I was excited to meet up with a fellow photographer at Hendricks Park, Eugene's oldest. We had a nice conversation about photography and equipment. He is a Nikon user also and here was shooting with an older Nikkor 500mm manual focus AIS lens. At this spot he was shooting fern fronds and getting great separation by using a long telephoto.

I learned that he is a professional photographer whose main interests are landscape, bird and botanical photography. If you would like to see his website and some of his work, this is the link - http://www.headwatersphoto.com Take a look, I think he is very good!