April 19th, 2018 Stuff
I had some nasty pain from my hernia while we were photographing at St. Pete Beach on the last afternoon of the DeSoto IPT. I was able to arrange to see Dr. Howard at 10am on Wednesday. The IPT group enjoyed a great thank you dinner at Good Times Continental Restaurant on Tierra Verde on Tuesday evening. Anita North got us home safely after a two-hour drive in the dark. After three glasses of riesling with dinner I would not have done too well behind the wheel. Noel Heustis took the rest of the group out on Wednesday morning and they killed on dancing dark morph Reddish Egret, Clapper Rail, and Black-necked Stilt. All of us really enjoyed meeting and chatting with newbie Norm Steffen of Estero, FL. He was a Navy pilot for ten years right between Vietnam and Desert Storm. He flew the A6 Intruder attach bombers on and off of the carrier Midway. He thrilled us with tales of tail hooks and night landings and lots more. And he is a heck of a nice man to boot.
Here is the text message that I got from Norm midday on Wednesday:
Made it home with a big smile on my face. Hope that you have one too. I had a great run this morning with the stilt and with “Big Red” dancing while Noel and Lorne were off with the Clapper Rail. Much more to follow but I wanted to say THANK YOU for a fantastic time. I learned much more than I expected I would or could. Good luck and I hope that you are feeling better soon. Norm
Norm showed up really wanting to learn. His big revelations had to do with getting the right exposure every time in Manual mode using the histogram while checking for blinkies, working on sun angle, the importance of getting low when working with relatively short focal lengths, and moving the AF points on his 7D 2. In parting he mentioned that the best photos he had ever made were on the DeSoto IPT. That put a big smile on my face. Many thanks to Anita and Loren who went out of the way to help Norm and of course to my relatively new assistant, Noel Heustis, who did the same.
Dr. Howard and I had a grand time on Wednesday morning re-visiting my 2016 gall badder surgery. For tomorrow there will be no food after midnight. I need to be at Outpatient Surgery at Lake Wales Hospital at noon on Thursday. Surgery at 2pm, out by five. I am 100% positive that Dr. Howard will do a great job.
The Streak
Today makes two hundred sixty-three days in a row with a new educational blog post! This one took less than an hour to prepare including the time spent on the image optimization. With all of my upcoming free time (or not…), the plan right now is to try to break the current record streak of 480 … Good health and good internet connections and my continuing insanity willing.
Dark-siders: Please Do Not Take This Personally
I have been saying this for a while: after many years in the business of brokering used gear sales, one pattern that I have seen is that most Nikon folks think that there stuff is worth a lot more than it actually is. That especially with regard to the sale of the older 600mm lenses, some of which weigh in the 12-14 pound range. If you can shed any light as to why this might be the case, I’d love to hear from you.
Selling Your Used Photo Gear Through BIRDS AS ART
Selling your used (or like-new) photo gear through the BAA Blog is a great idea. We charge only a 5% commission. One of the more popular used gear for sale sites charged a minimum of 20%. Plus assorted fees! Yikes. They went out of business. And e-Bay fees are now up to 13%. The minimum item price here is $500 (or less for a $25 fee). If you are interested please scroll down here or shoot us an e-mail with the words Items for Sale Info Request cut and pasted into the Subject line :). Stuff that is priced fairly — I offer pricing advice to those who agree to the terms — usually sells in no time flat. Over the past year, we have sold many dozens of items. Do know that prices on some items like the EOS-1D Mark IV, the old Canon 100-400, the old 500mm, the EOS-7D and 7D Mark II and the original 400mm DO lens have been dropping steadily. You can always see the current listings by clicking on the Used Photo Gear tab on the orange-yellow menu bar near the top of each blog post page.
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Money Saving Reminder
If you need a hot photo item that is out of stock at B&H, would enjoy free overnight shipping, and would like a $50 discount on your first purchase, click here to order and enter the coupon code BIRDSASART at checkout. If you are looking to strike a deal on Canon or Nikon gear (including the big telephotos) or on a multiple item order, contact Steve Elkins via e-mail or on his cell at (479) 381-2592 (Eastern time) and be sure to mention your BIRDSASART coupon code and use it for your online order. Patrick Sparkman saved $350 on a recent purchase!
Booking.Com
Several folks on the DeSoto IPT used the Booking.Com link below, got great rates, and saved a handsome $25.00 in the process. If you too would like to give Booking.Com a shot, click here and to earn a $25 reward on your first booking. Thanks to the many who have already tried and used this great service.
Gear Questions and Advice
Too many folks attending BAA IPTs and dozens of folks whom I see in the field, and on BPN, are–out of ignorance–using the wrong gear especially when it comes to tripods and more especially, tripod heads… Please know that I am always glad to answer your gear questions via e-mail. Those questions might deal with systems, camera bodies, accessories, and/or lens choices and decisions.
