After my morning photo session I watched lots of golf, swam, did my bursts and Stairmaster, and ate too much sweet stuff. The afternoon temperature on the pool deck was 104 F. The pool is now a delightful 80 degrees.<\/p>\n
The forecast for this morning — Sunday 9 AUGUST 2020 — is for gorgeous, still, and sunny. Since it did not rain at all yesterday, I will head back down to the lake. I did find a third large colt with the adults yesterday; I was not sure where it came from …<\/p>\n
I completed the first draft of the RawDigger e-Guide and sent a few copies out to be reviewed. When I get back from shooting this morning, I will be creating an ILE 2020 JULY folder, doing a third edit, and watching the rest of the PGA Championship. I am rooting for Brooks Koepka but Dustin Johnson will be hard to beat if he plays as well as he did yesterday. The public course, Harding Park in San Francisco is — as it should be — very difficult. <\/p>\n
\n| \n | This image was created on the morning of 8 AUGUST 2020 at Indian Lake Estates. Walking with the cranes on the North Field, I used the handheld Sony FE 200-600mm f\/5.6-6.3 G OSS lens<\/a> (at 600mm) and the blazingly fast AF King, the Sony Alpha a9 II Mirrorless Digital camera body.<\/a> ISO 500. Exposure determined by Zebras with ISO on the rear wheel: 1\/640 sec. at f\/6.3 in Manual mode; the exposure was confirmed as perfect by RawDigger. AWB at 7:25:39am on a sunny morning. <\/p>\n Upper Zone AF-C was active at the moment of exposure and performed superbly; the system selected an AF point on the base of the bird’s chin right on the same plane as its eye. <\/p>\n |