Australian Waterbirds Photo Gallery by Ian at pbase.com

Australian Waterbirds

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Black Swan	Hardhead	Comb-crested Jacana - (Irediparra gallinacea)	Pacific Black Duck
Great Egret	Purple Swamphen	White-faced Heron	White-faced Heron
Black-necked Stork - Jabiru	White-faced Heron	White-faced Heron	Pacific Black Duck
Grey Teal	Australian Wood Duck - male	Eurasian Coote	Brolga
Great Egret	Australian Wood Duck	Australian White Ibis	Australian Wood Duck
Straw-necked Ibis	Straw-necked Ibis	Australian Pelican	Crested Tern
Caspian Tern	Caspian Tern	Dusky Moorhen	White-necked Heron
Australian Pelican	Australian Pelican	Straw-necked Ibis	Purple Swamphen
Black-winged Stilt	Black-winged Stilt	White-faced Heron	Cattle Egret
Crested Tern	Australian White Ibis	Pacific Black Duck	Yellow-billed Spoonbill
Intermediate Egret	Black-necked Stork - Jabiru	Glossy Ibis	Glossy Ibis
Glossy Ibis	Pied Heron	Pied Heron	Pied Heron
Pied Heron	Pied Heron	Comb-crested Jacana - (Irediparra gallinacea)	Magpie Geese
Wandering Whistling Duck	Cattle Egret	Radjah Shellduck	Plumed Whistling-duck
Plumed Whistling-duck	Plumed Whistling-duck	Magpie Geese	Green Pygmy-goose
Green Pygmy-goose	White-browed Crake	Wandering Whistling-duck	Intermediate Egret
Royal Spoonbill	Magpie Goose - Portrait	White-faced Heron	Pied Heron
Intermediate Egret	Intermediate Egret	Royal Spoonbill	Pied Oystercatcher
Pied Oystercatcher - Portrait	Pied Oystercatcher	Australian Pelican	Australian Pelican - Portrait
Red-capped Plover	Wandering Whistling Duck	White-necked Heron	Bar-tailed Godwit
Bar-tailed Godwit	Bar-tailed Godwit	Eastern Curlew	Australian Wood Duck
Cattle Egret	Cattle Egret	Cattle Egret	Pacific Black Duck
Little Egret - Egretta garzetta	Dusky Moorhen	Beach Stone-curlew	Beach Stone-curlew
Beach Stone-curlew	Little Tern	Red-capped Plover	Red-capped Plover
Little Tern	Sanderling	White-necked Heron	Australian Pelican

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John G Reed	PM reply	05-Feb-2012 02:50
Tremendous gallery. Best. J

fotabug	PM reply	17-Dec-2011 02:53
Superb gallery! So enjoyable!

Darren J Callesen		10-Oct-2011 08:12
Simply stunning and inspirational aquatic bird photography, I regularly photograph most of the birds featured here (the inland ones) and they are very, very hard to approach most of the time (there are usually lookouts which give you up no matter how hard you try to conceal your approach) so well done, your colour management is superb, and these images are ultra sharp (nice choice of lens in the Canon 500mmF4L and you obviously make very good use of it. I want one santa) you obviously shoot the majority of your work at well above F8 which is lovely to see for a change (really getting a little bit sick of images which are shot wide open to get bokeh, even though it can be beautiful, most photographers abuse the effect and quite often it is accidental anyhow) To shoot these birds at over F8 and maintain a relatively low ISO under 400 (to keep the digital noise down which you have obviously done) and still get sharp captures is difficult as the shutter speeds can be very slow unless very bright conditions are encountered, (circular polarizing filters must have also been used,(no glare off of the water) an almost essential piece of kit in Australian aquatic bird photography, so another couple of stops lost) so very well done Ian. It is also nice to see that you haven't followed the recent trend of very heavy vignetting. Although it might not be obvious to most photographers these shots have been very carefully crafted and must have been shoot in manual mode, you simply don't get results like this using program or auto modes, so Ian must really know his stuff. The composition of the majority of photos on this site are exceptional and really show off our great wild country and its feathered inhabitants. I look forward to seeing your future posts. Again WELL DONE Ian. Happy Snappin' Darren J Callesen.

AB		09-Jul-2011 03:59
Exceptional work. Thanks you.

joseantonio	PM reply	21-Nov-2010 05:50
Excellent collection

rene hoff	PM reply	21-Sep-2008 07:21
Beautiful Galerie -V-

ZingglPhotography	PM reply	05-Aug-2008 12:09
good capture!!

Ali Majdfar	PM reply	04-Jul-2008 08:38
Lovely captures, ~V

Karen Moen	PM reply	03-May-2008 08:11
The quality of your work is excellent. The images are incredibly sharp and the color rich. Well done. Voted.

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