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On Your Bucket List? If you are a nature photographer and the Galapagos is on your bucket list, please read everything in the trip announcement below carefully. Right now only two folks are signed up. I need to have eight more deposits (likely by the end of September) for the trip to run. If the […] Stuff I spent four hours on the phone yesterday getting our three ATT e-mail addresses to work … I have been averaging walking about 5 1/2 miles a day for the past few days. PHOTOEXPO 2018 If you missed the PHOTOEXPO 2018 announcement and live anywhere within driving or flying distance of Memphis, TN, […] Stuff When I was about ten years old, my late mother often said, “This child does not know the meaning of moderation.” With the great success of my walking exercise program I decided to jog one hundred steps on Friday. Not smart. My left knee did not like that at all … PHOTOEXPO 2018 […] Stuff Walked eleven plus miles on Thursday, 8+ on Friday. And a bit of easy swimming. I have been getting some work done and continue playing a bit of golf and getting some work done. PHOTOEXPO 2018 If you missed the PHOTOEXPO 2018 announcement and live anywhere within driving or flying distance of Memphis, […] Stuff I have been walking a ton — more than 11 miles yesterday. That included 22 holes of golf. Very badly played golf. On my 5.5-mile Wednesday morning walk I had four southbound migrant Least Sandpipers flying over the lake down by the pier. I have started work on my 2017 taxes will begin work […] Stuff Lots of walking. Lots of putting. And on Monday afternoon, I actually played a few holes. Thanks to Amy. Speaking of Amy, she visited a friend in Sarasota recently and shared some really nice sunrise/sunset land-/sea-scape images in her most recent blog post here. I started this post from scratch early on Tuesday […] Stuff It’s great to be home and eating well. My jet-lag is abating. Last night I slept from 8pm until 5:45am: 9 hours and 45 minutes. I have spent a good deal of the past few days napping and resting and reading; perhaps I can get some work done today. I will be starting on […] Stuff Amy and I flew from Edinburgh to Orlando on Wednesday with a 4 1/2 hour layover in Toronto. Everything went smoothly. MCO was a zoo; Jim picked us up just before 7pm. We were home at 8:30pm (1:30am Scotland time the next day …) I slept in my own bed for the first time […] Stuff From Dejection to Euphoria in Rough Seas … After being weathered out of two gannet boat trips at Bempton Cliffs, the group was really looking forward to our two trips out of Dunbar, Scotland. Captain Gordon asked us to be at the dock at 7am. We were. He arrived with bad news: the weather […] Stuff At 3am on Sunday, the sky was clear. At 4am on Sunday, the sky was clear. At 5am on Sunday, the sky was clear. At 6am on Sunday, the sky was clear. At 7am on Sunday the sky was clear. Here we go again I thought. Then some heavy cloud cover moved in over […] Stuff The unprecedented period of sunny with blue skies weather in the UK has been merciless and has been most often paired with winds from the north. In other words, tough conditions all day … The weather in July on the northeast coast of England is almost always cloudy bright with lots of gray days, […] Stuff The unprecedented run of sunny days and blue skies in Europe continues. Despite that and a less than ideal northwest wind we did fairly well on Tuesday on our first visits to the island off Seahouses. It was supposed to be cloudy on Wednesday but alas, it was another sunny day. The wind however, […] Stuff Sunday morning was very tough for photography at Bempton with a clear bright sunrise; there were no clouds, no fog, and no mist at all. The sun was right in our face, along with the east wind … It was so bright that it was impossible to create the great landing gannet silhouettes that […] Stuff Despite the fact that the UK is in the midst of a virtually unprecedented period of clear blue skies day after day, things have been going great on the UK pre-trip. Summers in the UK are usually cloudy and misty, perfect for seabird photography … Each day we have figured out something new about […] Stuff The word on the street is that sunny afternoons at Bempton Cliffs are best. Not. They are OK, but Thursday morning dawned cloudy and we absolutely killed. It took a while to find the best spot, but once we did, we enjoyed non-stop action for several hours. PHOTOEXPO 2018 If you missed the […] Stuff We flew from Helsinki to Edinburgh, Scotland on Sunday evening past for 2 more full days of R&R. Though I walked 6.2 miles on Monday and 7.4 miles on Tuesday, I did lots of resting up to be ready for the upcoming UK Puffins and Gannets IPT; the knee continues to feel better each […] Stuff Amy went running when we got to Helsinki and found that Barnacle Geese were easy to photograph at the Kaisaniemi Botanic Garden. We headed there and did well on Saturday afternoon. Anita went on Sunday morning and had several families with goslings of various ages. Amy and I returned midday on Sunday to get […] Stuff When I dropped Anita off at the loon nest by Gednje, we noted that their was no loon on the nest and no loons on the small lake. The pair had lost its egg. She opted to stay and see what she could find. I drove a short distance and found the dirt road […] Stuff Out trip to the northwestern part of the Verlanger Peninsula was a pretty much a bust for birds but the rocky land- and sea-scapes were beautiful. Anita North got some nice bird images by out-working me by a mile again … On Day 2 we had thick fog and on Day 3 rain so […] Stuff On Tuesday we drove three hours west and north to explore the arctic tundra around Gednje, Kongsfjord, and Berlevåg. On Wednesday morning Anita was anxious to get in a throw-over blind at the lake by the Gednje intersection to photograph the Red-throated Loon nest that we had seen both the week before and the […] |
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