Final Group of Images from my Recent Wildlife Photography Weekend to the Eastern Shore of Virginia

Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge is known for its wild ponies.  They roam freely and move around the NWR
to find fresh grass.  This area was fully under water until last year.  (click to enlarge)
Nikon D810 with the Tamron 150-600mm lens that I had rented.

Here are the last images I will post from my recent wildlife weekend in Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge on Virginia's Eastern Shore. I have additional ones that could go out, but these are enough for you to get the idea of Chincoteague and the wildlife weekend.

Tundra swans being vigilant for predators. (click to enlarge)

Is the photographer a danger? (click to enlarge)

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Canada geese (click to enlarge)

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Away with you!  Interloper! (click to enlarge)

End of day 1 at 600mm (click to enlarge)

Eyeballing potential prey? (click to enlarge)

End of Day 2 (click to enlarge)

Winter dunes in Cape Charles, Eastern Shore of Virginia (click to enlarge)

Cotton field just before harvest, near Cape Charles, Virginia (click to enlarge)

Cotton field just before harvest, near Cape Charles, Virginia (click to enlarge)

End of the weekend (click to enlarge)

Let me reiterate that I was not at all happy with the rental Tamron 150-600mm lens (the brand new version).  I called Borrowlenses.com and advised them of my testing, my findings in eliminating various causes of inconsistent focus and lack of fine detail.  Again, this is not a condemnation of Tamron as I might have just received a singular sub-par copy of this particular lens, or my standards just might be too high!  I will say the lens had a very good build quality, felt good in my hands and had a nice appearance.  I considered buying one of these lenses when first released and reviewed, but I've changed my mind.  I'll next look at the new Sigma 150-600mm Art lens that was just released and see how that performs in my next wildlife outing.

In the above series of images, the wildlife images were made with the Tamron but the other images, except the 600mm sunset, were made with Nikon lenses.  I can easily see a difference between these and the images made with the Tamron lens in sharpness and detail in the originals.

I had to put most of the images made with the Tamron lens through Topaz Detail 3 to try to bring out the detail in the ones that were in focus.

Thanks for looking.  Enjoy!

Dennis Mook

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