{"id":11962,"date":"2012-10-23T09:33:48","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T13:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/?p=11962"},"modified":"2012-10-20T09:34:09","modified_gmt":"2012-10-20T13:34:09","slug":"thanks-artie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/2012\/10\/23\/thanks-artie\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanks Artie!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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This very nice image of a bathing Royal Tern was created by David Pugsley with the (discontinued) Canon 500mm f\/4L EF IS lens, the Canon 1.4x EF tele-extender II, and the (discontinued) EOS-1D Mark III. ISO 400. Evaluative metering +2\/3 stop: 1\/1000 sec. at f\/10. Image courtesy of and copyright 2012: David Pugsley. This was the best of a 9-frame sequence. <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Thanks Artie!<\/h3>\n

I received the e-mail below from David Pugsley with the image above attached. I had had the pleasure of meeting David at the Orange Audubon presentation back in September. I had recognized his name from the blog. He struck me as very fine young man (in part because helped us carry in some boxes and stayed late to help us pack up despite the fact that he had a pretty long drive to get back some. As I said, a nice young man. <\/p>\n

Hi Artie,<\/p>\n

Not only is the blog the bomb, it’s also very timely. The day after your Bathing Bird Strategies post<\/a> I went out and made this image of a down-the-barrel Royal Tern. While I was, unfortunately, off sun angle a bit, I’m pretty pleased. And, as you suggested, bottom center sensor with AI Servo active at time of exposure. \ud83d\ude42 Thanks for all you do to help us out.<\/p>\n

Cheers!
\nDavid Pugsley<\/em><\/p>\n

David is a very fine photographer. He has learned a ton both from the blog and from ABP II<\/a>. You can see lots of his stunning images on his website<\/a> both in the home page slide show and in the galleries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Here is David at work on the morning that he made the image above. The photo is courtesy of and copyright 2012: Stephanie Abeles.<\/p>\n