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What’s Up? I have spent the last day and a half answering e-mails most related to my upcoming Galapagos trip. It is looking like the best itinerary ever as in addition to our two morning landings on Hood Island for the Waved Albatrosses and our two morning landings at Darwin Bay, my guide has added […] What’s Up? Though pretty well jet-lagged on Wednesday, I optimized a few images, worked on several blog posts, and answered a ton of e-mails. I had planned an early evening swim but for the second day in a row thunder and lightning intervened. It has been 97 degrees most days in Florida recently. This […] What’s Up? Well, I managed to stay up till 10:30pm on Tuesday evening, 6:30pm Alaska time. I slept only two hours until 12:30am. My body must have considered that as a late nap because I stayed up for two and one-half hours. Then I slept till 8:30am. It is just before noon right now on […] Stuff, and the 2017 Bear Boat (Bear Cubs) IPT Report I had not realized that my ORD > MCO flight had been moved back an hour so I got into Orlando at about 3:30pm (instead of at 2:30pm) on Tuesday afternoon. Jim picked me up right on the money. After a stop […] Stuff I got four hours of solid sleep on my Anchorage to Chicago red-eye. I am in Chicago as I type and should be in Orlando by about 2:30pm. Apologies for the problems with the images in the last two blog posts. Once I alerted Peter Kes he identified the problem and solved it […] Stuff I wrote and published this blog post in the bar next to the Kodiak Airport, the Navigator Lounge — free wi-fi and free plugs 🙂 I did not imbibe. I am on the Ravn Air 7:15 flight to Anchorage. After a four-hour layover my flight to Chicago departs just after midnight; Jim is scheduled […] Stuff I prepared this short blog post while still on Kodiak Island on the morning of Tuesday, July 18. We are scheduled to fly via float plane to the Bear Boat today. When this is published, I should still be at Katmai National Park photographing bears and should be returning to Kodiak to start the […] Stuff It is nasty and windy and raining here on Kodiak on the morning of Tuesday, July 18. I am not sure if the float planes will be flying today. If they are, and I hope that they will be, I will be offline until sometime on Monday, July 24. If you have any questions […] Stuff My flights yesterday were long and relatively painless. My flight from Anchorage to Kodiak was delayed an hour making my long day even longer 🙂 As I approached security at MCO for my flight to Seattle I was thinking how blessed I am. Blessed by relatively good health. Blessed to be going to yet […] Travel Miracles For starters, for the first time in decades on a photo trip, I got down to only a single checked bag: 49.75 pounds. Why? There is a weight limit on the float plane from Kodiak to Katmai and I finally decided to comply. It was difficult, but I wound up not having to […] Stuff It is quite amazing that I am pretty much back to normal as far as sleep and jet-lag are concerned after returning from Scotland, five time zones ahead, just two days ago. Tomorrow I fly to Alaska to get four times zones behind. My poor body 🙂 I worked on this blog post while […] Stuff My jet-lag was much abated on Friday. I micro-adjusted a few wide angle lenses for my upcoming Bear Boat IPT trip, did some more work on the LensAlign/FocusTune Micro-adjustment e-Guide, and began packing as well. I head up to an airport hotel this afternoon, and fly all the way to Kodiak, AK on Sunday. […] 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 […] |
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