{"id":14130,"date":"2021-05-23T09:43:38","date_gmt":"2021-05-22T21:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/?p=14130"},"modified":"2021-05-23T09:44:43","modified_gmt":"2021-05-22T21:44:43","slug":"white-birds-on-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/archives\/14130","title":{"rendered":"White Birds on White"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Spoonbill-D85_5111-web.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Spoonbill-D85_5111-web.jpg?resize=960%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Photo of a K\u014dtuku ngutupapa\/Royal Spoonbill (Platalea regia)\" class=\"wp-image-14132\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Spoonbill-D85_5111-web.jpg?w=960&amp;ssl=1 960w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Spoonbill-D85_5111-web.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Spoonbill-D85_5111-web.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>K\u014dtuku ngutupapa\/Royal Spoonbill (<em>Platalea regia<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>A recent trip to the Hawkes Bay gave me an opportunity to photograph K\u014dtuku ngutupapa\/Royal Spoonbills at the Napier wetlands. A windy day with grey skies was perfect for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/galleries\/birds\/birds-on-white\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Birds on White<\/a> photography and white birds on white pushed the challenge up a notch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Spoonbill-D85_5121-web.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Spoonbill-D85_5121-web.jpg?resize=960%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Photo of a K\u014dtuku ngutupapa\/Royal Spoonbill (Platalea regia)\" class=\"wp-image-14133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Spoonbill-D85_5121-web.jpg?w=960&amp;ssl=1 960w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Spoonbill-D85_5121-web.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Spoonbill-D85_5121-web.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>K\u014dtuku ngutupapa\/Royal Spoonbill (<em>Platalea regia<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I have written about this previously in relation to the photo of a leucistic Piwakawaka\/Fantail as the final image in the post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/archives\/10274\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Another Feast of Fantails<\/a>. The important thing is setting a manual exposure value as automated exposure modes will underexpose the scene rendering greys rather than the required white.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Spoonbill-D85_5125-web.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Spoonbill-D85_5125-web.jpg?resize=960%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Photo of a K\u014dtuku ngutupapa\/Royal Spoonbill (Platalea regia)\" class=\"wp-image-14134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Spoonbill-D85_5125-web.jpg?w=960&amp;ssl=1 960w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Spoonbill-D85_5125-web.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Spoonbill-D85_5125-web.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>K\u014dtuku ngutupapa\/Royal Spoonbill (<em>Platalea regia<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This brief visit highlighted the benefit of some local knowledge as I have never photographed in this location before.  A quick web search revealed a link to a useful <a href=\"https:\/\/www.birdsnz.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Hawkes-Bay-Birding-Location-Guide.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hawkes Bay location guide on the BirdsNZ website<\/a>. This was a useful starting point but as we arrived I noticed a photographer with a Nikon 200-500mm lens about to leave in her car so asked for some advice. She told me where she had been photographing Spoonbills but that they had left. Suspecting that having left they may return  we headed to the described location. Before long one circled, buffeted by the wind, did 2 laps and then landed. This was all the opportunity needed for a series of flight images of a white bird on white.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Spoonbill-D85_5159-web.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Spoonbill-D85_5159-web.jpg?resize=960%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14135\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Spoonbill-D85_5159-web.jpg?w=960&amp;ssl=1 960w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Spoonbill-D85_5159-web.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Spoonbill-D85_5159-web.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>This image reminds me of Edin\u2019s winning image in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/archives\/1379\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">DPhoto Photographer of the Year competition 2014<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This final photo works only because the Spoonbill had turned its head to look down at me. Without the eye contact if would just be an unflattering view of the underside despite the interesting texture of the wings. It is similar in this regard to Edin\u2019s photo of a Cattle Egret in flight that won her the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/archives\/1379\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">DPhoto Photographer of the Year<\/a> competition in 2014. Her image features again in the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/magstore.nz\/collections\/latest-issues\/products\/d-photo-100-winter-2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">100th edition of DPhoto<\/a> along with some of her more recent work in an article looking back at past winners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Photos with Nikon D850 and Nikon 500mm f5.6PF lens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photographing white Royal Spoonbills in flight on a white background, Napier, New Zealand<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Photographing a white Royal Spoonbill in flight on a white background","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,29,17],"tags":[26,25,220,725,492,862,863,247,221,509,311,609,608,861,860],"class_list":["post-14130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-birds","category-new-zealand","category-tips","tag-bird-photography","tag-birds","tag-birds-in-flight","tag-birds-on-white","tag-edin-whitehead","tag-hawkes-bay","tag-napier","tag-new-zealand-bird","tag-nikon","tag-nikon-500mm-f5-6pf","tag-nikon-d850","tag-nikonnz","tag-nz","tag-royal-spoonbill","tag-spoonbill","entry","has-media"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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