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Stuff Help Still Needed With an AF-S Nikkor 500mm f/5.6 PF Lens If you know of a camera store that has one of these lenses in stock please do not leave a comment. Please call my cell phone at 863-221-2372 or shoot me an e-mail immediately. More on this new lens soon. […] Stuff I watched lots of NFL football yesterday. I view the games using a combination of NFL Season Ticket and Tivo. I blew lots of balloons and did get around to testing a new ballhead system that turned out to be pretty neat. I will be sharing more on that here fairly soon. Help […] Stuff I spent most of Friday watching the TIVO of Tiger Wood’s first PGA tour victory in five years. And blowing lots of balloons. This blog post took more than four hours to prepare. News on the Galapagos Front/Limit 12/Openings: 3 Right now I have nine folks committed to the 2019 Galapagos Photo […] Stuff The DeSoto IPT ended with lone participant Ed Dow and I sitting in six inches of warm saltwater photographing some tame spoonbills in still blue water … More on Ed in a future blog post. Help Needed With an AF-S Nikkor 500mm f/5.6 PF Lens If you know of a camera store that […] Stuff Tuesday morning started off really slow at DeSoto. I did well at 840mm on the tripod with flying Laughing Gulls. On the way back to the car we found some ibises and ducks in a big rain pool and spent a productive hour with them. We all came up with some really near bathing […] Stuff We lucked out on Sunday afternoon as the wind switched from east to west. We enjoyed two hours of flat calm silky blue water background bird photography. Ed Dow did great getting low and approaching the birds slowly. We photographed lots of shorebirds including Short-billed Dowitcher, Ruddy Turnstone, Sanderling, Wilson’s and Semipalmated Plovers, Least […] Stuff As noted yesterday, we had a killer-good morning at DeSoto and as expected, a great working lunch at the Neptune Grill in Gulfport. Our Airbnb condo is absolutely wonderful. A big low tide revealed a substantial fish kill along a creek that leads into the lagoon. The number of different species of fish […] Never Too Late On Saturday, September 22, 2018, multiple IPT veteran Indranil Sircar, newbie Ed Dow, Amy Novotny, and I enjoyed one of the greatest-ever mornings at Fort DeSoto. As we made our way to the Gulf we were met with a huge feeding spree with many thousands of pelicans gulls, terns, herons, and shorebirds […] Stuff I spent much of Thursday getting ready to head over to Tierra Verde for the upcoming six-day Fort DeSoto road trip. We will be driving over after lunch. Trivia Who is two-four-six-oh-one? News on the Galapagos Photo-Cruise of a Lifetime Limit: 12/Openings: 3 Right now I have nine folks committed to the 2019 […] Stuff The Zebra Swallowtail did not return on Tuesday. I walked an easy 4.6 miles in three sessions. The left knee continues to improve. I was glad to learn that Will Craig sold his original Canon EOS 7D camera body in excellent condition (with fewer than 26,000 actuations) for $299.00 soon after it was listed […] Why I Go With One … My long-time policy has always been to go with one photographer on US IPTs. Why? If you are interested enough in learning and are willing to take time off from work and travel (often by air) to the location, I never want to disappoint you. That is true even […] Stuff It was a weekend of walking and treatments and lots of football. And more than a few folks wrote seeking gear advice so that kept me a bit busy. If you would like to photograph puffins from close range and in flight next summer do consider signing up for the just-announced IPT below as […] Stuff I found a beautiful feather on my morning walk and spent about an hour photographing it. What fun. Have you ever lost ten days or a month’s worth of images? I have. If you would like to avoid doing that or something similar, keep reading. If you would like to join me at Fort […] Biggest-ever Fort DeSoto Fall IPT Late-Registration Discounts It’s not too late. Just hop on a Southwest flight to Tampa (TPA) and learn more about bird photography than you could have ever imagined. If you would like to explore the possibility of doing just that, consider joining me at Fort DeSoto next week for either the […] Stuff Wednesday was business as usual. With my knee continuing to improve, I am walking two to three easy miles each day concentrating on form: belly out, shoulders back and down, chin down, and striking first with the heel. This blog post took 2 1/2 hours to prepare on Thursday morning. It is now 9am […] Stuff On Monday afternoon I spotted a Walking Stick on the pool cage. Closer inspection showed that there was a small male atop what I assumed to be the much larger (about five inches in length) female. I corralled them onto a stick, set the stick up with a Plamp in the shade along the […] Stuff Been watching lots of sports on the tube and on TIVO this weekend. The BMW Championship, the US Open tennis, and lots of NFL games coming this afternoon on NFL package I was glad to learn that Amy Novotny’s Nikon TC-E-20 (teleconverter) sold the first day it was listed. Both Fall […] Stuff It monsooned again here on Friday afternoon. Used Gear Page News After a month or so in the summer doldrums, sales on the Used Gear page have been red hot for the past month: Richard Gollar sold his Canon EF 500mm f/4 L IS (the original IS model, the “old five”) in near-mint […] Stuff My work on my 2017 taxes is finished. All data and printouts are being sent to my accountant today. Both Fall Fort DeSoto IPTs are wide open — scroll down for more info. Details for the 2019 UK Puffins and Gannets IPT […] Stuff I got a lot more work done on Tuesday on my 2017 taxes; the end is in sight … Details for the 2019 UK Puffins and Gannets IPT will be announced here soon. We will be visiting Seahouses for the puffins and other seabirds and both Bempton Cliffs and Dunbar (two boat trips) for […] |
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