Nature Photography - Shorebirds

Lesson 1: Introduction
Published: July 2010 with Moose Peterson

Duration: 54 minutes

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Wildlife photographer Moose Peterson takes viewers on an excursion onto the shores of Florida, right along the water's edge to capture images of the beautiful winter plumage of shorebirds.

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hey folks, welcome to the beach. Moose Peterson here. We're at Kelby Training. We've brought you down to the beach for a good reason. We're going to go out photographing not just any kind of birds. Shovel birds, dolls, pelicans, turns. Anything we are fortunate not have in front of our lens Jake and I are going to go out, and caption. Now let's just stop for a minute and talk about what we're doing. We're going to photograph birds on the beach whether you're on east coast, west coast, golf coast, any kind of highland on a lake show, all the tactics, all the techniques, and all the gear we're going to talk about the day, apply equally. Now for the economy of travel, we're all going to do it on one beach, and not any beach, we're at the world famous, this is like the maker of show birds we're Fort Maya beach and right of inside of over here is Estero bay. Estero bay we're talking about the most incredible place photograph birds. Now the one thing that's a little bit different is the fact that we're the winter time, most folks come here when? They come here in the spring, we're saying for like February to perhaps April-May, that's because the birds are coming back up from the south heading north, and they're trying to get their summer plumage. I chose now to come do it because most of us when we photograph shovel birds in our rest rooms, seeing them in their winter plumage now what's the difference with winter and in spring plumage one is drab, and ugly one is beautiful, and just spectacular well we don't that beautiful spectacular winter or spring pluence very often lest you get to the right place at the right time, we do see him quite often for long periods of time, no winter [xx] that's why we are here now, cause I want you to understand, see the birds, because each species kind of has its own little niche on the sand, they have their own little way of forging and knows biological differences, change our strategy as photographers, so hey, pack up that sun block, pack it on, get on those shoes, grab your towel, we'll hit the sun man

Moose Peterson

Moose’s true passion has always been and remains photographing the life history of our endangered wildlife and wild places. Since 1981 he and his wife Sharon have dedicated their lives to this pursuit. Educating the public about our wild heritage is their hallmark. Moose’s aviation photography has the same goal of preserving our aviation heritage and the freedoms they protect, pictorial and oral for future generations. Along the way Moose has been honored for his photographic passion: a Nikon Ambassador USA, Lexar Elite Photographer, recipient of the John Muir Conservation Award, Research Associate with the Endangered Species Recovery Program, just to name a few. He was part of Epson’s Finish Strong ad campaign. Moose was the creative producer/photographer of his acclaimed film: Warbirds and The Men Who Flew Them. He shares his knowledge through his writing, being published in over 143 magazines worldwide, author of 28 books including his latest, Photographic FUNdamentals, Taking Flight and best seller Captured. He lectures across the country to thousands upon thousands of photographers every year. One of the original Nikon shooters to receive the D1 in 1999, Moose embraced this new technology, becoming the only wildlife photographer in the world to shoot strictly digital in the early years. While a beta site for all the major hardware and software manufacturers, Moose continues being a creative innovator of new techniques both behind the camera and the computer, which is the driving force behind his photography and goals.