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What’s Up? I have not been down to the lake since I got home from the last DeSoto IPT. I will be headed down this morning, Saturday, May 11, 2019 after I finish this blog post and have breakfast. I spent many hours yesterday working on our next two publications, Andrew McLachlan’s Frog Pond Adventures/A […] What’s Up? Back home and working hard. Swimming every day. If you have a moment, please check out yesterday’s blog post here and let us know which of the six featured images is your favorite and why? Only two folks left their opinions yesterday … The blog is designed to be interactive; the more folks […] What’s Up? The DeSoto Sandbar Secrets IPT was — though sparsely attended with only two participants — a huge success. The weather was just about perfect. And on our one morning with winds too much out of the west the clouds allowed for a great morning. I would have to dig very deep to remember […] What’s Up? Wow, I have so much to share and so many new and exciting images that I didn’t know where to start. So I chose a sharp image made at 400mm with the SONY gear at 1/8 second … Sorry, that is not a typo! . Read on to learn more. Multiple IPT veterans […] What’s Up? DeSoto was pretty good on Saturday morning. Anita North and I had lots of skimmer and terns along with a big flock of Red Knots. She was on the last DeSoto IPT but was not feeling well on the mega-afternoon that we had and came back for a second chance at the copulating […] What’s Up? Thanks to a post-Passover miracle, I was able to borrow a SONY a7R iii from B&H. It arrived on Thursday. I will be setting it up today — Friday May 3, 2019 — and using it at DeSoto. Will I love it? Time will tell. I am headed there today — two days […] What’s Up? I was so busy with the FlexShooter stuff yesterday that I never got down to the lake. But I did enjoy my 3/4 mile plus swim as the weather here continues to be lovely. It is 5:52am on Wednesday May 1, 2019 and I hope to be headed down to the lake at […] What’s Up? I had planned to head down to the lake early this morning but had so much work to do that I opted out despite the perfect weather and a gentle northeast breeze. Preparing this blog post took about six hours; writing good how-to is a painstaking exercise. If something below does not […] What’s Up? I swam a mile on Saturday and Sunday. On Sunday morning I went to Gatorland without a client :). There were few birds and fewer photographers but I did fantastically well. The other photographers spent their morning photographing 90 degrees off sun angle. I had my Nikon 600 VR with me and my […] Stuff With no takers for the Saturday Gatorland In-the-Field Session, I opted to sleep in. So I woke at 4:50am and continued working on this blog post; I had started it last night. Just after sunrise I went into Jim’s BAA butterfly garden to photograph some wildflowers with the Sigma APO Macro 150mm f/2.8 EX […] This breeding plumage Cattle Egret image was created with the the tripod-mounted Canon 800mm f/5.L IS lens, the 2XIII teleconverter, and the Canon EOS-1D Mark IV. ISO 400. Evaluative metering at -1/3 stop: 1/800 sec. at f/11 in Manual mode. Fill flash at -1 stop with my brand new Canon Speedlite 600EX-RT and […] What’s Up? Same old same old. Down by the lake this morning and a 3/4 mile + swim every afternoon. This blog post took several weeks and then about five more hours today to prepare. Please leave any questions on the new methodology as a Comment. IPT Updates I now have four folks for […] What’s Up? Not much. I have spent lots of time relaxing for the past two days and have been doing my 3/4 mile swim each afternoon in delightful weather. I do get down to the lake at ILE each morning for a short photo session. This morning I was trying out a new ballhead with […] Stuff I had so much fun at DeSoto on the Spring IPT that I have decided to run a (short-notice) Spring Sandbar Secrets DeSoto IPT: May 5-through the morning session on May 8, 2019 (3 1/2 days). Scroll down for details. I will go with one participant … Airport pick-up, riding with the leader, and […] What’s Up Friday April 19 did turn out to be a wild weather day. It began with mixed clouds and sun and a pretty stiff south wind. We did great with a fairly tame flock of Red Knot and several other shorebirds species. Red Knot, Calidris canutus, is listed as near-threatened on the IUCN Red […] What’s Up? The free Wednesday morning session went very well as we enjoyed mixed sun and clouds. We had a single young spoonbill, more than a few gorgeous White Ibises, and lots of breeding plumage Laughing Gulls flying, fishing, and bathing in sweet early morning light. We had the Fort DeSoto IPT Meet and Greet […] What’s Up I got a goodbye gift from Texas, a traffic ticket for “failing to follow a traffic control device.” This happened as we pulled into the Valley Airport at about 8:30am. The young, very nervous officer explained that I was going 51mph in a 45mph zoned but that there was some sort of blinking […] What’s Up As I type, Anita North and I are on our way from Roma to HRL, Valley International Airport, in Harlingen, TX. We connect in Houston and then continue on to Orlando. Jim will be picking us up late this afternoon. We will be meeting San Diego IPT veteran and my seemingly long-lost brother, […] What’s Up? Mornings on the Ramirez Ranch have gotten progressively better with Friday morning the best so far. Under cloudy skies we had many many chances with Green Jay, Long-billed Thrasher, Golden-fronted Woodpecker, and White-tipped Dove. And we photographed our first Bronzed Cowbird, sleek black with a bright red iris. In the afternoon, two Lark […] What’s Up? Anita North and I have been working like dogs in the midday Texas heat. We’ve had some good chances and DAY 2 was better than DAY 1 — more birds, more species, better set-ups. Creating a feeder set-up is a long, exacting, and arduous endeavor. The best way to sum it up is […] |
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