2015 « Arthur Morris/BIRDS AS ART

For the 5DS R Non-believers. Additional thoughts on the camera. And 5DS R help needed...

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All of the image captions for the San Diego exhibit have been finished, and the Western Digital 2TB My Passport Ultra Portable Hard Drive (Black) with the properly size TIFFs arrived at Fine Print Imaging in Fort Collins, CO on Friday afternoon; two big projects completed. All that while working hard with the […]

Icebreaker... And an insane 400 DO Price Reduction!

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I sent a Western Digital 2TB My Passport Ultra Portable Hard Drive (Black) with the 67 exhibit images on it to Mark Lukes at Fine Print Imaging in Fort Collins, CO. The prints will be ready to go to San Diego to be matted and framed by the middle of next week. Hooray. […]

The Continuation... And “It’s not bragging if you can do it”

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Yesterday was one of those rare days where lots of wonderful things happened and weeks of hard work paid off in spades. The latter several times over.

In the morning I tried to call Shawn Marie Greene, the 1979 sixth grade student of mine at PS 106 in the Bushwick section of […]

Simple Bosque Sunrise Tip

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Did lots more work on the San Diego exhibit and helped a lot of folks interested in joining me on the last-ever Cheesemans’ South Georgia Expedition. Click here to learn the whole story and for all the details on this great trip that will also be my last ship-based trip to the Falklands […]

Belligerent Little Bugger/More 100-400II Versatility. And Tons of Great Used Gear Buys!

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I am feeling a bit better each day. I still have a very long to-do list….

Selling Your Used Gear Through BIRDS AS ART

Selling your used (or like-new) photo gear through the BAA Blog or via a BAA Online Bulletin is a great idea. We charge only a 5% […]

Fortunate in the Snow at Fortuna Bay, South Georgia With Another But Far Less Serious Accident...

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On Sunday I did more work on the San Diego Exhibit image caption labels and watched a ton of NFL football. By blowing yet another large fourth quarter lead the NY Giants put an end to their season. Bummer.

Stay tuned as tomorrow I will be listing several new Used Photo Gear […]

Running in Place in Flight ??? Going Light for Flight with the Hand Held 400 DO II, the 2X III TC, and the EOS-1D X.

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I did lots of work on the San Diego exhibit labels and answered lots of e-mails on the Cheeseman’s 2016 South Georgia/Falklands Expedition; we have already signed up three or four folks for the BIRDS AS ART group. Do consider joining us for the trip of a lifetime, my last ship-based trip to […]

Hard to Believe: An End to the Best... And Hard to Believe Beauty...

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I enjoyed a long day of hard work and enjoyed sleeping in my own bed. I still have my cold. Yesterday I did something that I should have done weeks ago: on the advice of Dr. Cliff Oliver I purchased a steam inhaler and inhalant pads (at CVS) and enjoyed three 15 minutes […]

The EOS 5DS R is no good for photographing birds in flight! Or is it?

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Actually me, at 3am on Thursday. My 6:05am flight to Houston was a piece of cake. My flight to Orlando was delayed for an hour (maintenance) and then for another hour when Southwest realized that our new aircraft had too much fuel loaded. I was on the ground at MCO at about 3:30 […]

Elegance Defined...

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When we first approached our chosen morning spot we were dismayed to see dozens of other cars and lots of photographers where there had been nobody but us for three straight mornings. Other tour leaders and small photo groups often follow me around or see us when they are scouting. As we got […]

Stately Pelican Pose w/200-400 with internal extender engaged and strange EXIF...

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Again co-leader Denise Ippolito and I had our group positioned perfectly for sunrise, and again, the birds put on a great show. There was another photo group two hundred yards to our right but our chances were far better than theirs for a hundred reasons. Everyone else was completely in the wrong place. […]

Messing Around: 600 II/2X III TC/EOS-5DS R...

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Photographic opportunities continue to improve each day at Bosque del Apache NWR. Monday was amazing as we enjoyed several mega-blast-offs. After a nice sunrise with a fly out blast-off we did well at the crane pools and then headed to the farm fields. The birds were in all over a huge field and […]

Geese along the tour loop road...

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Co-leader Denise Ippolito and I had the group in perfect position for a big white geese fly-in the extremely overcast conditions. After that there was tons of great teaching and not a lot of great photography except for a huge group of blackbirds that entertained us for 15 minutes. When I went back […]

You Cannot Photograph Birds With Infrared... Why IR in this Situation?

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I began wrapping this one up at 6:33pm on Saturday November 28, 2015. Denise Ippolito and I met our second IPT group and cancelled the meet and greet so that we could head right down to the refuge as things looked promising. We were rewarded with farm field blast off after farm field […]

Bosque Gear Bag With Comments/Using all the clubs in your bag & Canon EOS-5DS R image cropped more than 50%...

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Other than a few minutes of bumps due to some rough air going in and out of Denver last week, my flights to ABQ on the 20th were long, exhausting, and thankfully un-eventful. I began working on this blog post during my layover in Denver and finished it in Socorro a week later, […]

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Fire & Ice: Bosque Being Bosque...

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I wrote most of this blog post on Thanksgiving Day after a really short but really wonderful morning photo session. With the heavy cloud cover and the strong east wind, I knew that there was only one spot on the refuge that might offer some quality chances. I had been there the day […]

Good News & Happy Bird-Day 2015

Enjoy the holiday and try not to eat too, too much.

Happy Bird-Day 2015

All here at BAA would like to wish you and yours a happy Thanksgiving. My older daughter Jennifer is on Long Island with her whole family visiting her sister–my younger daughter Alissa and her family–along with my […]

Canon EOS-5DS R for Birds: An Overview. I've never seen image files like these...

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I am feeling lot better as I type early on the morning of Wednesday November 25, 2015. I am much less congested but the dry hacking coughing spells that I had off and on yesterday were not fun. My plan is to get a chest X-ray done today.

I will be heading […]

Lunchtime Prediction Comes True.... And Goose ID Challenge

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Bosque was terrible before we arrived but things are looking much better right now. Again I enjoyed a horrific night’s sleep and can finally say that I feel pretty lousy with a stuffed nose, chest congestion, and a dry hacking cough, all of which kept me up most of the night. I gave […]