With clear skies and barely any wind Denise Ippolito and I again went a bit out of the traditional Bosque box by starting our day at the Ed Kranepool. I went 16-35 for the goose blast off. That was followed by the best morning of the year for departing Sandhill Crane flight photography as the breeze came up from the north\/northeast. I killed at first with the 600 II\/1.4X III\/7D II combo but ditched the TC after a while as the birds were getting too big in the frame. <\/p>\n
I spent pretty much a full day’s work getting images together for the Canon Digital Learning Center bird photography video project. I still have a ton of work to do. They need about seventy 16:9 images. So far I have delivered only 18 :(. Hard work. I stayed in for only the second afternoon of the trip to watch some of the NFL games while optimizing new images for the videos. And for the blog. <\/p>\n
Coming soon: a free Bosque Site Guide update for all: The State of the Bosque…. Today’s blog post, the 363rd in a row, took 1 1\/2 hours to assemble (including the time for the DPP 4 RAW conversion and the creation of the animated GIF). This blog post was published from my hotel room in Socorro, NM at 3:45am. We will continue our busman’s holiday tomorrow. We meet the 4-Day Bosque IPT group on Saturday afternoon. <\/p>\n
Denise and I will again be collaborating on two Bosque IPTs in 2015, one before Thanksgiving and one after. Dates and rates will be announced here soon. If you would like to receive early notice, please shoot me an e-mail<\/a> with the words “Bosque 2015” in the Subject Line. We already have several interested folks. <\/p>\n