{"id":26465,"date":"2015-04-17T00:01:02","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T04:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/?p=26465"},"modified":"2016-09-04T08:54:17","modified_gmt":"2016-09-04T12:54:17","slug":"lousy-camera-or-lousy-photographer-photo-mechanic-the-birds-as-art-mac-savior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/2015\/04\/17\/lousy-camera-or-lousy-photographer-photo-mechanic-the-birds-as-art-mac-savior\/","title":{"rendered":"Lousy Camera or Lousy Photographer? Photo Mechanic, the BIRDS AS ART Mac Savior"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Thursday was a busy, busy day. Tomorrow I fly to Islip to pay my 92-year old Mom a surprise visit. I was so busy that I have not packed a single thing and I leave the house at 9:30am. Yikes. I’d better get to bed soon. I did have time for a swim and an ice bath today. <\/p>\n

This blog post, the 99th in a row, took about 2 hours to prepare and was published at one minute after midnight on Friday.<\/p>\n

Travis Hamonic<\/h3>\n

If you have 14 minutes and a box of tissues handy check out the E-60 video here<\/a> on young New York Ranger Travis Hamonic’s efforts to help out kids who’ve lost their dads. Again, thanks to older daughter Jennifer for opening my eyes to this one. <\/p>\n

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This image was created down by the lake near my home at Indian Lake Estates, FL with the hand held Canon EF 300mm f\/2.8L IS II USM lens<\/a> and the Canon EOS 7D Mark II<\/a>. ISO 400. Evaluative metering +2\/3 stop off the blue sky: 1\/5000 sec. at f\/3.5. in Manual mode. <\/p>\n

Center AF point\/Expand\/Shutter Button AF as framed was active at the moment of exposure. Click on the image to see a larger version. <\/p>\n

Badly out of focus Osprey <\/strong><\/h2>\n