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What’s Up? On a clear Tuesday morning — it had been a while since the sun had been out early — the Cattle Egrets continued feeding voraciously on the large, golden mayfly hatch. The more I photograph this situation, the more I realize how difficult it is. I enjoyed a 1058-image morning and kept 81 […] What’s Up? My two photo hunting trips yesterday were fairly successful with cranes and Cattle Egrets on the menu. There was huge hatch of the large mayflies three days ago. It took the Cattle Egrets a day to find them but for the last two days as many as a hundred of the small white […] What’s Up? The Sunday morning forecast was way off the mark. Rather than clear and sunny with increasing SW winds as predicted, it turned out to be bright overcast and with a gentle wind from the east. It would have been a perfect morning for setting up my vulture feeder … Instead, I spent some […] What’s Up? I spent about an hour on Saturday morning photographing Old Gnarly’s family feeding in the South Field — Old Gnarly, it’s mate, and their small colt (that is doing just fine). I finally am sure that Old Gnarly’s mate has a bad right foot. The sun is supposed to be out this morning […] What’s Up? Friday morning was way dark. It started off slower than slow so I went to my favorite grassy rise and put out some salmon skins, four eggshells, a ribeye bone, and a pork chop bone. I set up the 600 on the tripod with the a9 II in hopes of some vulture flight. […] What’s Up? Thursday morning did turn out to be cloudy-dark. I created lots of perched vulture images along with some Old Gnarly family images, all at high ISO, to send to Arash Hazeghi for the new SONY Capture One e-Guide he is working on. He can use even lousy images to create various best conversion […] What’s Up? Thursday morning started out cloudy but by 8:15 the sun was out. I did a nice adult sandhill in the marsh, some GBH 1200mm head portraits from the car, and finally had some vultures come to my smoked salmon skin feeder. The afternoon had some promise for a nice sunset but that fizzled. […] What’s Up? More of the same — two photo trips down to the lake yesterday and a nice swim. Keep reading to learn how I did on Tuesday morning. It was 90 degrees by yesterday afternoon. I forgot to mention that when I was at the post office on Monday, I learned of two COVID-19 […] What’s Up? I just took a peek out the back door and saw a hazy half-moon so there is lots of moisture in the air and it seems quite still. It might be a good morning for flower photography. I will head down to the lake early this morning, Tuesday 14 APR 2020. I enjoyed […] What’s Up? Same old, same old. I did some nice flowers on Sunday morning. After my early morning photo session today, Monday 13 APR 2020, I need to go to town for a bit of shopping and a trip to the bank. Have fun and stay safe. Thanks to all who commented on the […] What’s Up? Groundhog Day. Every day. Up early. Down to the lake. Work on the SONY guide. Work on photos. Speak to both my daughters. Swim. And two meals. Recently I have been watching reruns of the Masters golf tournament. In a normal year, we would be watching the winner get his green jacket in […] What’ Up? Friday morning was cloudy dark so I did lots of high ISO stuff. I am sending lots of SONY RAW (ARW) files (especially those created with higher ISO values) to Arash Hazeghi who will be creating Capture One noise reduction (NR) values for the four main SONY bodies (I believe); he feels that […] What’ Up? Me, early again. I was down at the lake both morning (cloudy) and afternoon (sunny). It was not the greatest of days, but I had fun and made some good images including a very few good ones. With the pool at a steady 82 degrees, swimming has been a pleasure. I spent […] What’s Up? Me early. Listening to alternative-view COVID-19 videos. I’ve been swimming every day without a miss. I’ll be heading down to the lake early today, Thursday 9 APR 2020 despite another less than ideal forecast; partly cloudy with west winds. Yesterday’s lousy forecast yielded a great session … What They Are Buying The BAA […] What’s Up? Tuesday was mixed clouds and sun all day long. I went down to the lake early, had a few fair chances on Cattle Egret and Old Gnarly with its still-tiny chick, and did some feather close-ups on an adult crane. With a nice northeast wind and the sun out, I set up for […] What’s Up While the crane colt family is complete and healthy, they have foiled my efforts to make a great image or two of them swimming. The first two times that I saw them crossing I was late and out of position. On Sunday morning pst, they did not swim across the canal until 9:15am […] What’s Up? It’s cloudy here again today, Monday 6 APR 2020. I took yesterday afternoon off from photography as it was drizzling. I spent about 2 1/2hours alternating between crying and sobbing watching Forrest Gump on TIVO. I had not watched it in at least a dozen years. I had totally forgotten what an amazing […] What’s Up After being red-hot for days, photography at ILE has slowed down just a bit. I did get the cranes swimming on Saturday morning but that afternoon yielded only some Black Vulture images; several were on a lawn picking away at a fish that had been dropped by an Osprey that had been perched […] What’s Up? Friday morning was not too good for photography. I had hoped to photograph the crane colt family crossing the canal. But instead of the cranes appearing, a car with two fishermen appeared and parked right at the point, right where I had seen them cross twice. So I messed around with some vultures, […] What’s Up? I’ve been spending lots of time with the crane colt family, two adult Sandhill Cranes with Orangey Colt and Gray Colt. I have been learning a ton about their behavior and may just be on the verge of creating some really special stuff of the whole family swimming … Yes, swimming. With luck, […] |
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