2018 « Arthur Morris/BIRDS AS ART

Nikon 600mm f/4 VR Sharpness Issues Resolved. Off to Roma, TX. And Anything New

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Me, very early on Sunday 7 APR. I need to pack today as I am being picked up at 4:45am on Monday morning to get to MCO (Orlando International Airport) in time to make my 8am flights to the Rio Grande Valley. After two days of setting up the set-ups, three folks will […]

Ecstasy, SONY News, Answers, and a new system/focal length/ISO quiz ...

What’s Up?

The new laptop is up and running. It is quite a bit faster than my old one. Photo Mechanic, Photoshop, and Capture One v.11 are all installed and running smoothly. Next on the schedule is to restore NeatImage …I am eating and feeling great and doing lots of swimming and lots of walking. […]

Flight Poses and Wings Positions: Part I of Many. And a killer forward-facing/turning left flight image made with the 500 PF/TC-E14/D850 Rig

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Setting up a new computer is never without challenges. I have already downloaded and installed Photo Mechanic and Photoshop (Adobe Photoshop CC/20.0.3 release). I got my samandmayasgrandpa e-mail address set up in Apple Mail. All of the above after many, many hours of phone support and re-setting passwords. As I type, I am […]

White on White Exposure Principles. And Japan Swan Walking

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I will be away for almost a month while leading the 2018/2019 Falklands land-based IPT. I should be back in the office (and back in the pool) on the afternoon of Monday, January 14, 2019. Happy new year! I should have good internet access until Friday December 21 and then again on the weekend […]

BPN Members Rocking It in Avian!

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I will be away for almost a month while leading the 2018/2019 Falklands land-based IPT. I should be back in the office (and back in the pool) on the afternoon of Monday, January 14, 2019. Happy new year! I should have good internet access until Friday December 21 and then again on the weekend […]

Always Look for an Edge ...

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I will be away for almost a month while leading the 2018/2019 Falklands land-based IPT. I should be back in the office (and back in the pool) on the afternoon of Monday, January 14, 2019. Happy new year! I should have good internet access until Friday December 21 and then again on the weekend […]

Season's Greetings Jiggle Blur

Season’s Greetings

Jim and Jennifer and I send our best wishes to you and yours for a wonderful holiday season filled with love, sharing, and some quality photography. Have a great 2019 filled with the same, good health, and lots of nachas.

Nachas: a Yiddish word meaning that you are happy and proud, especially […]

Nikon 500 PF for Birds in Flight (from the Icebreaker!)

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I will be away for almost a month while leading the 2018/2019 Falklands land-based IPT. I should be back in the office (and back in the pool) on the afternoon of Monday, January 14, 2019. Happy new year! I should have good internet access until Friday December 21 and then again on the weekend […]

Great Bosque News. How to Make Money as a Bird Photographer. And a great kids art book for adult photographers!

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I will be away for almost a month while leading the 2018/2019 Falklands land-based IPT. I should be back in the office (and back in the pool) on the afternoon of Monday, January 14, 2019. Happy new year! I should have good internet access until Friday December 21 and then again on the weekend […]

BIRDS AS ART B&H Essential Gear Bags. And a Great Start With a Trip to the Coast.

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We left the hotel at 5:30am and headed Northwest by van to the coast at Vina del Mar. We began the Falklands land-based IPT with a bang on our safety layover day with lots of great Inca Tern and Peruvian Pelican images. We had huge feeding sprees of Peruvian Boobies and Guanay Cormorants. There […]

Falkland Islands Land-based IPT Gear Bag. And my Cold Weather Footwear Solution-- Insanity for some, perfect for me!

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The pool was down to a chilly 73 degrees on Wednesday afternoon. I did take a swim in the morning on what is get-away day for Steve Rentmeesters and me. Steve arrived on Monday afternoon and we enjoyed some excellent close-up Sandhill crane photography on Tuesday and Wednesday morning and on Tuesday afternoon as […]

Patrick Sparkman Rocks La Jolla with the Nikon 200-500 (and the TC-E14 III)!

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I will be away for almost a month while leading the 2018/2019 Falklands land-based IPT. I fly to Miami on the afternoon of WED 19 DEC and then catch a red-eye flight to Santiago, Chile. I should be back in the office on the afternoon of Monday, January 14, 2019. Happy new year! I […]

Student Outdoes Teacher on Rare Bird with the Teacher's Old Favorite Toy Lens ... With a TC in Place! A Miraculous Repair Job. And a Bargain Basement House-cleaning Garage Gear Sale.

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The pool was up to a balmy 79 degrees on Saturday afternoon and I am up to 50 lengths, a bit more than half a mile. I am in the early stages of thinking about the big Falklands Ground-based IPT. I fly from Orlando to MIA o Wednesday afternoon and catch a red-eye flight […]

A Little Bit of Bosque History ...

A Little Bit of Bosque History …

If you have been to or are thinking of visiting Bosque del Apache NWR near San Antonio, New Mexico, you might want to learn a little bit of Bosque history by clicking here. Scroll down to see two of my BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year-honored (film) images. […]

A Rare DeSoto Visitor. Perhaps the Dawn of a Whole New World ... And some great new Used Gear listings!

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The pool was down to 75 for my Tuesday afternoon swim. By Wednesday morning it was down to 70 degrees. It warmed up a bit for my Wednesday and Thursday afternoon swims.

I was thrilled the other day to learn that first-timer Shonagh Adelman of Chattanooga, TN signed up for the 2019 Puffins […]

A Miraculous Color Temperature Save of the Sickly Yellow Original. And the ISO Answer.

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We enjoyed a fine last morning on the Early Winter (it felt like it at times!) Fort DeSoto IPT. We had two minutes of sweet light on some sandbar White Pelicans, more chances to practice tern and gull blurs, and a nice flock of Laughing Gulls and Sandwich and Forster’s Terns. We did the […]

What's the ISO?

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It was cloudy dark and very windy on Sunday morning. We started out with some neat pleasing blur opportunities and then headed to my favorite morning backup location. The birds were right where I expected them. As it had started to spit cold rain pretty good we made sure to work with our back […]

Simplicity ... And The Eyes Have It!

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I began working on this blog post early on Friday morning. I will be walking out the door in five minutes at 6:05am to begin the Early Winter Fort DeSOto IPT. Things are looking decent with the forecast for mostly clear skies and northeast winds. Those are a lot better than northwest winds in […]

Hard to Believe. And Announcing the iPhone Photography e-Guide by Doctor Cliff Oliver

Yours truly at the opening of my FEB 2016 exhibit at the San Diego Natural History Museum Image copyright 2016: Dr. Cliff Oliver My First iPhone Amazement

The first time that I ever took a second look at an iPhone image was when Cliff Oliver showed me the pano that he created […]

2018 BAA Top Twenty Images: Part I of IV. Announcing the 2018 B&H/BAA Holiday Bird Photography Contest!

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After being down to as low as 70 degrees about a week ago, the pool was up to a balmy 85 degrees today. I did my usual slow half mile in the afternoon. When I got out of the pool I noticed a foraging flock of small songbirds high in the trees that border […]