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Auto Tone and Auto Color Tips. Is There Any Reason to Prefer H over V?

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The hernia repair is healing nicely and the shoulder is doing quite well. But … Your get well wishes have been appreciated. I have been resting and napping a lot and continue to watch lots of NBA and NHL playoff games.

BIRDS AS ART

BIRDS AS ART is registered in the U.S. Patent […]

Never Settle When the Sun's Out ... D850 Image Files. What Fish? And a Duck Behavior Lesson for Me!

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I have been feeling well and sleeping great. The hernia repair is healing nicely and the shoulder is doing quite well. Your get well wishes are appreciated. I have been resting and napping a lot and watching lots of NBA and NHL playoff games.

BIRDS AS ART

BIRDS AS ART is registered in […]

The Tale of the Scale. On Cheese. More on Nikon and Canon at 1200mm. And a Duck Behavior Quiz ...

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I am feeling and sleeping well. The hernia repair is healing nicely and the shoulder is doing as well as can be expected: pretty darned good. All of your get well wishes are helping. So thanks. 🙂

The Tale of the Scale

For the past few years my weight has fluctuated between 183 […]

Why 600mm for Bird Photography? Teleconverter Strategies in the Field. And First Winter Shorebird (Dunlin) Lessons

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I was glad to learn that Ken Cook signed up for the San Diego IPT with the Dancing Grebes Add-on Morning. This blog post took a bit more than three hours to prepare.

As I mentioned in the last blog post, I am blessed in countless ways by friends old and new. Next […]

Lots of Stuff : Friends. The Nikon AF Fine-tune e-Guide. The Nikon Dummy Quiz Answer. And An Important Nikon Camera Body Question

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Beginning tomorrow the BAA Blog will be going to every other day.

The Streak

Today makes two hundred seventy-four days in a row with a new educational blog post! This one took more than minutes to prepare. This streak is over 🙂

Patrick and Robin Sparkman

This is a shout-out to my good […]

Sometimes Everything Falls Into Place. And Sometimes Everything Falls Into Place Miraculously ...

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Jim Dolgin and I headed to Titusville early as planned and were rewarded with a mega-sunrise. We were back at the Kissimmee hotel by 10:15. I took a nice nap and was home at 1pm in time to watch LeBron James lead the Cleveland Cavaliers a hard fought game seven win over the Indiana […]

The Best That I Can Do ...

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John Dupps and Jim Dolgin and I spent Saturday morning at Gatorland as planned. 2018 has been the worst year in recent memory for the rookery; Saturday morning yielded few good opportunities other than some early morning Cattle Egret head portraits, a bit of Wood Stork with nesting material flight photography, and a young […]

An Often Forgotten Post-Processing Step ...

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John Dupps and Jim Dolgin enjoyed two great photo sessions at Gatorland on Friday; we had to work hard for our chances but both students learned a ton. Dinner at El Tapatio was fabulous as usual. I gotta hit the sack.

Thanks to all who took a shot at the Nikon Dummy quiz […]

The Nikon Dummy Quiz. Me Being the Nikon Dummy ...

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I did manage to to get another two hours of sleep on Wednesday evening. John Dupps and I were first into Gatorland on Thursday morning. We had some spiffy Cattle Egrets but wound up spending most of the morning photographing small Snowy Egret chicks. We were the first ever to enjoy a late-stay on […]

Varying Your Varying You Compositions; Flipper or No Flipper? And EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) Tapping

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I saw Dr. Howard early on Wednesday morning and told him about the blowtorch-like pain that had been keeping my up on Monday and Tuesday nights, that pain centered below and to my left of the incision. Good friend Doctor Anita North (retired neurosurgeon) felt that the pain was likely nerve […]

The 2019 San Diego IPT and the Dancing Grebe Add-On Morning

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As I worked on the two new composite cards for the 2019 San Diego IPT I could not help but think about the fact that even if you took the spectacular breeding plumage Pacific race Brown Pelicans completely out of the picture that San Diego would still be a great place to photograph in […]

Super San Diego AF Tip for Canon and Nikon

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I slept pretty well for almost ten hours on Sunday night. The hernia repair felt pretty good when I woke but as I got dressed to go to town it began to hurt quite a bit … Dr. Holmes thought that they incision was healing well. So did I. After that appointment I had […]

Head Angle Ramifications and a Huge Revelatory Eye Brightness Question ...

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I accidentally hit Publish on this post while working on it on Sunday afternoon. I did take it down almost immediateley but some folks got the notice … All can enjoy it now. 🙂

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I did not sleep too well on Saturday night while enjoying some sharp pain as the surgical site […]

Exposing to the Washed Out Right ...

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Today makes two hundred sixty-eight days in a row with a new educational blog post! This one took several hours to prepare including the time spent on the all-new San Diego IPT card. With all of my upcoming free time (or not…), the plan right now is to try to break the […]

Picking a Keeper: 5001 Versus 5013. Rain Gear Help Needed.

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I am using Tramadol for pain relief. Once the powerful stuff in me that was left over from the surgery began to wear off, I have had a bit of pain, especially when standing up or sitting down (as is expected from inguinal hernia surgery). I slept only about 3 or four hours on […]

Another Image Within An Image Lesson. Some Used Gear Comments. And the Lowest Priced Ever Canon 600mm II.

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Thursday, April 19, 2918, 10:15am: I began working on this blog post on the way to Lake Wales Hospital. They called and asked if I could come an hour earlier. Heck, that meant an hour less of not eating 🙂

12:10pm: Chatted with Dr. Howard and the anesthesiologist.

12:25pm: Anesthesia started. Goodbye!

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Always in a Hurry ... Dark-siders: Please Do Not Take This Personally.

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I had some nasty pain from my hernia while we were photographing at St. Pete Beach on the last afternoon of the DeSoto IPT. I was able to arrange to see Dr. Howard at 10am on Wednesday. The IPT group enjoyed a great thank you dinner at Good Times Continental Restaurant on Tierra Verde […]

Spring Shorebird Plumage Lessons Part II

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On Monday afternoon we almost left the lagoon right after we got there as there was not much around. But we persisted and were rewarded with some great stuff on Marbled Godwit, Laughing Gull, and White Ibis. And Norm Steffen got a really neat image of a Black-bellied Plover tugging on a very long […]

What the Heck Bird is This?

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We were rained out on Sunday afternoon so we enjoyed a Photoshop session during which everyone picked their favorite Red Knot image from Sunday morning and optimized it. I was available for questions, guidance, and comments. The expected Northwest winds on Monday morning made photography very difficult but everyone persevered and came up with […]