2025 « Arthur Morris/BIRDS AS ART

Is Sony's Zebra Technology Really That Important?

Wanted to Buy

Looking for a Sony a-9 iii in Excellent plus or better condition for a friend. If you have one that you would like to sell, please shoot me an e-mail to samandmayasgrandpa@att.net and I will put you in touch with the potential buyer.

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Handsome Young Common Terns and Black Skimmers

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For the first time in as long as I can remember, I am currently laptop-less. I sent my MackBook Pro M1 to Memphis, TN by Fed-Ex on Monday. As I never look at or work my images on a desktop computer, I will be keeping everything from my morning shooting sessions on Delkin […]

Nickerson Beach in Summer Video. Learn Bird Photography From the Best: BIRDS AS ART Educational Opportunities

Nickerson Beach Summer Bird Photography

There are several thousand pairs of beach nesting birds at Nickerson Beach every summer including Common Terns, Black Skimmers, American Oystercatchers, and Piping Plover. Nearly all of the terns and skimmers are in one of two colonies that are about 400 yards apart. There are lots of chicks and […]

The Extraordinary Life and Story of Dr. Greg Gulbransen. And Two Images You Could Not Make on a Cloudy Morning

After accidentally killing his toddler son, Dr. Greg Gulbransen set out to help not just patients but strangers. “Feeling needed, feeling useful, feeling important—they’ve helped me hide the demons,” he says.

A Family Doctor’s Search for Salvation by Joshua Rothman A Family Doctor’s Search for Salvation

Long time readers are familiar with […]

The Complete and Quintessential Guide to Photographing Birds in Flight By Arash Hazeghi and Arthur Morris

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With zero comments at the last blog post (until early WED morning), I am wondering if folks are getting the Newsletter post notifications. If you received the post notification via e-mail, please be so kind as the RSVP by clicking here and hitting send. Not much effort is required. Thanks.

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Two Fabulous 400-800 Images Including a GBH with a Greater Siren. And a YouTube Video: Gripping the 400-800

How to Grip the Sony 400-800mm f/6.3-8 G Lens by Arthur Morris/BIRDS AS ART

In this video, I detail the proper way to grip the Sony 400mm lens and share a brand new flight photography tip as well. Using a super-telephoto zoom lens might seem a simple proposition to many. But in four months, […]

Beating the Summer Doldrums with the Sony 400-800 f/6.3-8 G Super-telephoto Zoom Lens. An In-Stock Sony Miracle

In the Last Blog Post

In the last blog post, I liked both images equally, the first for the unusual wings down display flight pose and the second for the neat dorsal view. I needed the square crop for the second image because I failed to follow my own oft-given advice: “Pan faster.” Thus, the […]

Solving the Bird Photography Sky & Wind Conditions Puzzle Every Day. Delkin Black 960GB CF Express A Cards on Sale.

Conditions Question

Early on a sunny morning in early summer on the east coast of the USA, why is a north wind much better for bird photography than a wind from the south?

Be sure to scroll down to the bottom to Your Call and a Question and take a crack at two additional […]

Sebastian Inlet Ospreys & More BAA In-the-Field Sessions

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I headed down to the lake early on a hot hazy Monday morning at Indian Lake Estates. The wind was fairly strong from the south and there was not much to photograph other than some of the local Sandhill Cranes. There was one four month old colt with its parents but they all […]

Nobody Had a Clue ...

Sony Price Increases

Sony has raised the prices of the a-1 and a-1 II cameras in the US by $400.00 and $500.000 respectively (along with the prices of many other cameras, lenses, and accessories), seemingly in response to increased import tariffs. I was unable to find any details regarding the import tariffs.

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11,000,000 Over-Exposed Pixels. Keep or Insta-delete?

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Vasili Chernishoff and I continue to enjoy countless opportunities on the Huguenot Memorial Park/Jacksonville Royal Terns and Chicks and More Extended IPT. More and more tern chicks continue to move from the colony to the open beaches. There is tons of flight photography with the adults bringing in fish of all kinds, squid, […]

Purity, the Tern Antennae Moustache, & the 82% Crop!

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The tern chicks are beginning to move down to the beach and it is a record year for the production of young Royal Terns. And photography continues to be excellent. On a cloudy Sunday afternoon, Vasili went off on his own to try for “blue water Backgrounds” while I opted to remain at […]

Revisiting an Old Friend at Huguenot Memorial Park: the Sony FE 200-600mm f/5.6-6.3 G OSS Lens (with the a-1 ii)

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Morning photography at Huguenot Memorial Park in Jacksonville, FL continues to be fabulous with no wind or a SE breeze instead of the forecast wind from the SW. David and Michele Pugsley headed home after their third great morning. It is the best year for chicks in more than two decades. I have […]

Vasili & Canon Rock the First Jacksonville Morning

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The forecast for the Friday morning past at Huguenot Memorial Park was for partly cloudy with a southwest breeze. Partly cloudy in Florida usually means full sun ten minutes are sunrise and that was the case on the 27th. The good news is that the breeze at the beach was from the southeast […]

Why the Sony 400-800 f/6.3-8 G Lens on a Foggy Morning?

Why the Sony 400-800 on a Foggy Day? by Arthur Morris/BIRDS AS ART

When I first borrowed the Sony 400-800, I assumed that at 5.45 lbs. it was too heavy and that a f/8 on the long end it was too slow for general bird photography. Boy was I wrong. While photographing Roseate Spoonbills […]

The Sony 300mm f/2.8 GM Lens at Nick. Learn by Comparing the Four Originals with the Four Optimized Images

All four images were created on 12 June 2025 at Nickerson Beach Park, Lido Beach, Long Island, New York with the Sony FE 300mm f/2.8 GM OSS Lens (Sony E) with the Sony FE 1.4x Teleconverter and the Latest Greatest Sony Flagship Body, the a1 II Mirrorless Camera.

Common Tern originals Images […]

Least Terns -- On Being Adaptable

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I had a decent morning on Saturday. The stars of the show were a single Black-bellied Whistling Duck and an adult Sandhill Crane south of the pier, both with still blue water backgrounds. I walked the pier with the 400-800 and made a single nice flight image of a backlit young Green Heron […]

Squabbling Common Terns. Samsung 4TB Portable SSHD

Samsung 4TB T7 Shield Portable SSD (Black) BILD EXPO SALE: Save $115.00! Expires June 22, 2025

I double back up my images every day using a 4TB SSHD. If you are not backing up your work, it is only a matter of time until you lose all of your images. The Samsung 4TB T7 […]

Belated Birthday and Father's Day Gift of a Morning

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After getting drenched on my birthday, we headed back to Nickerson on Sunday morning. It was cold and a little bit wet with a brisk northeast wind. At times, I had the chills. But the photography was fantastic and the tern chicks got fed many times; there was lots of action. Note: photographing […]

Nickerson Beach Early Season Overview and a Wet Birthday!

iPhone 15 Pro Max back triple camera 2.22mm f/2.2: ISO 1250: 1/30 sec at f/2.2.

Birthday cake, no […]