Photo by Rene Diaz
Tropical Kingbird in Izamal, Yucatan, Mexico 4Dec2025
It’s a perfect bright sunny day on Dec. 4, 2025, in Yucatan, Mexico, and we are climbing up and down a gigantic Mayan pyramid with my brand new Lumix G9 Mark II camera, with a huge telephoto lens. At the base of the pyramid, we are surrounded by lush rainforest, and my sister says, “Look at that beautiful yellow bird looking right at us!” It was far away, about 50 yards, I could barely see it with my naked eye, but my trusty, Leica 100-400 F4.0-6.3 telephoto lens captured it beautifully. My name is Oscar Rene Diaz, my handle on twitter -X.com is @judgediaz; my ON1 plus name is: judgediaz@icloud.com. I also have a photo website: www.renediazphoto.com.
Post processing notes:
Camera and Settings: Panasonic Lumix DCG9M2; Image @ 236 mm (Lens: LEICA DG 100-400/F4.0-6.3) @ ISO 640; 1/500; f/5.3; EV-0. This Tropical Kingbird was far away, and was tiny in the photo, so I had to close crop it, and lost a lot of my original 25 MegaPixel resolution, so I had to use the ON1 Photo RAW Max 2026 Resize AI to enlarge it, and regain resolution, which I then combined with No-Noise AI and Tack Sharp AI to render this beautiful image. I love ON1 Photo RAW MAX 2026, I could not do this any other software.Exif information:
| Copyright: | RENE DIAZ |
| Camera: | DC-G9M2 |
| Aperture: | f/5.3 |
| Focal Length: | 236mm |
| ISO: | 640 |
| Shutter Speed: | 1/500 sec. |
| Created: | December 4, 2025 12:38:14 |