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When I Got on the Ship … When I got on the ship, Berger Brothers on Long Island, NY had a Nikon 500 PF in stock right and there is a possibility that it is still available. As they are pretty much impossible to get, give Brad Berger a call if you would like to […] This Just In! Berger Brothers on Long Island, NY has a Nikon 500 PF in stock right now. As they are pretty much impossible to get, give Brad Berger a call if you would like to own this lens: Brad Berger President, Berger Bros Camera, P 516-496-1000. Stuff As I am traveling in the Southern […] Stuff We made it to Ushuaia, Argentina without any hassles. It is cold and dark and windy here. As we do not get on the ship until Friday afternoon, I will spend most of my time working on blog posts for the time I am gone. Do consider joining me on an IPT 🙂 […] Stuff We are all packed and headed for the airport as I type. I fly MCO to MIA and then red-eye to EZE (Buenos Aires). Then we take a bus to AEP, the in-country Buenos Aires airport. From there we fly to Ushuaia arriving — if all goes well — at about 7:30 pm on […] Stuff I have been opening an unending stream of Amazon Prime packages and trying on all manner of sneakers and boots and gloves and long johns in preparation for the big Emperor Penguin attempt. We fly next Monday. News on the Galapagos Front/Limit 12/Openings: 3 Right now I have nine folks committed to the […] Stuff Well, the hoped for miracle occurred yesterday; Multiple IPT veteran Michal Goodman Fed-Exed his Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 500mm f/5.6E PF ED VR lens to me. As soon as it arrives I will begin micro-adjusting it. I was so excited when he called that I could barely stand it. Alpha Epsilon Pi Fraternity Not […] The Edge of Innovation Podcast Episode 74 — the Art of Bird Photography with Arthur Morris Apologies for being a bit late in publicizing this. I was listening to it as I typed. I gotta say that every other line is cracking me up. You can learn at lot about me: my […] This Just In! IPT veteran Michael Goodman is a saint and shall be forever blessed. At least by me. He is sending me his 500 PF today to arrive on Thursday! Desperate to Give Away a Free IPT/Help Needed If you are one of the very few lucky enough to own the just released Nikon […] Stuff Been blowing lots of balloons. Ordered a ton of cold weather stuff and dry bags on Amazon getting ready for the upcoming bucket list trip; I leave on Monday to try for Emperor Penguins with chicks … Success is not at all guaranteed. Thanks to all who shared some of their favorite music yesterday; […] Stuff In yesterday’s It Doesn’t Matter … It Does Matter blog post here, comments were inadvertently closed for much of the day. If you would like to take a shot at the Why Sit? questions, please re-visit. There is lots to learn as always. Huge Price Drop Canon EF 200-400 f/4L IS USM Lens […] Stuff On Friday, I drove over to Tampa to have lunch with a friend so I figured that it made sense to drop down to DeSoto to photograph on Friday afternoon and Saturday morning. I got an Airbnb room for Friday night for less than $50; that saved me about $80. Friday afternoon was not […] Stuff I had a pair of Pileated Woodpeckers right outside of my SUV on Thursday morning but was unable to create a single image. 🙁 There is still lots of room on the San Diego IPT. Couples and IPT veterans are invited to e-mail for discount info. Scroll down for details. Trivia — […] Stuff Condolences to Chicago Cubs fans; the Cubbies scored only a single run in back to back single elimination games and thus will not be taking part in the MLB post season. I was glad to learn that multiple IPT veteran Mike Gotthelf signed up for the Hooptie Deux/Spoonbill IPT next February. See yesterday’s […] Stuff Help Still Needed With an AF-S Nikkor 500mm f/5.6 PF Lens If you know of a camera store that has one of these lenses in stock please do not leave a comment. Please call my cell phone at 863-221-2372 or shoot me an e-mail immediately. More on this new lens soon. […] Stuff I watched lots of NFL football yesterday. I view the games using a combination of NFL Season Ticket and Tivo. I blew lots of balloons and did get around to testing a new ballhead system that turned out to be pretty neat. I will be sharing more on that here fairly soon. Help […] Stuff I spent most of Friday watching the TIVO of Tiger Wood’s first PGA tour victory in five years. And blowing lots of balloons. This blog post took more than four hours to prepare. 🙂 News on the Galapagos Front/Limit 12/Openings: 3 Right now I have nine folks committed to the 2019 Galapagos Photo […] Stuff The DeSoto IPT ended with lone participant Ed Dow and I sitting in six inches of warm saltwater photographing some tame spoonbills in still blue water … More on Ed in a future blog post. Help Needed With an AF-S Nikkor 500mm f/5.6 PF Lens If you know of a camera store that […] Stuff Tuesday morning started off really slow at DeSoto. I did well at 840mm on the tripod with flying Laughing Gulls. On the way back to the car we found some ibises and ducks in a big rain pool and spent a productive hour with them. We all came up with some really near bathing […] Stuff We lucked out on Sunday afternoon as the wind switched from east to west. We enjoyed two hours of flat calm silky blue water background bird photography. Ed Dow did great getting low and approaching the birds slowly. We photographed lots of shorebirds including Short-billed Dowitcher, Ruddy Turnstone, Sanderling, Wilson’s and Semipalmated Plovers, Least […] Stuff As noted yesterday, we had a killer-good morning at DeSoto and as expected, a great working lunch at the Neptune Grill in Gulfport. Our Airbnb condo is absolutely wonderful. A big low tide revealed a substantial fish kill along a creek that leads into the lagoon. The number of different species of fish […] |
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