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What’s Up<\/h3>\n

I photographed with friends at the cliffs on Thursday morning and made a conscious effort to do as few pelicans as possible. I had a ton of fun and created only a very few pelican images. I concentrated on gulls–primarily adult westerns, Brandt’s Cormorants, and Brown Boobies. <\/p>\n

In the afternoon I did an in-the-field duck-shop (with apologies to E.J. Peiker) at Santee Lakes for a Delkin-sponsored group of seven photographers at Santee Lakes. When I invited them to the trunk of the car to watch me set up and explain a few things, I am pretty sure that they all thought me daft. After nearly 3 hours of learning about exposure in the shade and exposure in the sun, about flight photography, and about creating pleasing blurs, they were all hugs and kisses and doing selfies with me. \ud83d\ude42 Needless to say we had fun and they all learned a ton. <\/p>\n

Diane Miller’s old 300mm f\/2.8L IS sold yesterday; you can see all the Used Photo Gear offerings here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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BIRDS AS ART: The Avian Photography of Arthur Morris<\/h3>\n

At TheNat, San Diego, California
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If you live within two hours driving time of San Diego and you enjoy nature photography you should be in your car early Saturday morning heading to TheNAT for my 9am program. The opening of my solo exhibit, birds as art, The Avian Photography of Arthur Morris<\/em>, will follow the program at about 10:30am. The exhibit will feature 67 of my very favorite images. There are four film images. The remaining 63 images were all captured and recorded on Dekin e-Film compact flash cards. <\/p>\n

Copies of the exhibit companion CD include the 67 images that will hang at TheNAT until April 16, 2016 plus 33 additional images. The CD will be available at the program for $20 and should be up on our website no later than this coming Tuesday.To avoid the hassles of using international mail we will also be offering the e-book via download for our overseas friends. We recently sent two copies of the original The Art of Bird Photography <\/em><\/a> to Chile: took only seven weeks to get there… <\/p>\n

My Saturday morning NATtalk Choosing and Using Lenses for Bird and Nature Photography<\/em> will include about 300 images. The main theme will be that lenses are simply tools and that the longest lens is not always the best for a given job. We will visit many of my favorite spots on the planet and learn about the images that I have created with focal lengths ranging from 8mm through 1200mm. <\/p>\n

Learn more about the gallery show here<\/a>. Learn about the opening NATtalk, Choosing and Using Lenses for Bird and Nature Photography<\/em>, here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Here is another one that was created at La Jolla, CA on Day 2 of the 2016 San Diego IPT, this one with the Induro<\/a> GIT 304L\/Mongoose M3.6<\/a>-mounted Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM lens<\/a> and the Canon EOS 5DS R.<\/a> ISO 500. Evaluative metering +1 2\/3 stops: 1\/250 sec. at f\/5.6. Cloudy WB. <\/p>\n

Center AF point (Manual selection)\/AI Servo Expand\/Rear Focus AF as originally framed was active at the moment of exposure. This is a very small crop from the right and the bottom. The active AF point was on the spot where the gray of the neck meets the white. Click here<\/a> to see the latest version of the Rear Focus Tutorial. Click on the image to see the incredible fine feather detail in a larger version. <\/p>\n

Brown Pelican scratching<\/strong><\/h2>\n