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What’s Up?<\/h3>\n

I recently sent a review copy of the Southern Ocean Photography Guide to good friend Joe Kaplan, a member of the Cheesemans’ Ecology Safari Expedition staff team. Joe is a birder, zodiac driver, and auctioneer extraordinaire who has been wonderfully helpful to me in many ways on each of my four trips with CES. He is mentioned several times in the e-book. Anywhoo, he e-mailed me on Friday and tells me that none of the hyperlinks in the PDF work. I re-make the PDF but still no luck. <\/p>\n

So I did a search and learned that yes, when you create a PDF from a Microsoft Word for Mac file, you kill the links. (I prefer Word to Pages…) There were dozens of complex sets of instructions on how to get around the problem, none of which I could follow. One mentioned saving the file as a .doc rather than as a .docx so I tried that. Still no luck. Then I decided to get that file onto one of the PCs in the BAA office and try making the PFD there. Good plan but I ran into all sorts of hassles simply getting the file there from my Mac. I finally did that, created the CD in Word, and was thrilled to see that they hyperlinks were active. But every time that I made the PDF I noticed that there were a few untoward formatting errors. I wound up re-doing the PDF about six times after noticing the various errors. Just when I thought that I was done I tried to save my .doc Word file only to have it pop-up: cannot save; read-only file. A phone call to older daughter Jennifer got me past that hurdle: “Dad, just save it with a new name.” That worked, and I was finally, mercifully done. <\/p>\n

The total time to complete a task that should have taken three minutes turned out to be more than five hours. You gotta love it. <\/p>\n

Swam at 12:30, napped at 2pm, and did some knee, shoulder, and core exercises in the early evening. Then I couch-potatoed it on the big UFC event. <\/p>\n

Today I put the finishing touches on my Camera Club of Brevard program. In Keynote; much, much easier than Powerpoint… <\/p>\n

If there is anyone who would like to join my on the Cheesemans’ OCT\/NOV 2016 last-ever South Georgia\/Falklands Expedition please shoot me an e-mail<\/a><\/center>; there are still a very few slots left. <\/p>\n

These Just In<\/h3>\n

#1: See the mega-educational Avian BPN blog post here<\/a>. The subject is one of my very favorite birds. Photo by Adhika Lie. <\/p>\n

#2: I just this minute (7:32am) learned that Gregg Hunt’s 7D Mark II sold for the full asking price this morning. See more on Used Photo Gear stuff below. <\/p>\n

The Streak<\/h3>\n

Today\u2019s blog post marks 90 days in a row with a new educational blog post. Again, please remember to use our B&H links for your major gear purchases. Your doing so is always greatly appreciated. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Thanks to Dan Neri, Len Musmeci, and the Canon Explorers of Light program for their support of the Camera Club of Brevard speaking gig. <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Melbourne EoL Speaking Event<\/h3>\n

On Tuesday, February 2, 2016 I will be presenting “A Bird Photographer’s Story” for the Camera Club of Brevard. The meeting begins at 6:30pm and is free and open to the public. This program is sponsored by Canon USA\/Explorers of Light. A small selection of books and CDs will be available for sale. You can find complete details including the location here<\/a>. <\/p>\n


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This image was created on the first afternoon of the 2016 San Diego IPT with the hand held Canon EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L IS II USM lens<\/a> (at 271mm) and the still amazing Canon EOS 7D Mark II<\/a>. ISO 400: 1\/2500 sec. at f\/8, my standard “bright WHITEs in full sun” exposure. <\/p>\n

One AF point below the center AF point\/AI Servo Expand\/Shutter Button as originally framed was active at the moment of exposure (as is always best when hand holding). Though the lower assist point barely caught the top of the gull’s tail–this is a vertical crop from a horizontal original–the image is sharp on the eye. <\/p>\n

Ring-billed Gull taking flight<\/strong><\/h2>\n