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What’s Up? I did not have much photographic success on Friday morning but will try again today — Saturday 29 AUGUST 2020. I took the whole day off from exercising yesterday but will be back in the pool and on the StairMaster today. Patrick Sparkman will be reviewing the RawDigger e-Guide this weekend so it […] What’s Up? On Thursday morning, it was nothing but cranes and there were not too many of them. But using a spray and pray approach, I did create one really good image thanks in part to SONY’s amazing AF system. I will share the full story in a blog post here soon. The forecast […] What’s Up? On Wednesday morning it dawned still and cloudy so I started off photographing flowers in our butterfly garden. I was planning on working for only a few minutes and then heading down to the lake to check out the birds. But I wound up staying for more than an hour. By the time […] What’s Up? After several days of work, I sent a final review copy of the almost-finished RawDigger e-Guide to Patrick Sparkman via Hightail last night. The forecast is as usual here at ILE today — Tuesday 25 AUGUST 2020: sunny turning cloudy and hot with afternoon thunderstorms. As it has not rained hard here […] What’s Up? I spent some quality time with the Mother’s Day colt and its folks this morning, again being sure to stay on the road. I am almost finished with the RawDigger e-Guide. I was glad to see that almost all of the price-slashed items sold within a day or two including and especially […] What’s Up? I drove to Tiger Creek Preserve on Saturday morning and never even got my gear out. There were hundreds of Partridge Pea blossoms, but all were spent and falling apart. I continued on to Ridge Audubon Center and photographed what I think is Southeastern Sunflower. This morning — Sunday 23 AUGUST 2020 — […] What’s Up? Friday was the worst morning for photography at ILE since I began self-isolating here on 22 MARCH. I photographed flower clusters on a sumac bush and made a very few not-too-good crane images. Blooming flowers are scarce. I will leave at about 6:30am today — Saturday 22 AUGUST 2020, head over to Tiger […] What’s Up? On Thursday morning I was lucky with the birds. I got some nice stuff on a female Boat-tailed Grackle perched on Blazing Star, an adult Osprey perched in the open on a bare branch, and a Great Blue Heron hunting on a small dock. And I was very lucky that I did not […] What’s Up? Me early as usual. I am pretty sure that I will not finish this blog post before my morning photo session, swim, and brunch as I have been working on it for five hours already and still have lots to do … It is 6:30 now and Just realized that I have several […] What’s Up? Since I began swimming again after my recent head cold, I’ve been getting into the pool after my morning photo session and before my intermittent fasting brunch (aka breakfast). That lets me swim on an empty stomach and increases the length of my fast. This morning — Tuesday 18 AUGUST 2020 — […] What’s Up? Bird photography in the mornings at ILE has been a struggle for the last two days. Today, Monday 17 AUGUST 2020 I spent an hour working from my SUV with a flock of White Ibis feeding in the grass near the base of the pier … Most folks preferred Image #2 in […] What’s Up? With the fields down by the lake still flooded, I worked the vulture tree again on Saturday morning and finished working one of the many dependable Sandhill Cranes (from the road that flanks the North Field). The forecast for this morning — Sunday 16 AUGUST 2020 — is for more of the same: […] What’s Up? I headed down to the lake early today — Friday 14 AUGUST 2020 — determined to photograph a few birds from my new SUV but I had not realized how long and hard it had rained late on the previous day. I dared not drive on the fields in fear of getting stuck. […] What’s Up? Yesterday morning’s photo session got off to a very exciting start; see the whole story below. I spent a good part of Wednesday setting up my new MacBook Pro. I got some amazing help from Apple Care and am quite close to being ready to rock and roll on the new machine. […] What’s Up? I have been alternating between birds and flowers on my morning photo sessions. On Monday I began with a nice adult Crested Caracara hanging around the base of the pier and then did some of the Mother’s Day crane family — two adults and the large, surviving colt. I am loving swimming in […] What’s Up? After my morning photo session I watched lots of golf, swam, did my bursts and Stairmaster, and ate too much sweet stuff. The afternoon temperature on the pool deck was 104 F. The pool is now a delightful 80 degrees. The forecast for this morning — Sunday 9 AUGUST 2020 — is for […] What’s Up? On Friday morning I did not dare to drive the fields down by the lake because on Thursday afternoon it rained torrentially for about four hours … I drove the side streets looking for wildflowers but pickings were slim. First I photographed the purple berries of the appropriately named American Beautyberry (Callicarpa americana). […] What’s Up? Me, early, as is usual. The forecast for today — Friday 7 AUGUST 2020 — is for a sunny morning with a negligible breeze from the NW. I will be heading out to do some photography at about 7:15am (as the days are getting shorter). My morning photo session streak is somewhere around […] Photo Mechanic 6 AUG screen Capture What’s Up? On the morning of Thursday 6 AUGUST 2020 I decided to go for the birds. The cranes cooperated nicely; it is great to have them to depend on most every day. Tomorrow we will begin taking a look at the Canon mirrorless camera […] What’s Up? I headed down to the lake early on Tuesday morning in search of birds. My first perched young Great Egret had a filthy neck so after a few frames I headed south on the South Peninsula to scope out another perched Great Egret. Read on to see what happened. The forecast for […] |
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