{"id":119907,"date":"2024-01-18T05:06:57","date_gmt":"2024-01-18T12:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=119907"},"modified":"2026-02-04T06:12:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T12:12:01","slug":"male-belted-kingfisher-in-my-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2024\/01\/18\/male-belted-kingfisher-in-my-memories\/","title":{"rendered":"Male Belted Kingfisher In My Memories"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning, I’m sharing a male Belted Kingfisher photo that I took one year ago today. I was photographing ducks at one of my local ponds when he flew in.<\/p>\n

\"MaleMale Belted Kingfisher on a sunny January morning \u2013 Nikon D500, f7.1, 1\/1250, ISO 500, +2.0 EV, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

The kingfisher perched on a tree that used to hang over the pond. I say ‘used to’ because last year, that gorgeous old tree was chopped down by the city. I don’t know why; it looked healthy to me, but I am not an arborist, and there could have been issues with the tree. Thankfully, the city did replace the trees they cut down with new ones.<\/p>\n

I adore kingfishers, partly because of their appearance, their spunky attitudes, and because they are challenging to photograph.<\/p>\n

When I was down at this pond three days ago, I had a female Belted Kingfisher<\/span><\/a> fly by. She reminded me that I had never shared this male kingfisher photo I took and edited one year ago today. In my mind I could ‘see’ that kingfisher file in a folder on my computer as the female kingfisher flew off.<\/p>\n

\"Folder<\/a>Folder for my galleries Screenshot 2024-01-18<\/span><\/p>\n

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I have a folder on one of my external hard drives named ‘4 my galleries’. It isn’t just for my galleries, though. I also use it to store photos I’ve edited that I plan on or might want to share here on my site. This morning, that folder had 868 photo files in it.<\/p>\n

You can see why I never run out of photos to share here.<\/p>\n

Now that I’ve added this image to my photo galleries and used it here, it will be deleted from this folder but copied over to a separate ‘Belted Kingfisher’ gallery folder. It will also be copied to a folder I call ‘blog-posted’, which I use to keep track of what I have shared in my daily posts. All the images in my folders are alphabetized by species or location to make it easy for me to locate them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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I have excellent memory recall, which includes what I see. That is how I ‘saw’ this kingfisher photo in the folder in my mind when the female kingfisher was in view. This kingfisher image is in the middle of the bottom row.<\/p>\n

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Anyhow, I thought including this screenshot might be of interest to part of my photo storage\/filing system for other photographers. My original image files are stored by year, date, and location on external drives. I don’t use a photo file organizing program, I use my memory.<\/p>\n

I never, ever store original files on my computer hard drive. It is too easy to lose them completely that way if a computer has a catastrophic failure and dies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Life is<\/em> good.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

Click here<\/span><\/a> to see more of my Belted Kingfisher photos plus facts and information about this species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This morning, I’m sharing a male Belted Kingfisher photo that I took one year ago today. I was photographing ducks at one of my local ponds when he flew in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":119904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[500,27,709,26],"tags":[4004,2432,4897,4934,4933,8218,4062,3008,4378,10698,4104,1984,4018,5758,4427,8018,373],"class_list":["post-119907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-belted-kingfishers","category-avian","category-salt-lake-county-utah","category-utah","tag-adult","tag-belted-kingfisher","tag-branch","tag-kingfisher","tag-kingfishers","tag-leaf-buds","tag-male","tag-megaceryle-alcyon","tag-morning","tag-park","tag-perched","tag-pond","tag-sky","tag-sunny","tag-tree","tag-urban","tag-winter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t