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Five Cheap, Small Group IPTs: Gatorland and DeSoto. I Go With One. Always. Why Cheap? Today, there is a proliferation of bird photography workshops , often by folks whose only qualification is owning a camera body. I am pretty well off financially but I would love to see folks join me, enjoy the best nature […] Stuff We were hoping that Saturday morning on the spoonbill boat would be as great as Friday morning had been. We actually did better in the pre-dawn with blurs but after a good start, the spoonbills disappointed. And the pelicans were not much better. We did very well with flight on both species of vultures […] Stuff We did well on the Wood Storks on Thursday afternoon. We had the best morning of the year with the Roseate Spoonbills on the first day of the second Spoonbill IPT. The afternoon looked bleak with strong east winds and bright sun, but at about 4:30pm the wind turned around to the west as […] Stuff We left at 5:36am on Thursday morning and made it to Gatorland just before 7am. We had some very good chances for the first 90 minutes. Once it got really sunny we concentrated on birds in flight. Jake Levin of Montreal joined us to hang out. As I type, we are on the way […] Stuff When I downloaded my images from Tuesday morning I learned that I forgot to change my high Kelvin WB back to AWB. While you can always change the WB during the RAW conversion shooting all morning at K7690 can be problematic as most of the images look over-saturated/over-exposed during the review and sharpness is […] Stuff We had a superb morning of flight photography on the spoonbill boat on Tuesday February 20, 2018. Again not a zillion spoonbills, but skies full of Brown Pelicans hovering over the mangroves, some with huge mouthfuls of nesting materials. Along with both species of vultures, hundreds of Fish Crows, some Great and Snowy Egrets, […] Stuff Four of us were having an excellent morning on the spoonbill boat when a new client, a very sweet man from DC, tripped on his tripod and wound up in two feet of saltwater with his D850 and a rented 200-500. He was a really good sport. After the camera dried out, it was […] Stuff In the morning I was down at the lake with my new 600mm f/4 and the D5. I had a few good opportunities on flying Great Egrets so I hand held it out the window with some success. Then it was my postural restoration exercises followed by my fourth half mile plus swim in […] Stuff We made it safely through thick fog to Gatorland on Saturday morning. As the sun did not break through until about 9:30am, we enjoyed a long shooting session with lots of excellent flight photography. The new Gatorland Photographer’s Pass program is vastly improved. You can check out the details and the improvements by clicking […] Stuff Yesterday was a particularly great day all around. In the morning, we found two crane nests with eggs. Then, about 20 Sandhill Cranes flew in at about 7:30am. And a gorgeous Great Blue Heron in breeding plumage with ultramarine lores was on our perch in the morning and then again at sunset. All of […] Stuff We had time on Thursday morning for a short visit with the beach-nesting boobies along the south shore of Cayman Brac before our flights. And we did well. As a last second bonus, several White-tailed Tropicbirds flew right over us. All in all it was a great trip. Lots more photos and lessons coming […] Stuff Well, we thought that Tuesday morning was bad, but Wednesday was worse. The wind was practically lifting us off the cliff and there were very few birds in flight. I created only a few Brown Booby images and deleted them all. I did keep a very few landscape photos. The afternoon was great. I […] Stuff The last time that I asked for an image title the group as a whole pretty much came up empty. Put your thinking caps on and see what you can come up with for today’s unusually lovely and graceful featured image. Tuesday morning was the worst of the trip so far. It was […] Early Spring Photo Opportunities at ILE BIRDS AS ART first-ever Master Classes Master Class Session 1. Two Full and two Half Days/Friday afternoon, March 16 through lunch on Monday, March 19, 2018: course fee: $1,999. Limit: 4/openings:3 Master Class Session 2. Two Full and two Half Days/Friday afternoon, March 30 through lunch […] Stuff The morning started off slowly with the promise of lots of clouds but the blue sky and sun came too quickly. Rather than packing it in early, we stuck it out and had enjoyed some great flight photography with unexpectedly excellent results. I am in the process of learning a ton about the automatic […] Stuff We got to the limestone cliffs early and had some great flight action for the first 45 minutes. With the clear blue skies we decided to try for the West Indian Whistling Ducks but they were too far away. So we called it a morning and I decided to go with our guide for […] A Comparison of the Canon 100-400 II L IS Lens and the Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 200-500mm f/5.6E ED VR LensStuff We had another great morning with the Brown Boobies. We were very careful on the jagged limestone cliffs … Tired of the heat and the bright sun we delayed our afternoon outing till 4:30pm. As I walked to the car it was drizzling. And there were big lovely clouds. We had our best afternoon […] Stuff We had a very successful morning on Cayman Brac climbing right to the edge of the jagged limestone cliffs for flight photography. The why of that is explained below. We were ready for another fabulous afternoon but the booby with the big chick sat in a bush for two hours and only the male […] Stuff All in all we had a great first day on Cayman Brac. Photography was difficult. We traversed jagged limestone cliffs with treacherous footing. It was so windy when I created today’s featured image that I was lucky to get one centered in the frame. The coast ran east/west so getting on perfect sun angle […] Stuff After waking at 2:55am on Wednesday– I had the alarm set for 3:45am — I made it out of the house only six minutes late … We were delayed slightly when I could not find my favorite and only belt … I was at the gate in Orlando early. I got to Miami early […] |
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