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This image was created on the morning of April 17, 2018. I used the Induro GIT 304L/Mongoose M3.6-mounted Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 600mm f/4E FL ED VR lens, the Nikon AF-S Teleconverter TC-14E III, and the Nikon D850. ISO 400. Matrix metering +2/3 stop as framed: 1/1250 sec. at f/6.3 in Manual mode. K7690 WB at 7:07am just right at sunrise.
Center Group (grp) AF point/Shutter button AF was active at the moment of exposure. The upper point of the array was right on the base of the bird’s neck. ]Click on the image to see a larger version
Focus peaking AF Fine-tune: +4.
Reddish Egret, running start, sunrise silhouette
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Always in a Hurry …
I have always been in a hurry. And though I have slowed down to some degree and embraced The Work of Byron Katie, I will probably always be in a hurry. One morning in Phoenix I dallied a bit on the way to the Gilbert Water Ranch. I followed my nose to a new spot and got into position. As I had already injured the shoulder I had been carrying the tripod in my left hand and the lens with the camera body and the 1.4X TC mounted in my right hand. As I was mounting the lens, I glanced at the pond and saw two Black-necked Stilts copulating. The male was standing atop his mate with his wing’s raised for about twenty seconds. All that with a perfect mirror image reflection and a dark green background. So much for dallying.
When we arrived at DeSoto on Tuesday we headed out to my favorite lagoon. There was some still, salmon-peach water to the west. There was a small flock of Short-billed Dowitchers feeding in the distance but they never quite lined up (though we tried). The most gorgeous still colorful water was beyond the second sandbar. But there were no birds there. I decided to gamble and headed west over the soft, mucky bottom. My bad left wing and hernia did not stop me. When I had made my way halfway across the shallow bay a bird fly in from my right, right into the still, luscious water. I still had a hundred yards to go and as I set me tripod down the bird starting running. I was just in the nick of time. The bird began to dance while moving from north to south. I moved right along with it striving to photograph the bird just a bit to the left or the right of the too-bright swatch of the sun on the water. Once the bird moved too far left or right the dramatic silhouette situation disappeared. I moved a lot 🙂
Looking back it was quite a way to start the morning; I was very glad that I had envisioned the best case scenario and then hustled to get to where I needed to be even before the bird showed up!
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Please Remember to use my Affiliate Links and to Visit the New BAA Online Store 🙂
To show your appreciation for my continuing efforts here, we ask, as always, that you get in the habit of using my B&H affiliate links on the right side of the blog for all of your photo and electronics purchases. Please check the availability of all photographic accessories in the New BIRDS AS ART Online Store, especially the Mongoose M3.6 tripod head, Wimberley lens plates, Delkin flash cards and accessories, and LensCoat stuff.
As always, we sell only what I have used, have tested, and can depend on. We will not sell you junk. We know what you need to make creating great images easy and fun. And please remember that I am always glad to answer your gear questions via e-mail.
I would of course appreciate your using our B&H affiliate links for all of your major gear, video, and electronic purchases. For the photographic stuff mentioned in the paragraph above, and for everything else in the new store, we, meaning BAA, would of course greatly appreciate your business. Here is a huge thank you to the many who have been using our links on a regular basis and those who will be visiting the New BIRDS AS ART Online Store as well.
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April 18th, 2018 Stuff
On Monday afternoon we almost left the lagoon right after we got there as there was not much around. But we persisted and were rewarded with some great stuff on Marbled Godwit, Laughing Gull, and White Ibis. And Norm Steffen got a really neat image of a Black-bellied Plover tugging on a very long worm. We returned to the same spot early on Tuesday morning and began with a silhouetted dancing reddish Egret. Next was a handsome, fishing Tricolored Heron in breeding plumage and a foraging Black-necked Stilt. Then we made a wiggle and visited Heustis Beach for some flight photography and some point-blank Royal Tern and Laughing Gull head portraits. Anita North made a really neat series of a young Laughing Gull landing with a rather large fresh-caught fish!
I was in some pain most of the day from my inguinal hernia and was able to arrange to see Dr. Howard on Wednesday morning; he removed my gall bladder in emergency surgery in October 2016. Five days later I flew to South America on an eleven week photography journey. I am hoping to have the hernia repaired on Thursday April 19 … Again, lunch at the Neptune Grill was superb. I celebrated my upcoming surgery with a slice of their amazing peanut butter pie! Out of necessity, I cancelled the Gatorland IPT; it is the second time in 25 years that I cancelled an IPT due to health problems. You gotta love it.
The Streak
Today makes two hundred sixty-two days in a row with a new educational blog post! This one took less than an hour to prepare including the time spent on the image optimization. With all of my upcoming free time (or not…), the plan right now is to try to break the current record streak of 480 … Good health and good internet connections and my continuing insanity willing.
