Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: house finch

Playing again with my new Nikon 1 V2. The learning curve for this camera (I'm moving from a V1) is mostly finding the repositioned controls. Joan, who's moving to a V2 from a J1, is reporting more difficulty.

With an attitude.

Cropped from this photo .

Explored! #233 [5/11/2013]. (No longer in the top 500; so it goes.) Another pic from last May 10....

Some birds retain their color better than others....

Joan decided we needed something like cminer52's stump , and suggested we do something with the extra birdbath base. She was right. (Thanks, Gary.) Now we need to figure out how to keep the neighborhood cats from knocking it down overnight....

A House Finch chases a Chipping Sparrow from our feeder. They'd been sharing the feeder for several minutes. Then something changed. I like this photo enough that I'm ignoring its technical shortcomings; I was shooting through a reflection on our window, and that shows.

Another Finch at Feeder photo, showing off the detail this camera/lens combination can capture. ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . 366 Snaps project discussion for May 13 .

I didn't take a lot of photographs last May 5, but I spent half of an hour in Photoshop Elements trying to make a couple goldfinch shots into something they weren't. Then I worked for a while on another photo of this bird. Eventually I figured out that wasn't working, and went with the best shot in the set. And here it is again, in color. Despite my efforts to displace it, this is one of my favorites from last year's project. ========== I notice windsordi asked why I decolorized this one . The fact is that I like the monochrome version better, regardless of "policy" issues. YMMV, of course. ========== This photograph is an outtake--well, actually it's a different version of the photo I posted a year ago--from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . Number of project photos taken: 11 Title of " roll :" Birds Other photos taken on 5/5/2012: A few hours later I was (again) trying to photograph a white-crowned sparrow. And the late-in-the-day flower census didn't find any new developments in the garden beds.