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What’s Up? A large cloud on the eastern horizon on Sunday morning eliminated any chance of sunrise color. And there was little ground fog. Those conditions turned out to be a blessing. Everything was slightly backlit with the sun in front of me (albeit behind the big dark cloud). As dozens of wading birds flew […] Your Favorite? Which of today’s four featured images do you like best? Please let us know why. What’s Up? I went back to the Blue-winged Teal spot at Merritt on Saturday afternoon and got one or two killer-good frames. I had some cold left-over chicken for dinner and went to work on this blog post. […] Please Note This blog post was published early on Saturday 30 January 2021. Then, for the first time ever, it un-published … I have no idea why, but I re-published it on Saturday afternoon. So if you are confused, so am I. What’s Up? I enjoyed a short session on Friday morning at ILE […] What’s Up? Please do not confuse this short notice with Saturday morning’s Why Auto-Exposure Bracketing with Digital? Announcing the RawDigger e-Guide with Two Videos. When You Can Do This Consistently, You Will Know That You Have Exposure Down Pat! And Billy Joel, Elton John, and the Citrus Bowl blog post here. Sony Alpha […] Merritt Island NWR In-the-Vehicle Instruction I will be heading over to Merritt Island NWR on Friday and staying the weekend. Black Point Drive has had lots of Roseate Spoonbills and feeding sprees near the road recently. When I lived in Deltona, I visited often so I know the place well. I have a great little-known […] This Just In! Several folks offered to help create the PDF. IPT veteran Bart Deamer, who was instrumental in helping us improve various drafts of the RawDigger e-Guide, was Johnny-on-the-spot and sent me a link to his perfect PDF will all links working properly at 6:43pm. Then, IPT veteran Muhammad Arif did the same; his […] Merritt Island NWR In-the-Vehicle Instruction I will be heading over to Merritt Island NWR on Friday and staying the weekend. Black Point Drive has had lots of Roseate Spoonbills and feeding sprees near the road recently. When I lived in Deltona ,I visited often, so I know the place well. I have a great little-known […] What’s Up? The blog post planned for today has been postponed until tomorrow so that I can share the news of the beyond-amazing SONY mirrorless digital camera body that was announced yesterday. You will have to wait a day to find out if the Osprey was flying away or toward us. The short story is […] What’s Up? Monday morning began with the discovery of an eagle pair re-building — and copulating in — an old Osprey nest in a pine tree down by the lake. When it cleared, I enjoyed another great vulture flight session with the SONY 600 GM and the a9ii (on a tripod, of course). It has […] What’s Up? Photographically speaking, Sunday morning was an interesting one. I worked at the Vulture Tree for a while when the sun broke through, got some nice tight stuff on a sweet Anhinga with a distant, killer-green background working from the car at 1200mm, and had a Red-shouldered Hawk atop the new, tall perch. With […] What’s Up? Saturday was a foggy, hazy, lazy, rather warm grey day in Central Florida. I went out briefly in the morning and then relaxed for the rest of the day. No bursts. No walks. No swim. For the first time in recent memory, I finished this blog post the day before it was […] What’s Up? Friday morning down by the lake began clear and still. With no birds. No vultures. No cranes. No Cattle Egrets. No Red-shouldered Hawks. I scouted around a bit without any luck. Using the SONY 600 GM/1.4X TC/a9 ii set up on the tripod in the car with the Levered-clamp FlexShooter Pro of course, […] What’s Up? I had my teeth cleaned at 7am yesterday and was done by 7:22am. Jim drove me to Lakeland where my first morning stop had zero American White Pelicans. In previous years there had always been dozens of the huge, beautiful, easy-to-approach pelicans resting on the bulkheads around the lake … Things were better […] What’s Up? I did half-way decent with Cattle Egrets and vultures on a very still Wednesday morning. And yesterday evening was quite good. I spent most of the day selecting images for the second RawDigger video, this one on the Adapted Histogram that Patrick Sparkman came up with to make everyone’s life easier, no matter […] What’s Up? Yesterday morning turned out to be pretty good. In addition to a nice series of a very cooperative Cattle Egret posing in blooming tasselflowers, I go a few nice frames of a Red-Shouldered Hawk taking flight. As I was not quite ready (I should have been), the keepers are in need of some […] What’s Up? I enjoyed a modicum of success on Monday morning before the wind came up and switched to northwest. Working from the car with the SONY 600 GM/1.4X TC/a9 ii on the tripod from my SUV, I learned a lot photographing a Little Blue Heron standing on a cleat on a small boat dock. […] What’s Up? Last weekend, five of the six teams I was rooting for in the NFL playoffs won. This weekend two of my four favorite teams lost. All-time great Drew Brees and his New Orleans Saints went down the tubes, vanquished by G.O.A.T Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The Chiefs managed to eke […] What’s Up? It is 8:30am on Sunday 17 January 2021. I am sitting in my SUV working on today’s blog post. Conditions are perfect for vulture flight: cloudy bright skies with the wind from the east. Both eagles flew over the fish heads and smoked salmon skins that I put out even before I got […] What’s Up? I got some nice stuff on Sandhill Cranes on Friday morning. My favorite was mildly backlit, with a shaded foggy-water-with-all-dark tree-reflections background. Then I drove to the North Field, put on my heavy-duty waders, got out the loppers, and opened up a nice viewing window for my sunset photography. The sunset looked promising […] What’s Up? Thursday morning was same old same old. A few crane images and a few vulture images. I gotta get out of this place 🙂 Last night I went down to the lake to try for some more wading bird landing/reed images. There was some color but not much wind so I did not […] |
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