Gerald Aichinger

So dramatic! I love it!

The bearded tit might be the most photogenic bird 🪶 in the world. And a lot of fun to photograph! 📷

Yessss! You got it! 😁

The one I thought about was James Bond: GoldenEye 🤩 🦎

Great idea! Not the one I had in mind though 😁

A geko with a beautiful golden eye

Trivia time: For what 1995 action movie could this little geko 🦎 have been the inspiration?

📷 Photographed on Corsica in 2024 on my Sony a7rIV

An European robin showing of its magnificent red face, neck and breast.

Mostly birds are very easily spooked, but this european robin 🪶 was completely unbothered. When I noticed it I was so close that I had to move a few steps away to take the photo 📷. A very kind and beautiful encounter.

Amazing!

Beautiful! I love the detail on the eye an beak. So many great birds in this world 🤩

Nuthatches are such posers 😁 I love it!

Great job to get the lighting right on this beautiful bird. I can never quite manage it with the dark and shiny coat. Especially with the bright background.

A headshot portrait of a female peacock.

Female peacocks 🪶 do not get enough love. Zoom in to see the intricate details in her feathers and like if you agree 😁 📷

An orange and white cat who is an exceptionally good girl right now.

I am so good and well behaved today. You could easily leave me alone with a whole stick of butter for example.

A Wheatear with their characteristic black stripe over the eye and a big in their beak sitting in a rock in front of a green background.

When I was at Sliabh Liag some months ago I saw these Wheatears 🪶 Got some nice photos 📷 of multiple specimen both male and female. When I edited the photos I was surprised to find that I hadn’t gotten a SINGLE ONE without at least one, sometimes three bugs in the beak. They must be amazing hunters!

The Irish coast has all the colors. A perfect place to feature a greyscale #bird 🪶 such a dramatic scenery with strong winds and steep cliffs. But the seagulls navigate it effortlessly. 📷

A small brown bird with a peculiarly curved and slim beak called a treecreeper. It is sitting in some mossy bark.

Got a picture of a tree creeper 🪶 while he is not - well - creeping right on the tree! Such an interesting beak shape. Perfect for snacking on little bugs under the bark.

A European robin looking into the camera longingly from behind some leaves.

Hello bird 🪶 feed. I’m back. Depicted below is me watching you all posting awesome photos while I’m in over my head with my new job. Thanks for keeping me inspired! Now let’s get this dusty camera back out 💪

A female blackbird 🪶 proudly presents….

A berry.

In bird culture this is considered a show of great wealth! 📷

European starlings are WILD! I underexpose my images when I take them 📷 to not blow out the highlights. So when I corrected the exposure afterwards it was a great surprise that the evening sun hit the feathers 🪶 just right on these proud birds.

First nice photo in weeks: This red kite with a mouse in their claws 🪶 📷
Did not see that when it was flying overhead. What a surprise!

Can you do #caturday on Bluesky? If so, have a picture of my other cat. Proud and strong FIP survivor who deserves everything forever for going through absolute hell for half a year ❤️
(Looks like this is cat content for now. Birds may resume when they allow it.)

An orange cat with great orange and green-yellow eyes looking gently into the camera. It looks soft and cuddly but would rather not be disturbed at this time because it has just eaten and wants to sleep for a bit now.

Hello world, yes: this is my cat and I love him very much. Also you can see the reflection of me and my living room in his eye.

New PFP day to celebrate Bluesky opening up. Somewhat counterintuitively photographing birds and animals does not in fact make you instantly good at photographing people. Taking selfportraits is a great exercise in selfreflection though. If you have a camera you should try it. 📷

I’ll definitely share it here when I find a good solution 👍

Yea, that sounds familiar. I really need to at least get all my photos off of the sd cards. Someday I’ll loose a ton of raws and then maybe I’ll learn 🙈

It’s just good practice honestly. But the amount of data goes insane! I use a α7rIV, so the uncompressed raws are 120mb 😱 someday I’ll just have to get a server or something to store all the photos. How do you manage all the data?

Thank you! It was a pretty lucky one, too. A reminder to just take the camera whenever possible. You never know what you may find.

You got it! Germanys largest bird of prey. This one I saw in the Black Forrest region, but they are very common in southwestern Germany.

Thank you! They are wonderful birds. Always a treat to see one so close in good light.

A red kite flying overhead in front of a clear blue sky.

Re-edited this bird 🪶 pic I took 📷 a few years ago. It was with my first camera and I just got my first decent lens. Still so happy with it (and glad that I keep all raws forever basically).