This Week in My Viewfinder

Yes, it’s been a while. OK…a little more than a while.
Catching up #1.

July 4, 2021

Text and photos by LensAfield

I haven’t posted in weeks because the job has been horrifically busy and I was busy learning, using, and evaluating two new cameras; plus revisiting—with fresh eyes and a newly learned trick—another that uses twenty-year-old technology.

So where was I when I last posted?…

The geese had their puppies. Five.

They hatched about an hour earlier. They are headed for a drainage pond about a hundred yards away.

I said in a previous post that I bought a new Nikon Z6 II mirrorless camera but returned it. The electronic viewfinder is not conducive to my primary shooting interests. I swapped it for the top-of-the-line DX-format D500 DSLR instead. The difference in price was just about enough to purchase the much less expensive small mirrorless Z50. I bought it because I do want to become familiar with mirrorless technology and I can see some specific uses for this small-profile camera.

Spring was moving along nicely. It was time to take my new gear out for some field testing, along with an ancient D70s, to shoot my favorite subjects. Here are some shots in no particular order of presentation. Taken over the last four weeks.

honeybee in the cactus

g. Anthidium, a very aggressive little bee, among Sedum Angelina

Paper wasp taking off

Bumblebee rising from cactus bloom. Note the pollen flung off the wings in the upper right.

Bumblebee approaching swamp milkweed

working the weed

Sharing space has its limits

That takes me up to the shot limit. Lots more to show if you’re interested in this kind of thing.