Bird Photography In Your Own Backyard.

                                                      Photo By - Michael Priest
                                       Owner/Artist/Photographer at Oasis Photography.

Your Own Backyard.

     If you like many other Photographers are wanting to get really great Bird Photos but for many reasons are unable to get out into the field to capture all of these beautiful photos that you see people get of all the different kinds of birds, chin up you can get them right at home in your back yard. I have established a basic rule and that is never ever ever go out your door without a camera, the photo above was taken right outside my backdoor and I have a very short time to get my camera up to take this photo before this fellow flew away so all ways have a camera with you.

   
    There are ways to assure that there will be birds to photograph in your backyard and that is putting up feeders for them different birds like different kinds of food so do a little research and get to know the birds that are in your area and what kind of feed they like if you supply it they will come be consistent in feeding them and supply them with places to build nests, put up some bird houses for the kinds of birds you are trying to attract keeping them away from the house but easily seen from your home. Birds like people need a water source as well so supply them with fresh clean water a birdbath is a great idea for any backyard.

     Your backyard is a great place for not only bird photography, there are many forms of photography from Butterfly, Insects, Macro, Flowers, you will find all different things to photograph without leaving the confines of your very own backyard.  

What Photography Means To Me.

What Photography Means To Me - By Michael Priest.


Merriam Websters defines Photography As - the Art, Process or Job of taking Pictures with a Camera. In that definition Photography is and foremost an Art, so if we look up the definition of Art in Merriam Webster we get this Art is something created with ones Imagination and or Skill that is beautiful or expresses important ideas and or feelings. I think that Merriam Webster has hit the definition right on the head. Photography in its basic sense to me other than leaning how your camera works as so forth is this use your Imagination, think of what you want to capture, or what you feel is beautiful in your eyes, do not worry about what others are going to say about your photos if you love them that is really all that matters, and if your goal is to express emotions and cause the viewer to feel emotion then you need to develop the skill of looking for things that stir up emotions in you and try to capture that in your photo. The Camera is a tool to do these things, with different cameras out all the time it is impossible to to keep up with the Jones's to have the best Camera money can buy and it is not that big of a deal the best Camera is the one you have, learn to use it to the best of your ability. Today there are a number of DSLR Cameras that are very inexpensive to get into and I am only suggesting that you get one for reasons of helping you to imagine an image and getting out to capture what you want, there are so many lenses for different things and it is great to have them as part of your tool box of tricks to use but don't let that stop you from shooting with whatever camera you have.