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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 […] What’s Up? Wednesday was another totally grey day. I walked the pier with the a9 ii/200/600 and created 360 intentionally blurred images. I kept four. None will probably ever see the light of day, or be featured on the blog … Many times when I walk with a zoom lens — be it a SONY […] What’s Up? The birds on the pier railings are forever painting the floor boards with whitewash. As I walk, I see all sorts of Rorschach birds and animals in the patterns of the white poop. As it was cloudy-grey on Wednesday morning, I walked the pier with the SONY 100-400 and an a9 ii and […] What’s Up? Monday morning turned out rather nice weather-wise. It was quite still early, with some sweet light as the sun occasionally broke through the clouds. I started with a few images of my favorite crane family. Then after driving around a bit scouting, created a nice bird-scape or two of a Great Blue Heron […] A Different Opinion I liked the Armada Best (gasp!) It was unanimous: eight out of eight folks who left a comment on the Cackling Goose flocks in low light images in yesterday’s blog post preferred Image #1, the Flotilla. I like them both, but liked the Armada — Image #2, best. I love the more […] What’s Up? With the huge black cloud that appeared seemingly out of nowhere on Saturday morning I took the a9 ii/200-600 on my morning walk on the pier. I tried but failed to create any really good pleasing blurs. I did keep three cormorant blurs and one American flag blur. I enjoyed watching the Buffalo […] What’s Up? Friday morning turned out to be a lot better than expected. With the wind first from the south and then switching to the southwest, I created 325 images including lots of vulture flight shots. I got a few good ones. I never realized that at this time of year, with the sun rising […] What’s Up? I enjoyed lots of action (story below) at my road-kill cafe set-up on Thursday morning. Then I got a ton of work done on the RawDigger e-guide. Though it is nearly finished, I created a PDF of the current version and sent to all who have saved $10.00 by purchasing the pre-publication version. […] What’s Up? With wind against sun conditions, Wednesday morning was not very productive. I did manage a few nice tight vulture images at 840mm using my vehicle as a blind. But that was it. I got home early and got a tremendous amount of work done on the RawDigger Guide. As some folks are having […] What’s Up? I did wind up going down to the lake on Tuesday morning, but with clear skies and northwest winds, there was nothing to shoot so I did my walk and headed home early. On the pier, I observed more carefully than I usually do and noted lots of small pellets with the pink […] What’s Up? I shipped the Canon loaner gear back to B&H yesterday. With thanks. Then I ordered an R5, an RF 14X TC, an RF 100-500, and an extra battery from Steve Elkins at Bedfords. As they are almost impossible to get right now, I will need to be a bit patient. If you are […] What’s Up? As I got to know BPN-friend Brian Sump, it quickly became evident that this was a guy who was good at everything he chose to do: all-state band in clarinet, a football star in college and in the pros, a family man with high values, a force in his church, a very successful […] What’s Up? I drove around on Saturday morning looking for relatively small, interesting scenes so that I could create some in-camera Multiple Exposures and some in-camera HDR images for the BAA EOS R5 User’s Guide. I did fairly well. I did find lots of old oaks with patches of Baton Rouge (Strawberry) lichen, but none […] What’s Up? Conditions were perfect for the road-kill cafe on Friday morning. There was a brisk wind from the southeast along with clear skies. I put out the bait — a half-eaten opossum carcass, some rotten smoked salmon skins, and two large, recently-thawed fish heads courtesy of Mike at Junior’s Fish Market in Lake Wales. […] What’s Up? There were lots of Ospreys at Sebastian and lots of photographers. Conditions were dead-solid perfect with a 15mph southeast wind and clear skies. But, there were no fish in the inlet, so the Ospreys were not diving. “You should have been here three days ago. The birds were diving and coming out of […] What’s Up? The road-kill cafe provided lots of action on Wednesday morning. I sat in the car nearby until the first vulture flew in and by the time I got in position one of the two circling Bald Eagles struck the opossum carcass and tried to fly away with it. But missed. I worked exclusively […] What’s Up? My favorite morning location in Lakeland was terrible. There were about eight American White Pelicans way too far away on large support ring around the soon-to-be-dismantled lighted, ornamental X-mas tree in the middle of the lake. Usually there are several dozen of them sitting on the bulkheads right next to the lake. There […] What’s Up? On Monday I got back in the pool, did my bursts, and took a morning and afternoon health walk. After a decent morning photo session, I got lots of work done on the R5/R6 Camera User’s Guide. Today is Tuesday 29 December 2020. It is 7:20am as I type; Jim and I […] What’s Up? Sunday was one of those days. The morning photography session was not too good. I did not do any work on the R5 Camera User’s Guide. I did not do any work on the RawDigger Guide (though I did get the information that I needed from Patrick to go forward. I did not […] What’s Up? I spent most of Saturday working on the Canon EOS R5 Camera Body User’s Guide. It is hard work that involves lots of research and — with camera and lens in hand, lots of experimenting. I am, however, making good progress as I slog through the relevant menu items. I had fun […] |
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