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Stuff Jim picked me up at Orlando Airport just after 6pm on Wednesday evening after my flights from Edinburgh and then Newark. We got home at 8pm and I was soon asleep. I got up at two, three, four, and five and felt like a zombie for most of Thursday — jet lag city! I […] Stuff The 2017 UK Puffins and Gannets IPT ended with love, hugs, thanks, and kisses all around. There is nothing better than having a group of 100% Happy Campers. Though my good weather karma was at an all time low with one and one half missed landings and two cancelled boat trips in eight days, […] Stuff We had hopes of doing a second gannet boat trip on Tuesday morning but when we spoke to Captain Gordon on Monday evening he said that it would be too nasty to sail, that the big swells, a result of the northeast winds, would still be with us. Most everyone but me slept late. […] Stuff We lucked out on weather again on Sunday enjoying two great sessions, the first on Staple Island in the morning and then another on Inner Farnes where I made this image in the afternoon. On Monday and now again on Tuesday we were bitten by a nor’easter: our Monday gannet boat trip and our […] Stuff After a sunny Saturday the photography weather returned to perfect: completely cloudy bright skies with the best ever Black-legged Kittiwake nest with a fluffy white 2 1/2 week old chick in the nest with mom and a west wind in the afternoon. A baby puffin swimming in the same small pond where I had […] Stuff After three perfect photography days my weather karma got too good. We were somewhat cursed with clear blue skies and uncooperative wind directions, but the day was saved when I arranged for a late stay on Farnes with one of the captains. We wound up enjoying an extra 90 minutes of puffins and Razorbills […] Stuff It’s nice when you make a plan and it works perfectly down to the very last detail. Based on the weather forecast, I switched our gannet boat trip from Thursday to Friday. As noted previously, Thursday afternoon was fantastic to say the least. And our gannet boat trip, with clouds thank you very much, […] Stuff As noted here previously, it was drizzling pretty hard on Thursday morning and even worse, the forecast was for two full days of rain — Thursday and Friday. After being unable to land on anywhere on Tuesday, the entire group was completely understanding — bad weather happens. We were critiquing the participants’ images when […] Stuff On Wednesday, July 5, the IPT group enjoyed a perfect day for bird photography in Northumberland, UK. We had cloudy bright skies, dozens of tame Atlantic Puffins with fish, landing puffins, point blank Razorbills and Shags, and a single Common Murre that posed for 30 minutes with a lovely fish in its bill. Not […] Stuff We eventually made it out on the boat on Tuesday. In the drizzle. At first, we were told that we would be able to land on Inner Farnes for two hours, but right before sailing we learned that the island had been closed (by the researchers). After a short discussion, we decided to take […] Stuff The 2017 UK Puffins and Gannets IPT is off to a great start. We photographed Bamburgh Castle with great clouds late on Monday afternoon. It is early Tuesday morning as I type and it looks as if our boat trip today will be called off because of a light drizzle. Better yet, was breakfast. […] Stuff I was sitting in the United club at EWR thinking that I would take tomorrow off from the blog. But after a few small squares of really good Swiss cheese I decided to put together a quickie. My flight to EDI for the puffins leaves at 8:05pm and gets into Edinburgh at 7:55am when […] Stuff I spent about 8 hours on Saturday micro-adjusting my lightweight Canon EF 70-200mm f/4L IS USM lens with three camera bodies and two different 1.4X III TCs. And each of those must be done wide and tight. That’s a lot of work. All for six hours of gannets in flight photography … Is it […] Stuff Early on Friday morning I began micro-adjusting the 500 II with both of my 2X III TCs and all three camera bodies. Next up was a 1-4-1 Work session (The Work of Byron Katie). Then it was back to the micro-adjusting. After lunch I micro-adjusted the 100-400 II with all three camera bodies with […] Stuff I started micro-adjusting my 500 II with all three camera bodies early on Thursday morning. By 11:30am I was headed into town to have my teeth cleaned, pick up two new pairs of reading glasses — I recently lost two pairs in the field, and pick up 1,500 British pounds from the bank to […] This May Interest Some Of You Just sharing 🙂 My Favorite My favorite bird photography camera body remains the Canon EOS 5D Mark IV. The 5D IV offers a great AF system, high quality files, great high ISO noise control, and all AF points and all AF Area Selection modes […] Stuff I was busy on Wednesday morning working on a few of my images and a really neat bee-eater image that I saw on BPN. I hope to share that image with you here at some point. Now that DB II is finished, it is possible that the LensAlign/FocusTune Micro-adjusting Tutorial will be available for […] Stuff On Tuesday morning I put the finishing touches on the new BIRDS AS ART Current Workflow e-Guide after finishing up work on the blog post announcing its publication. Having spent about eight full hours on Monday finishing up the text it felt good to get that all done. I enjoyed a nice, easy half-mile […] Stuff On Monday I spent the better part of the day (finally) finishing the BIRDS AS ART Current Workflow e-Guide. I had been working on the guide only in fits and starts, but when I woke on Monday I thought that if I devoted the whole day to the project I could finish it. And […] Stuff Nothing too exciting on Sunday. I worked on blog posts, enjoyed another nice, easy, and early 1/2 mile swim, a short nap, and I continued eating well. After spending more than two hours on the phone, I finished reviewing Arash Hazeghi’s update of the The Professional Post Processing Guide so as to reflect the […] |
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