86, on Flickr Canvasback in flight Canvasback in Flight by bbroderick86, on Flickr

ANOTHER sunny day here so I went out in search of deer to photograph. There certainly wasn't a shortage of them so I was able to get some photos. These first ones are of 2 bucks...one clearly unhappy with the other AH3G7244 by bbroderick86, on Flickr AH3G7249 by bbroderick86, on Flickr AH3G7253 by bbroderick86, on Flickr Theres 10 shots in total of that buck attacking the other one and they can all be found at http://www.flickr.com/photos/27701922@N08/sets/72157626185122648/ And here are a couple other shots....enjoy! Doe and Fawn by bbroderick86, on Flickr Fawn by bbroderick86, on Flickr

you are correct topraider. someone pointed that out earlier on a hunting forum, I just forgot to change it here. Thanks for the reminder!

Had a couple hours of decent light on friday so I tried to make the most of it... Black-capped Chickadee by bbroderick86, on Flickr 1/1250 @ f/4, ISO 200, 500mm Downy Woodpecker by bbroderick86, on Flickr 1/1250 @ f/4.5, ISO 250, 500mm Canvasback take off by bbroderick86, on Flickr 1/2000 @ f/8, ISO 640, 500mm

nice shot John!

nice shot Dan!

It was nice seeing you again Brian! Lew, I heard you were there but I couldn't find ya. I also chatted quite a bit with Steve Rowbotham. I'll be there wandering around all day tomorrow. I'll be wearing shorts, a blue hoodie, and have a camera around my neck - say hi if you see me!

According to the Spring Fishing Show website - "Cash only at ticket counters. ABM available on site." http://www.springfishingandboatshow.com/Visitor_Info/index.html

not to be "that" guy but it's Mourning Dove....nice shot!

I went to Lakeview Marina in Windsor yesterday for a few hours. The river is starting to open up so the ducks aren't as concentrated near the marina as they were before. There was still a few around but the photo opportunities were few and far between...which is why you'll see more photos of geese and swans than ducks....enjoy! Drake Mallard in Flight by bbroderick86, on Flickr Mute Swan in Flight by bbroderick86, on Flickr These next 2 are of a Canada Goose taking off from the water Canada Goose Taking Flight by bbroderick86, on Flickr Canada Goose Taking Flight by bbroderick86, on Flickr

I'll be there friday and saturday. I'll be wearing a blue hoodie and passing out business cards to anyone and everyone that's willing to accept them....or until I'm kicked out....say hi if you see me!

Yesterday it was quite windy here in Windsor so I decided to take advantage of it. Normally to have clouds moving fast in a time lapse, I'd have to shoot over a couple hours at 30-60 sec intervals between photos. But with the wind already making the clouds move fast, I was able to shoot this entire video in an hour at 5second intervals between the photos. Enjoy! <iframe title="YouTube video player" width="640" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/PuUdybPRM7I" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

I think I'm driving up Saturday but I'm waiting for them to post the schedule before I decide.

I added the new intro/outro to the original post. Let me know what you think!

Thanks for the suggestions guys. I've decided to just re-shoot and keep things more simple...still movement, just not as much of it. It's basically just the words with blue sky/clouds moving in the background. I'm also creating a colour and black and white version. I'll post them when they're ready.

Yeah I'm calling it an Intro but I really haven't decided if I'm going to use it at the beginning or ending of the videos yet. So that's why I kept it to such a short length.

New One <iframe title="YouTube video player" width="640" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/khmR8lFtA8M?hd=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Old One <iframe title="YouTube video player" width="640" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/simEOMne1Ko?hd=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> *EDIT* I re-shot the intro/outro time lapse and I'd appreciate your opinions on the new one. Thanks! For a while now I've been wanting to shoot an official intro to use for all my time lapse videos. I wasn't sure exactly what I wanted but I knew the intro had to be a time lapse itself...just make sense, right? I'm not sure why but a few days ago I took notice of the shadows my railing cast upon my balcony. Movement in a time lapse is what creates interest so I knew I'd have to incorporate the railing shadows somehow into the intro. I also thought it would be cool to time lapse water freezing. And to take it one step further, have something in the water that would be floating around and moving throughout the time lapse until it froze. Now that I had some ideas, it was time to make it all work...or try anyways. I picked up a casserole dish to hold the water and an upside down laundry basket covered with white bristol board to hold up the casserole dish. My tripod has a centre column so I can't get it very close to the ground, that's why I needed to boost the casserole dish up with the laundry basket. The next step was to create the text portion, the part that would be floating around in the water as it froze. The text would read "A Brandon Broderick Production". I was going to just write it with a sharpie on a piece of cardboard but I'm a guy, and i have messy writing. To solve this problem I went the microsoft word route. Each letter was individually cut and taped to the cardboard. A second, smaller piece of cardboard wrapped in wax paper was hidden and taped to the underside of the piece with the words on it. I figured this would slow down the deterioration of the cardboard from the water. With all these details figured out, it was time to shoot. I shot it Friday over a 2 hour period because I wanted to really show the movements of the railing shadows. And 2 hours did provide lots of movement from the shadows, but there was a problem with the cardboard. The piece I used was too small which meant the wind could blow it all over the the surface of the water within the casserole dish. This was kind of the point, however the cardboard moved way too drastically between frames and was very dizzying and hard to read. It was so bad that if I were to use that intro, I wouldhave had to include a "may cause seizures" warning before each video as well. I don't want 2 intros and I knew saturday would be another sunny day so I just shot it again and made some changes. Also I'd like to pointout that the amount of water it takes to fill a casserole dish won't freeze in 2-3hrs when it's -5 celsius. I wish it did though... The first change I had to make was to change the size of the cardboard. I made it just a bit smaller than the casserole dish so it would still move, but not as much. I also made the text bigger so it was easier to read, another problem with the previous attempt. I decided to shoot this second attempt over a 3hr period to really get those shadows moving. Around 1 o'clock saturday afternoon I set everything up again with all the changes made including a change to the interval between photos. For those not familiar with time lapses, they're basically just a bunch of individual photos played one after the other. An intervalometer is plugged into the camera and you can choose how many seconds you want in between each image. The smoother you want your video to look, the shorter the distance between shots. The intervals I normally shoot at are between 2 and 10 seconds. If I had shot at, lets say 10 second intervals friday, over a 3hr period, I would have shot 1080 photos. I create each time lapse at 24 frames persecond and with 1080 frames, my small tiny video intro becomes a 45 secondclip... that's a pretty boring/lengthy start to a video. For the 3 hour shoot saturday I set my interval at 2 minutes. This means I would end up with about 90 frames to work with and that would give me about a 3-4 second clip. That's right, 3 hours shooting for a 3 second clip. Alright I'm starting to get too technical. Here's the summary. Friday I shot the intro time lapse. It didn't look how I wanted so Saturday I made some changes and re-shot it. Let me know what you think!

I just saw that in an email this morning. May have to put an order in as well.

beauty! love the sparkling snow in the foreground!

lol nah I was just trying to spread the word

lol never thought about that....

I just tweeted it...good luck!