Member Projects & Events including photo outings.

Check the PhotoZone Meeting educational events HERE. We have many educational events planned. All will take place after our meetings regularly scheduled on the third Sunday each month. Meetings are held at The Emerald Art Center, 500 Main street in Springfield. Meetings start at 1:00pm. Visitors are welcome. Please enter by the side door on 5th St. Special events usually start around 3:00pm. Note: the events page will open in a new tab.

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Greg Giesy - Ruby-Crowned Kinglets

Sharon and I were getting ready to leave to go downtown, on April 17th, to see Linda Devenow’s photo exhibit at the library. I got to our front deck when I noticed a small 4” bird, a ruby-crowned kinglet, in the neighbor’s shrub.

I got my camera but of course the bird was gone. I stood looking for it when a flock (12 to 18) of ruby-crowed kinglets flew into my large Japanese Maple. I had never seen more than one at a time. I started shooting.

Seventeen minutes of shooting with my Canon EOS R5 using a 2X converter on my 100-500mm lens (1000mm) at about 20’ away they were gone, and I had about 300 individual shots.

Two days later with about half the flock from before I took another 225 photos of the kinglets over 22 minutes in three different Japanese Maples eating aphids as fast as they could go.

Here are 18 of the best shots and some of the shots show the aphids they are eating.

Click HERE to view all 18 images.