Your Call?
Which of today’s three featured WHIB images do you like best? Why? Which background color do you prefer, the dark green or the light yellow? Which raised wing photo is the strongest, #2 or #3? Why? Each and every comment is greatly appreciated.
In the Last Blog Post
In the last blog […]
Your Call?
Which of today’s two featured AWPE images do you like best? Why?
In the Last Blog Post
In the last blog post, Three Very Good Days at Stick Marsh & A Big Editing Tip, here, my favorite image was Image #1, Incoming Roseate Spoonbill in early morning light, because of the sweet […]
Your Calls
Which are the two strongest images? Which are the two weakest images? Why did you make those choices?
The Last Blog Post The times they are a’ changing …
In the last blog post, Important Rerun: Field Etiquette for Nature Photographers, here, I was a surprised that only a single reader, David Policansky […]
What’s Up?
Great news. The Red-shouldered Hawk was back on The Perch II on Friday morning and after 15 minutes of intense concentration, I nailed a fabulous takeoff sequence. The bird returned to the same perch and I figured that I had the technique down pat. After ten minutes I blinked and missed the bird’s […]
Just for the Record
Both Homer 2026 IPTS are nearly sold out via personal invitation by e-mail despite the fact that they have not been formerly announced. If you are seriously interested in joining me, please get in touch via e-mail immediately (or sooner).
What’s Up?
On Wednesday morning Anita North and I headed […]
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Your Call
Please take a moment and list your five favorite images in no particular order and let us know what you liked about each of your favorites. I will share my thoughts with you in the next post (although the task is quite a difficult one he said modestly). After you have read the […]
In the Previous Blog Post …
In the previous blog post, Why Photograph Common Birds? Why No Chance?, here, I asked the following questions:
1- Which is the stronger image? Why did you make your choice?
2- Which sky color do you prefer, the slightly blue sky in Image #1 or the grayer sky […]
Questions for You
1- Which is the stronger image? Why did you make your choice?
2- Which sky color do you prefer, the slightly blue sky in Image #1 or the grayer sky in Image #2?
3- What are the two main reasons that I had zero chance of creating a sharp, pleasing take-off shot […]
What’s Up?
If you like the inside scoop on a Canon 600mm f/4L IS II lens that I will be listing here soon, please get in touch via e-mail.
I’ve been enjoying some fine morning bird photography here at ILE with the vultures, Red-Shouldered Hawks, a new Sandhill Crane family, and with Cattle Egrets. The […]
My Call
My two favorites from the last blog post were #4, Bald Eagle tight flight, and #1, Grove of earthquake drowned trees — vertical pan blur.. Number 3 (Bald Eagle adult turning in flight against white sky) and number 5 (Glaucous-winged Gull winter adult taking flight) were not bad either. I was not a […]
The Last Blog Post
In the last blog post, Homer — the Last Day: Typically Atypical here, my three favorite images in order with the strongest first are as follows:
First — Image #5: Bald Eagle in flight just above dead earthquake-drowned tree background. I guess that I am a sucker for the flat flight/747/down […]
Your Call
In today’s post, I share ten of my favorite images made on the last day of the second 2025 Homer IPT. Like our nine previous sessions on the boat, it offered a wide variety of situations, backgrounds, light, weather, and winds (or the lack thereof). The great beauty of the trip was that […]
Your Call?
Which near midair collision image do you feel is the strongest, Image #2, the 3X2 version, or Image #3, the square crop? Why did you make your choice?
The Last Blog Post
In the Top Ten Mega-Tuesday Adult Bald Eagles blog post here, my favorite of the ten all very excellent images was […]
Your Call
In today’s post, I share ten of my favorite images from the most amazing day (so far) of the 2025 Homer IPTs. All were made with the incredible Sony 300mm f/2.8 GM/a-i ii combo. Be so kind as to leave a comment noting your two favorite images as well as the two weakest […]
Your Call
In today’s post, I share one of my favorite images from each of our first four days of the first 2025 Homer IPT. All were made with the incredible Sony 300mm f/2.8 GM/a-i ii combo. I have yet to even think about adding a teleconverter. I had twenty favorites from Day 2 🙂 […]
Your Call?
Which two images of today’s six featured images do you like best? Why?
In a Previous Blog Post
Thanks to the many who left comments at The Sony 400mm f/2.8 GM Lens & DeSoto’s North Beach blog post here. Several folks liked the scratching GBH best, but the practically monotoned Snowy Plover image, […]
Helen Hays and her ubiquitous smile in the doorway of the Banding Room on GGI wearing a flowered hat designed to keep the sharp beaks of the protective Common Terns from opening up her scalp. August 3, 2014.
Helen Hays
I was saddened to learn yesterday of the recent death of […]
Your Call?
Which two images do you like best? Why?
What’s Up?
Multiple IPT veterans Steve and Elisabeth Shore joined Anita North and me on Tuesday for the drive from Anchorage down to Homer, AK. We arrived at Land’s End Resort on the Homer Spit at 3:30pm and checked into our rooms. We did a […]
Your Call?
Which of today’s five featured Vasili Chernishof Canon EOS R1 images do you like best? Why? (Be sure to click on each image to view the larger, sharper high res version.)
What’s Up?
With the handwriting on the wall and the Eagles up 17-0 in the second quarter, I opted to hit the […]
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