Mourning Dove Head

Photograph by Matt Blaze

May 22, 1999. Palo Alto, California. This dove seemed to be almost completely unbothered by camera equipment and made no effort to move away when approached slowly. Image taken on 35mm Kodak E100S film under natural light and fill flash with a Nikkor AF-D 200mm F/4 EDIF Micro lens and TC14B teleconverter (connected via a PK12 ring) attached to a Nikon F4s camera body mounted on an Arca-Swiss B1 ball head atop Bogen 3221 tripod legs. Digitized with a Nikon LS-2000 film scanner and converted to JPEG with Adobe Photoshop 5.0. Copyright © 1999 by Matt Blaze. All rights reserved. You may not copy, modify or use this image for any commercial or non-commercial purpose without permission. Click here for other bird photos.