Updating Galleries - Piping Plover

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It may be a little late to begin working on one of my 2019 New Year’s Resolutions, but better late than never. I resolved to place selected images in galleries on my web sites rather than letting them continue to lie dormant in their input files. Yesterday I added 7 photos of Piping Plovers to my Smugmug site.

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Piping Plover - Opal Beach FL - Sept. 2011
Nikon D300S, 500mm f/4 lens + 1.7x teleconverter
1/1600 sec at f/7.1, ISO 400

Piping Plover - Opal Beach FL - July 2010
Nikon D300, 500mm f/4 lens + 1.7x teleconverter
1/320 sec at f/6.7, ISO 250

Piping Plover - Bolivar Peninsula TX - Oct. 2012
Nikon D300S, 300mm f/2.8 lens + 1.7x teleconverter
1/1250 sec at f/8, ISO 500

Piping Plover - Opal Beach FL - August 2011
Nikon D300S, 500mm f/4 lens + 1.4x teleconverter
1/320 sec at f/7.1, ISO 400

Piping Plover - Opal Beach FL - August 2011
Nikon D300S, 500mm f/4 lens + 1.4x teleconverter
1/1000 sec at f/7.1, ISO 250

Piping Plover - Bolivar Peninsula TX - July 2013
Nikon D300S, 300mm f/2.8 lens + 1.7x teleconverter
1/2500 sec at f/8, ISO 800

Piping Plover - Bolivar Peninsula TX - September 2016
Nikon D500, 500mm f/4 lens + 2.0x teleconverter
1/3200 sec at f/9, ISO 1250

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David Sparks

I retired in 2005 after 40 years of research and teaching at the University of Alabama in Birmingham (24 years), the University of Pennsylvania (8 years) and the Baylor College of Medicine (8 years). Photography is my retirement hobby.

Nature photography, especially bird photography, combines a number of things that I really enjoy: bird-watching, being outdoors, photography, travel, messing about with computers, and learning new skills and concepts.  I now spend much of my time engaged in these activities.

David Sibley in the preface to The Sibley Guide to Birds wrote "Birds are beautiful, in spectacular as well as subtle ways; their colors, shapes, actions, and sounds are among the most aesthetically pleasing in nature."  My goal is to acquire images that capture the beauty and uniqueness of selected species as well as images that highlight the engaging behaviors the birds exhibit.