No Kidding: 838 Images in 17 Minutes and 26 Seconds … And Speed Kills! « Arthur Morris/BIRDS AS ART

No Kidding: 838 Images in 17 Minutes and 26 Seconds ... And Speed Kills!

838 Images in 17 Minutes and 26 Seconds …

The last segment of my Peruvian adventure has provided some excellent photography, mostly with perched hummingbirds. Things peaked today on the morning of Sunday, November 27, 2016 when I created 838 images in 17 minutes and 26 seconds. All of the same bird–Marvelous Spatuletail–on the same perch. It is a very rare bird and good photographs of this species are rare at best. With limited internet access here at Abra Patricia Owlet Lodge, I have been unable to find out about how many pairs there are of this Peruvian endemic. If you know or can find out, please do share. Oh, by the way: I kept 257 of the 838 images on the first round of editing. Photos after I get home.

I fly back to Lima tomorrow and plan on spending Tuesday looking for some tame Inca Terns with a local guide. I fly back to Santiago, Chile on Wednesday 30 NOV to meet my 2-Week Land-based Falklands IPT group. I will be staying an extra week in the Falklands and finally getting home late on 25 DEC. Note: two years out, it looks as if four of the eight slots on the 2018/2019 Cheap Land-based Falklands IPT are filled … And best of all, the Galapagos Photo Expedition is nearly sold out. Desperately seeking a few more folks for Japan and San Diego. Please e-mail if you are seriously interested.

Today I am feeling as good as I have felt since my gall bladder surgery on Thursday October 6, 2016. As my late Dad often said, “Who’d a thunk it?”

later and much love, artie

ps: I should have halfway decent internet access for the next few days at least.

Speed Kills

In the low light, high ISO situation, I will give you six guesses as to which camera body I used to photograph the spatuletail. I used the 500 II with the 1.4X III TC.

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