This young Great Blue Heron has just caught an afternoon snack at the Leon Provencher marsh near Quebec City.

For a change, I decided to try out a technique called digiscopy, photography using a spotting scope as the primary lens.

For this shot, I used a Kowa TSN 884 Prominar ED spotting scope with a TSN PZ 680-1000mm f7.7-11.4 lens adapter married to my Canon 40D camera mounted on a tripod.

The shot was taken at 680mm (not including the 40D’s camera crop factor) at about f7.7 @ ISO 400. It was slightly cropped because I required to format it for an 8.5 x 11 presentation.

Thanks to my employer at Quebec City’s boutique, Le Naturaliste, who let me take the equipment out for a test drive.

Cheers,

Mike