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What’s Up? Too tired on Sunday evening to finish packing I set my alarm for 3:25am and as always, woke before the alarm. My pick-up was for 4:45am but the drivers always arrive early since they have no idea in the world where Indian Lake Estates is. By 4:30 I was finished packing and in […] What’s Up? Me, very early on Sunday 7 APR. I need to pack today as I am being picked up at 4:45am on Monday morning to get to MCO (Orlando International Airport) in time to make my 8am flights to the Rio Grande Valley. After two days of setting up the set-ups, three folks will […] What’s Up? I am 100% convinced that NPS repaired my 600 VR (to some degree) but that the TC-E14 that they repaired was the problem all along. When I tried creating sharp images with the 600 VR and the repaired TC, the sharpness issues remained. So I tried my back-up TC-E14 instead. I focus Fine-tuned […] What’s Up I woke early today, WED 3 APR, and will be heading down to the lake when the sun comes up to set out some road kill and do some further testing with the Nikon gear that was returned from NPS. See more on that situation below. I have settled on swimming 3/4 mile […] What’s Up? I spent Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning with Donette Largay setting up her Canon 5D Mark III and working on improving her in-the-field skills. We photographed the young and adult Sandhill Cranes, Osprey, and both species of vulture that came to a road-killed snake that I put out. Donette’s biggest problems were with […] What’s Up? Sigmon and Sadako Whitener drove in the dark from Sarasota to ILE on Friday morning to partake of the baby cranes. They were glad that they did. “The pleasure was ours! It was great fun.” We did well with the two rapidly growing colts and great with the smaller chicks. They also enjoyed […] What’s Up The sun finally came out this morning and the baby cranes were great. A couple is coming from Sarasota tomorrow (FRI 29 MAR) for a morning crane session, and blog regular Donnette Largay is coming up to ILE from Palm Beach on Saturday for an afternoon and a following morning instructional session; she […] What’s Up? On a clousy Monday morning past, the brilliant Micheal Tapes (creator of LensAlign MK II & FocusTune) came by with friend Dennis Huff. Despite the overcast weather we had good luck with the smaller-but-growing-fast pair of crane chicks and with the pair of larger colts. Both have become quite dependable. After our session […] What’s Up? On Saturday I went to Gatorland to work with Ron M. Owen, a preacher now living in Orlando. He was born in Winter Haven, FL, just up the road form Lake Wales. In short, Gatorland was pretty lousy and working with Ron was pretty wonderful. Many of the easy and accessible Great Egrets […] What’s Up? I went back down to the lake on Friday morning on a gorgeous day. Armed only with the Nikon 500 PF, the back-up TC-E14, and my back-up D850 I did quite well. There was a 250 bird-feeding spree consisting of about 200+ breeding plumage Great Egrets and an assortment of other herons and […] What’s Up? On Wednesday, after Patrick Sparkman spotted something in a RAW file that I had sent to him and others, I re-focus fined-tuned my main D850 body with the TC-E14 and the 600 VR, the combo that had been giving the biggest problems in terms of sharpness. Patrick suggested a change in my micro-adjusting […] What’s Up? Thanks to the technical brilliance of Patrick Sparkman (once again!) I may have solved my 600 VR AF problems. I hope to be heading down to the lake when it gets light here and find that the proof is in the pudding. If it is, I will have a ton to share here […] What’s Up? It is cold and raining here at ILE on Tuesday morning. I have decided to send my 600 VR to Nikon so that they can check the AF performance; I would not be shocked if they find that these is some misalignment of the lens elements … Or some other problem. IPT […] What’s Up? Gatorland was very good on Sunday morning. It was cloudy dark until about 10am when things began to brighten. I headed home after eleven when the sun came out for a while. I went all Sony on Sunday working mostly with the 1.4X but also with the 100-400 alone and a bit with […] What’s Up? Gatorland was great this morning; read and see more below. Learn more tomorrow about the sharpness issues that I have been having with my Nikon 600 VR with and without the TC-E14 and both of my D850 bodies. After seeing my images from this morning with the 500 PF and both D850 bodies […] What’s Up? It is early Saturday morning and I am off to Gatorland. Canon EF 500mm f/4L IS II USM Lens Shock the world price drop: $500.00 on 15 MAR 2018! Don Busby is offering Canon 500mm f/4L IS II USM (USA) in near-mint condition for a BAA record low $6299.00 (was $6799.00). Just […] What’s Up? Right now I am spending every morning photographing a pair of small Sandhill Cranes colts and a recently hatched pair of tiny chicks. Though they are silly-tame, making a great or even very good image is a challenge. I have been using both my SONY and my Nikon gear. Please take a minute […] What’s Up? I had too much fun down by the lake this morning when my favorite pair of cranes walked right up to me with both of their chicks. I’ve been swimming most every day, most recently about 60 lengths (with 44 to the mile). I swim very slowly. 🙂 I have been having […] What’s Up? I am on my way to First Data Field in Port St. Lucie, Fl to see the Mets/Cardinals spring training game. Son-in-law Erik Egensteiner is driving. Alissa and Jen and Maya and Idris are in Lissy’s rental car on their way to the game. It is gonna be a warm one. I am […] What’s Up? My younger daughter Alissa and her younger son Idris are visiting from Long Island. I had lunch with them and my granddaughter Maya on Friday afternoon and all of us will be at Jennifer’s for dinner with her husband Erik. I was thrilled on Tuesday to learn that multiple IPT veteran Malcolm […] |
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