On Saturday morning Anita and I explored Outback Key to the very end on a super-low tide. With the dreary conditions, we concentrated on creating pleasing blurs of the tern, shorebird, and gull flocks blasting off. We had plenty of those. Late on what was a cloudy morning I sat on the beach and butt-wiggled close enough to isolate single Red Knots with the 200-600\/1.4X TC, and the a9 ii. The versatility of the 2-6 continues to amaze me. <\/p>\n
On Saturday evening we had a wonderful dinner in our Gulfport AirBNB apartment with our super-hosts, Warren and Dawn. Anita did a great job with the grilled jumbo shrimp and portobello mushrooms with a brown sugar\/soy sauce\/balsamic vinegar glaze. Warren and Dawn brought a box of chocolate-coated macadamia nuts for dessert. There were twelve of them. Anita had two, Dawn had one, and Warren did not eat any. Someone emptied the box but I am not saying who ..<\/p>\n
On Sunday morning, the overnight rain continued. We packed up and were in the car by 7:00am heading back to ILE. In the rain. <\/p>\n
\n| \n | This image was created on 2 OCT 2020 at Fort DeSoto Park. I used the handheld Sony FE 200-600mm f\/5.6-6.3 G OSS lens<\/a> (at 353mm), the Sony FE 1.4x Teleconverter<\/a>, and the blazingly fast AF king, the Sony Alpha a9 II Mirrorless Digital Camera<\/a>. ISO 5000. Exposure determined by Zebras with ISO on the rear wheel: 1\/2000 sec. at f\/10 in Manual mode. AWB at 9:05am on cloudy morning. <\/p>\n Tracking Flexible Spot (M) Continuous AF was active at the moment of exposure and performed perfectly. <\/p>\n Be sure to click on the image to see a larger version. <\/p>\n |