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# Photo Legend #24 — Spring time
- URL: https://numericcitizen.me/photo-legend-24-spring-time-8a091917/
- Published: 2021-04-18T12:01:26.000Z
- Updated: 2021-11-15T00:16:00.000Z
- Author: JF Martin
- Tags: #substack, Photo Legend Series

I recently went for a long walk of 8 km on a small island called “Nun’s island”, just outside of Montreal. It was a superb spring day. For the occasion, my iPhone 11 Pro stayed in my pocket as I had my Nikon D750 camera with me with my 70-200 mm lens. On that sunny and warm day, there was so many birds, all with their distinctive sounds, it was intense and of a great pleasure to listen to. *It felt like spring*. Birds were really everywhere around me; it was hard to miss them.

I’m not into birds photography at all; I’m not patient enough to wait for them for the right moment. Yet, while waiting for some friends to join me for that walk, I had the pleasure to try a few shots of them, sitting around me, close enough to enable a few interesting takes. The above picture is one of them. It’s probably one of my best shot of a bird.

The following screenshot shows some metadata about this picture within Lightroom CC. The Bokeh effect comes from the f/2.8 aperture. Even at 200mm and ISO 180, the shutter speed was 1/4000! That was a sunny day for sure but my lens is of a great quality too.

Oh, I almost forgot, the bird was a [red-winged blackbird](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-winged%5Fblackbird?ref=numericcitizen.me).

![IMG_8030.PNG](https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d4510e05-0f0b-4c4f-b432-c18dfe8ade4e_1833x1280.png "IMG_8030.PNG")

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JF Martin aka **Numeric Citizen**

Previously published photos in the series can be found [on my main blog](https://numericcitizen.me/tag/photolegend/).