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What’s Up?<\/h3>\n

When we first approached our chosen morning spot we were dismayed to see dozens of other cars and lots of photographers where there had been nobody but us for three straight mornings. Other tour leaders and small photo groups often follow me around or see us when they are scouting. As we got closer though I was thrilled to see that though they were close to where we had been they actually had their group (or groups–there were about 30 photographers in all) in the wrong spot. They had trees and bushes cluttering the ridge line and half of the folks had a large, and I mean very large tree, between them and the color atop the ridge. Man, you gotta love it. <\/p>\n

Yes, BIRDS AS ART IPTs are expensive. You do, however, get what you pay for. We enjoyed our best morning blast-off of our two-week stay. I will share an image made on our last morning with you here soon. <\/p>\n

Thanks a stack to blog subscriber and multiple IPT veteran David Policansky and wife Sheila who treated Denise Ippolito and me to an amazingly wonderful dinner at Scalo Northern Italian Grill<\/a> on Central Avenue in SE Albuquerque. Right now I gotta hit the sack as I have a 3am wake up call for my 6:05am flight. <\/p>\n


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This image was created on the afternoon of Day 3 of the second 2015 Bosque IPT with the Induro tripod\/Mongoose M3.6-mounted Canon EF 600mm f\/4L IS II USM lens<\/a>, the Canon Extender EF 1.4X III<\/a>, and the Canon EOS 5DS R. <\/a> ISO 800. Evaluative metering +2\/3 stop: 1\/500 sec. at f\/5.6 in Av mode. Color temperature: 8000K. <\/p>\n

Center AF point (Manual selection)\/AI Servo\/Shutter Button AF and re-compose. This optimized image is a relatively small crop: 108.2 mbs out of the original 144mb size of the converted TIF file. Click on the image to see a larger version. <\/p>\n

Sandhill Crane sunset silhouette<\/strong><\/h2>\n