Seeing this colorful cardinal splashing about in the birdbath brightened my day, so I’m passing along these pictures with the hopes that he brightens your day too!
A Splash Of Color
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Backyard Bird Nerd 
Great captures Kathy! 🙂
Thanks. 🙂
Gorgeous! I’m keeping my fingers crossed you can capture a female cardinal on the bird bath as well to share. The cardinal is one of my favorites. 🙂
I shall be on the lookout for the female. 🙂
Kathy, Do you shoot in “auto” setting, or do you manually adjust? If so, which settings? I love your photography so much that I bought the same camera! Now I have to learn to use it! 🙂
I manually adjust. I tend to keep my white balance on cloudy (even when it’s sunny), my exposure at -1/3, and use the fastest shutter speed and the widest aperture I can based on the lighting. When you first start playing with it, you might want to just use the AV setting and choose the widest aperture (lowest number) you can.
I hope you love your new camera as much as I have…let me know if you get any fun shots!
I love the rich colours of your cardinals, we don’t see them down under, thanks for sharing!
You are most welcome. 🙂
Impossible to be down with a cardinal around, especially when he is cavorting in the bird bath! Love how you captured the water droplets in the air.
Whenever I see a bird splashing about in the birdbath I can’t help but smile. They seem to enjoy it so much
This handsome looks so happy! I love it ❤ 🙂