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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 […] Stuff I had lots of action with the foraging Cattle Egrets and the almost alway present Black Vultures down by the lake in the morning. And there was another dime-a-dozen spectacular sunset on Saturday afternoon. Several times I had a great silhouette almost lined up perfectly when the bird flew. 🙂 The pool was up […] Stuff It was cloudy all afternoon on Thursday. At 5:10pm I walked out on the pool deck, looked west, and saw a large bright opening below the clouds. “Hey Jim, I am gonna head down to the lake for a few; it looks as if something nice might develop. It did. Another dime-a-dozen evening was […] Stuff On Wednesday evening I enjoyed some more dime-a-dozen crane silhouette photography down by the lake and had lots of action on Thursday morning as well. That with a handsome Osprey on The Perch (but not for long!) and lots of foraging Cattle Egrets. I began adding images to the 5D Mark IV User’s Guide […] Stuff There was some nice action down at the lake early on Wednesday despite the clear skies and brisk wind from the west/northwest. I photographed the two species of vultures, a female Anhinga on The Perch, and lots of forage Cattle Egrets; beats nothing all to pieces. It is still cool in central Florida. […] Stuff It was cold again on Monday evening and when I woke on Tuesday morning the pool was a very chilly 67.8 degrees. By the time I got in the water it was up to a balmy 72. I swam 34 laps right after lunch and was planning on swimming another 32 laps before dinner […] Stuff It was a chilly 38 degrees at ILE yesterday morning and it never really warmed up a whole lot. I went down to the lake am and pm but there were no birds on The Perch and not much going on otherwise. ” I did a lot of work on the 5d Mark IV […] Stuff Sunday dawned clear and cold –48 degrees, with a strong northwest wind that made photography just about impossible. I got lots of work done on the 5D Mark IV User’s Guide and watched lots of UFC on TIVO and lots of NFL football. I swam my easy 3/4 mile with the pool down to […] |
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