While driving around looking for wildlife, we came across a couple of Scarlet macaw that were nested in a tree hole. We were all trying to get nice photos of them when they both flew off and headed to our left. Without changing any camera settings, and knowing that my shutter speed would be really slow, I fired off 5 shots hoping to get a motion pan of the birds flying. I was using the Canon R5 Mark II camera with the RF 100-500mm lens at 428mm. My ISO was set to 1250, aperture at f/6.3 and this gave me a shutter speed of 1/30 of a second. Even though I was shooting handheld, I steadied myself and hoped for the best. This is one of my favorite photos from the trip, and one of the hardest photos I have taken in a really long time. I love the motion and the colors, and knowing the difficulty of getting this with the birds faces pretty sharp.
Sure...we can capture their color without the motion, but I love the challenge of the first shot.
Speaking of the foliage, it is not just the wildlife which offer colorful images. We are surrounded by abundant color on this trip.
We almost always have a free day in the rain forest towards the end of the trip. I usually catch up on work, relax at the pool, and walk the property looking for cool things to photograph. I saw this phosphorescent fly on a flower, zoomed the long lens to 500mm and captured the amazing colors of this little bug. As I mentioned, there is color everywhere, from the biggest subject to the smallest insects.
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