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Special Handling Required

The images for this 3-frame in-camera Art Vivid HDR were created with the Canon 24-105mm f/4L IS EF USM AF lens hand held at 24mm) and the Canon EOS 5D Mark III ISO 400. Evaluative metering +1 1/3 stops: the base exposure was 1/800 sec. at f/5.6 in Manual mode (then +/- two stops). […]

The Decision

The Decision

The night before I was to begin packing for my trip to Alaska for the sold out Bear Boat IPT and then continuing on to Portland for the Dahlia Farm IPT, I lay awake trying to decide whether or not to bring the 600 f/4L IS II in addition to the 200-400 f/4L […]

Variations on a Theme

This image was created with the Canon EF 200-400mm f/4L IS USM Lens with Internal 1.4x Extender (hand held at 381mm) and the Canon EOS-1D X. ISO 800. Evaluative metering +1/3 stop; 1/1600 sec. at f/4.5 in Manual mode.

Central sensor/AI Servo-Surround/Rear Focus AF active at the moment of exposure. With the bird […]

Locked and Loaded

This is Lou Coetzer’s winning image from the 1st competition.

Locked and Loaded BIRDS AS ART 2nd International Bird Photography Competition

Thanks to yeoman work by the BAA competition team, Peter Kes, Denise Ippolito, and yours truly, the BIRDS AS ART 2nd International Bird Photography Competition is now open. We are ready to […]

Camargue & Provence France IPT, July 2014

Card design by & all images courtesy of and copyright 2012: Denise Ippolito.

Camargue & Provence France IPT: June 25- July 2nd, 2014/6 1/2 days of photography: $6995 (Limit: 10 photographers) Co-leaders: Arthur Morris & Denise Ippolito. Though it is expected to fill quickly, this workshop needs a minimum of 6 to run. […]

Flying High on Hood Island with the Canon 200-400mm f/4L IS USM with Internal Extender

This image was created with the Canon EF 200-400mm f/4L IS USM Lens with Internal 1.4x Extender (hand held at 300mm) and the Canon EOS-1D X. ISO 800. Evaluative metering +2 stops off the light sky: 1/1600 sec. at f/4.5 in Manual mode.

Central sensor/AI Servo-Surround/Rear Focus AF active at the moment of […]

Interesting MLK Follow-up and a Link to the I Have a Dream Video

Interesting MLK Follow-up and a Link to the I Have a Dream Video

While discussing yesterday’s blog post with Denise Ippolito and doing some additional research I found a very interesting piece on the Forbes web site here.

In How Martin Luther King Improvised ‘I Have a Dream” Carmine Gallo writes:

Few people know […]

Remembering 50 Years Ago Today

Remembering 50 Years Ago Today

It might not be a bad idea for each of us to re-consider Martin Luther King’s words of 50 years ago. I remember teaching the speech to one of my my sixth grade classes about 35 years ago. They mastered it beautifully and performed it in a very moving assembly […]

My Love Affair with the Canon EF 200-400mm f/4L IS USM lens with Internal 1.4x Extender Deepens

This image was created with the hand held Canon EF 200-400mm f/4L IS USM Lens with Internal 1.4x Extender (with the internal TC in place at 420mm) and the Canon EOS-1D X). ISO 800. Evaluative metering -1 2/3 stops: 1/5000 sec. at f/8 in Av mode was a severe underexposure; I had been set […]

2-4 Giraffes and More

This image of a three Maasai Giraffes was created with BLUBB-supported Canon EOS-1D X and the Canon EF 200-400mm f/4L IS USM lens with Internal 1.4x Extender (with the internal extender in place at 307mm). ISO 400. Evaluative metering +1/3 stop: 1/80 sec. at f/7.1.

Central sensor/AI Servo-Surround/Rear Focus AF on the face […]

A Matter of Brilliance and Perspective

This image was created with the Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 28-300mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR Zoom lens (hand held at 78mm) and the Nikon D4 . ISO 5000. Matrix metering +1/3 stop: 1/160 sec. at f/5.

