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This breeding plumage Cattle Egret image was created with the the tripod-mounted Canon 800mm f/5.L IS lens, the 2XIII teleconverter, and the Canon EOS-1D Mark IV. ISO 400. Evaluative metering at -1/3 stop: 1/800 sec. at f/11 in Manual mode. Fill flash at -1 stop with my brand new Canon Speedlite 600EX-RT and […] What’s Up? Same old same old. Down by the lake this morning and a 3/4 mile + swim every afternoon. This blog post took several weeks and then about five more hours today to prepare. Please leave any questions on the new methodology as a Comment. IPT Updates I now have four folks for […] What’s Up? Not much. I have spent lots of time relaxing for the past two days and have been doing my 3/4 mile swim each afternoon in delightful weather. I do get down to the lake at ILE each morning for a short photo session. This morning I was trying out a new ballhead with […] Stuff I had so much fun at DeSoto on the Spring IPT that I have decided to run a (short-notice) Spring Sandbar Secrets DeSoto IPT: May 5-through the morning session on May 8, 2019 (3 1/2 days). Scroll down for details. I will go with one participant … Airport pick-up, riding with the leader, and […] What’s Up Friday April 19 did turn out to be a wild weather day. It began with mixed clouds and sun and a pretty stiff south wind. We did great with a fairly tame flock of Red Knot and several other shorebirds species. Red Knot, Calidris canutus, is listed as near-threatened on the IUCN Red […] What’s Up? The free Wednesday morning session went very well as we enjoyed mixed sun and clouds. We had a single young spoonbill, more than a few gorgeous White Ibises, and lots of breeding plumage Laughing Gulls flying, fishing, and bathing in sweet early morning light. We had the Fort DeSoto IPT Meet and Greet […] What’s Up I got a goodbye gift from Texas, a traffic ticket for “failing to follow a traffic control device.” This happened as we pulled into the Valley Airport at about 8:30am. The young, very nervous officer explained that I was going 51mph in a 45mph zoned but that there was some sort of blinking […] What’s Up As I type, Anita North and I are on our way from Roma to HRL, Valley International Airport, in Harlingen, TX. We connect in Houston and then continue on to Orlando. Jim will be picking us up late this afternoon. We will be meeting San Diego IPT veteran and my seemingly long-lost brother, […] What’s Up? Mornings on the Ramirez Ranch have gotten progressively better with Friday morning the best so far. Under cloudy skies we had many many chances with Green Jay, Long-billed Thrasher, Golden-fronted Woodpecker, and White-tipped Dove. And we photographed our first Bronzed Cowbird, sleek black with a bright red iris. In the afternoon, two Lark […] What’s Up? Anita North and I have been working like dogs in the midday Texas heat. We’ve had some good chances and DAY 2 was better than DAY 1 — more birds, more species, better set-ups. Creating a feeder set-up is a long, exacting, and arduous endeavor. The best way to sum it up is […] What’s Up? Too tired on Sunday evening to finish packing I set my alarm for 3:25am and as always, woke before the alarm. My pick-up was for 4:45am but the drivers always arrive early since they have no idea in the world where Indian Lake Estates is. By 4:30 I was finished packing and in […] What’s Up? I am 100% convinced that NPS repaired my 600 VR (to some degree) but that the TC-E14 that they repaired was the problem all along. When I tried creating sharp images with the 600 VR and the repaired TC, the sharpness issues remained. So I tried my back-up TC-E14 instead. I focus Fine-tuned […] What’s Up I woke early today, WED 3 APR, and will be heading down to the lake when the sun comes up to set out some road kill and do some further testing with the Nikon gear that was returned from NPS. See more on that situation below. I have settled on swimming 3/4 mile […] What’s Up? I spent Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning with Donette Largay setting up her Canon 5D Mark III and working on improving her in-the-field skills. We photographed the young and adult Sandhill Cranes, Osprey, and both species of vulture that came to a road-killed snake that I put out. Donette’s biggest problems were with […] What’s Up? Sigmon and Sadako Whitener drove in the dark from Sarasota to ILE on Friday morning to partake of the baby cranes. They were glad that they did. “The pleasure was ours! It was great fun.” We did well with the two rapidly growing colts and great with the smaller chicks. They also enjoyed […] What’s Up The sun finally came out this morning and the baby cranes were great. A couple is coming from Sarasota tomorrow (FRI 29 MAR) for a morning crane session, and blog regular Donnette Largay is coming up to ILE from Palm Beach on Saturday for an afternoon and a following morning instructional session; she […] What’s Up? On a clousy Monday morning past, the brilliant Micheal Tapes (creator of LensAlign MK II & FocusTune) came by with friend Dennis Huff. Despite the overcast weather we had good luck with the smaller-but-growing-fast pair of crane chicks and with the pair of larger colts. Both have become quite dependable. After our session […] What’s Up? On Saturday I went to Gatorland to work with Ron M. Owen, a preacher now living in Orlando. He was born in Winter Haven, FL, just up the road form Lake Wales. In short, Gatorland was pretty lousy and working with Ron was pretty wonderful. Many of the easy and accessible Great Egrets […] What’s Up? I went back down to the lake on Friday morning on a gorgeous day. Armed only with the Nikon 500 PF, the back-up TC-E14, and my back-up D850 I did quite well. There was a 250 bird-feeding spree consisting of about 200+ breeding plumage Great Egrets and an assortment of other herons and […] What’s Up? On Wednesday, after Patrick Sparkman spotted something in a RAW file that I had sent to him and others, I re-focus fined-tuned my main D850 body with the TC-E14 and the 600 VR, the combo that had been giving the biggest problems in terms of sharpness. Patrick suggested a change in my micro-adjusting […] |
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