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Stuff It is Thursday morning 4 JAN 2018 as I begin to type. Tuesday afternoon in central Florida was cold and rainy and windy. My nonstop flight to PHX was long for whatever reason, the plane seemed as cold as it had been in Orlando. I picked up my rental car and made it to […] Stuff I woke at 3am and started packing — planned to leave at 2:00pm for my 5:50pm flight to Phoenix. Was ten minutes late in leaving. Jim dropped me off as usual and I am putting the finishing touches on this blog post at the gate. I did think about taking a swim but didn’t. […] Stuff I was hoping for clouds so that I could finish my micro-adjusting; with long effective focal lengths I work outdoors with the lights. It was very cloudy to start but in the middle of the two and one-half hour session the sun was peeking in and out so I set up a tripod with […] Happy 2018 Jim Litzenberg, Jennifer Morris, and I hope that each and every one of you and your friends and family you has a great 2018 filled with peace, love, accomplishment, success, travel, wonderful images, and good health. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts for a great 2017; without the support we […] Stuff Saturday started out looking like another gray day but before I knew it the sun was out. I headed to the lake at 8:30am. About a dozen times I had a vulture doing a perfect full double wing stretch taking in the morning sun. And a dozen times I screwed up by taking too […] Stuff From dawn to dusk, Friday was about the grayest day I can every remember in Florida. It was cloudy dark from 7:30am to 5:30pm. I never got down to the lake. I spent most of the day doing final edits on several recent To Transfer folders to make some space on my hard drive […] Stuff It was a beautiful, still, clear morning on Thursday but there were no birds on the perches. And few elsewhere. Using my hand held 400 DO II/1.4X III/1DX II I had some good flight chances with both Black and Turkey Vultures while working out of the car, and then again when I took my […] Phoenix Anyone? I am flying to Phoenix, AZ next Tuesday and am looking for a place to stay for nine nights (arrive 2 JAN, depart 12 JAN) in exchange for bird photography and Photoshop lessons. If you know any of the good spots, I would love to hear from you as well. I am especially […] Click on the logo-link above to check out 58 amazing deals on a great variety of photographic accessories. Good only till 11:59PM EST tonight. Stuff There was not much going on at the lake on Wednesday morning but I did make some nice images of both a Great Egret and a Great Blue […] Stuff As most of you know, I finally put the icing on the 5D Mark IV User’s Guide on Tuesday. Even that took longer than I had expected. You can order a copy here or learn more below. It sure was a lot of work. 🙂 Remember: if your purchase a 5D IV now using […] Stuff I am finally done. It feels good. It is a bummer that I am such a perfectionist! Right now I am headed into the pool. The 5D Mark IV User’s Guide The 5D Mark IV User’s Guide $48.00. Order yours here now. Regular readers of the BAA blog know that I […] Stuff I spent most of the day on Monday finishing up the 5D Mark IV User’s Guide. It should be in the BAA Online Store some time this morning; you will receive a short notice. It was another cloudy/foggy morning and again I took a walk on a long pier with my 400 DO II/1.4X […] Stuff It was cloudy/foggy in the early am so I kept working on the 5D IV Guide but at 8:15 I looked out the window and saw that it was sunny. I ran down to the lake and wound up taking a mile plus walk with my 400 DO II, the 1.4X III, and a […] Stuff I woke early on Saturday and met photographer/friend Clemens van der Werf at lake Blue Cypress to try out his new boat. It was great for two photographers. Though the sunrise colors were not great and though we were a bit late getting started, it turned out to be a perfect day for lake-scape […] Stuff On Friday morning I went down to the lake in thick fog and wound up getting stuck in the mud … That was at about 9am. I was towed out by the AAA by 11:30. I actually loved every minute of it. Oh, I forget, because I was more than 50 feet off the […] Stuff Thursday morning was so foggy that I never headed down to the lake. And the sunset was pretty much a fizzle. And so it goes. I swam my slow 3/4 mile in a positively toasty pool in the late afternoon. Another cold front is supposed to be on its way. 🙂 Right now it […] Stuff Wednesday morning down by the lake was not bad. Best of all was a Red-shouldered Hawk on the tall skinny perch that we put up about 60 yards north of The Perch. And I did some neat video of a preening, displaying Boat-tailed Grackle. The evening was a total bust — the western sky […] Stuff The 5D Mark IV User’s Guide is pretty much complete. I still have two sticky issues to deal with, and I need to review several edits. If you are entitled to a free copy and would like to review the 12/19 draft, please see the free 5D Mark IV User’s Guide offer below the […] Stuff As is becoming a habit I went down to the lake twice on Monday. In the morning I created some nice foggy tree images, some (lousy) too-slow-a-shutter-speed Black Vulture flight images, and, once the sun came out, some pretty bad Turkey Vulture atop a too-tall dead cabbage palm stump images. In the afternoon I […] Stuff I’ve been having fun getting down to the lake in the morning for about an hour or so and then again just before sunset. Yesterday was the same. Just head portraits of Black Vultures in the am, and another smashing sunset in the evening, the fourth in a row. Unlike Saturday, I had some […] |
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