Image courtesy of and copyright 2013: Todd Gustafson

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A Matter of […]

The Great African Bedspread Mystery

The Great African Bedspread Mystery

It was our next to last day at the wonderful Seronera Serengeti Lodge where we had been consistently killing the Leopards (at least in a figurative photographic sense). I walked into my room, put some of my gear down here and there, and was puzzled when I noted that the […]

Announcing the 2014 South Florida Mini-IPTs

Announcing the 2014 South Florida Mini-IPTs

Because of our intense travel schedule that includes a trip to Japan I will not be running the traditional SW FLA IPT. In addition, in an effort to give some folks a chance to get a taste of our teaching and our passion for bird photography, Denise Ippolito […]

43 Hours Door to Door, With a Bad Head Cold; You Gotta Love It!

This Maasai Giraffe image was created with the BLUBB-supported Canon EF 200-400mm f/4L IS USM Lens with Internal 1.4x Extender (with the internal TC in place at at 448mm) and the Canon EOS 5D Mark III. ISO 400. Evaluative metering +1 stop: 1/500 sec. at f/11.

Central sensor/AI Servo-Surround/Rear Focus on the giraffe’s […]

Can Having a Free and Open Mind Help You Become a Better Photographer?

Day 7 Morning Dry Landing at Peurto Velasco Ebarra, Floreana Part II

This image was created with the tripod-mounted Canon EF 200-400mm f/4L IS USM Lens with Internal 1.4x Extender (at 400mm) and the Canon EOS 5D Mark III Digital Camera (Body Only). ISO 400. Evaluative metering +2/3: 1/80 sec. at f/4.

Two sensors […]

The Amazing Versatility of the Canon EF 200-400mm f/4L IS USM lens with Internal 1.4x Extender

Day 7 Morning Dry Landing at Peurto Velasco Ebarra, Floreana: Part I

This 3-frame in-camera +/- 2 stop Art Vivid HDR image was created with the tripod-mounted Canon EF 200-400mm f/4L IS USM Lens with Internal 1.4x Extender (at 200mm) and the Canon EOS 5D Mark III Digital Camera (Body Only). ISO 800. Evaluative metering […]

Galapagos Penguins and White Sky Silhouettes

Day 6 Afternoon Panga Ride: Punta Moreno, Isabela

This bird-scape line-up of Galapagos Penguins was photographed with the hand held Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS II lens (at 120mm) and the Canon EOS-1D X. ISO 400. Evaluative metering -1 stop to keep from burning the white breasts of the penguins: 1/640 sec. at f/9 in […]

Any Use Now for the 70-200 f/2.8L IS?

Day 6 Mid-morning Panga Ride: Elizabeth Bay, Isabela

This image was created with the hand held Canon EF 200-400mm f/4L IS USM Lens with Internal 1.4x Extender (270mm) and the Canon EOS-1D X. ISO 400. Evaluative metering -+1/3 stop: 1/2500 sec. at f/6.3 in Av mode.

Three sensors below the central sensor/AI Servo-Surround/Rear Focus […]

An Eye For Design: Jean-Luc Vaillant

This image of a Galapagos Tortoise was created by Jean-Luc Vaillant on last July’s Galapagos Photo-Cruise at the new azolla fern pond that our guide Juan discovered with the 70-200mm f/2.8L IS II (hand held at 125mm) and the Canon EOS 5D Mark III. ISO 800. Evaluative metering +1 stop: 1/320 sec. at f/8 […]

A Fine Young Photographer: Paul Pinto Jr.

This image was created by Paul Pinto Jr. on the recently concluded Nickerson Baby Beach Nesting Birds IPT with the tripod-mounted Canon EF 500mm f/4L IS II USM lens, the Canon 1.4x EF Extender III (Teleconverter), and the Canon EOS 7D . ISO 640: 1/640 sec. at f/8 in Manual mode.

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