Selling Your Used Photo Gear Through BIRDS AS ART
Selling your used (or like-new) photo gear through the BAA Blog is a great idea. We charge only a 5% commission. One of the more popular used gear for sale sites charged a minimum of 20%. Plus assorted fees! Yikes. They went out of business. And e-Bay fees are now up to 13%. The minimum item price here is $500 (or less for a $25 fee). If you are interested please scroll down here or shoot us an e-mail with the words Items for Sale Info Request cut and pasted into the Subject line :). Stuff that is priced fairly — I offer pricing advice to those who agree to the terms — usually sells in no time flat. Over the past year, we have sold many dozens of items. Do know that prices on some items like the EOS-1D Mark IV, the old Canon 100-400, the old 500mm, the EOS-7D and 7D Mark II and the original 400mm DO lens have been dropping steadily. You can always see the current listings by clicking on the Used Photo Gear tab on the orange-yellow menu bar near the top of each blog post page.
BIRDS AS ART
BIRDS AS ART is registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Money Saving Reminder
If you need a hot photo item that is out of stock at B&H, would enjoy free overnight shipping, and would like a $50 discount on your first purchase, click here to order and enter the coupon code BIRDSASART at checkout. If you are looking to strike a deal on Canon or Nikon gear (including the big telephotos) or on a multiple item order, contact Steve Elkins via e-mail or on his cell at (479) 381-2592 (Eastern time) and be sure to mention your BIRDSASART coupon code and use it for your online order. Patrick Sparkman saved $350 on a recent purchase!
Booking.Com
Several folks on the Gatorland IPT used the Booking.Com link below and got great rates and saved a handsome $25.00 in the process. If you too would like to give Booking.Com a shot, click here and to earn a $25 reward on your first booking. Thanks to the many who have already tried and used this great service.
Gear Questions and Advice
Too many folks attending BAA IPTs and dozens of folks whom I see in the field, and on BPN, are–out of ignorance–using the wrong gear especially when it comes to tripods and more especially, tripod heads… Please know that I am always glad to answer your gear questions via e-mail. Those questions might deal with systems, camera bodies, accessories, and/or lens choices and decisions.
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This image was created on the morning of April 15, 2018. I used the Induro GIT 304L/Mongoose M3.6-mounted Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 600mm f/4E FL ED VR lens, the Nikon AF-S Teleconverter TC-14E III, and the Nikon D850. ISO 1600. Matrix metering +2 stops as framed: 1/800 sec. at f/6.3. AUTO1 WB at 8:00am in a dark, stormy conditions.
Center Group (grp) AF point/Shutter button AF was active at the moment of exposure. The array was centered on the bird’s face. Click on the image to see a larger version
Focus peaking AF Fine-tune: +4.
Image #1: Red Knot, very worn first winter plumage
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First Winter Plumage
The Red Knot above is still in first basic (or first winter) plumage. Note that all of the upperparts feathers are plain gray. Note also that the feathers on the bird’s back and the uppermost row of wing coverts are in relatively decent shape but that the lower two rows of coverts are worn and frayed. The decent looking feathers were molted in in fall as part of the bird’s first winter plumage. Th worn, frayed feathers are retained juvenile feathers thus they look like a mess. Some are worn down to the feather shafts. The very few orange feathers on the chin and the sides of the upper breast are the beginnings of the molt to breeding or alternate plumage.
Compare the plumage of the bird above with the more colorful plumage of the bird in the next photo.
Anything Funky Above?
If you can spot any major Photoshop funkiness in Image #1 above, please leave a comment. I will reveal the major changes here soon.
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This image was also created on the morning of April 15, 2018. I used the Induro GIT 304L/Mongoose M3.6-mounted Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 600mm f/4E FL ED VR lens and the Nikon D850. ISO 640. Matrix metering +1 stop as framed: 1/1000 sec. at f/6.3. AUTO1 WB at 8:57am in cloudy, partly bright conditions.
One AF point down from the center AF d-9/Shutter button AF was active at the moment of exposure. The was selected AF point was on the side of the bird’s upper back/rear neck, right on the same plane as the bird’s face. Click on the image to see a larger version.
Focus peaking AF Fine-tune: +6.
Red Knot, molting into breeding (alternate) plumage/strong>
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Breeding or Alternate Plumage
Shorebirds in alternate (or breeding or summer) plumage feature bright colorful feathers often with distinctive patterning. The knot in Image #2 has begun to molt into its handsome alternate plumage. Many of the gray winter feathers have been replaced by colorful, patterned feathers, some with dark anchor-shapes on a field of orange. The breast feathers are orange. In two two three weeks the molt will be complete, the feathers of the upperparts will become spangled black and brown and silver, and the covert feathers with the anchor-shaped marks will wear and become brighter. Soon thereafter the birds will head north on an evening south wind and fly to their breeding grounds on Banks, Baffin, and Victoria Islands above the arctic circle in the far north of Canada.
Shorebirds: Beautiful Beachcombers
If you are interested in learning to identify and age all of the common North American shorebirds and learn about their amazing migrations, their breeding biology, their feeding habits, and everything else you might have wanted to learn on the way to the nearest mudflats, get yourself a copy of my softcover book, Shorebirds: Beautiful Beachcombers.
The Nikon Autofocus Focus Fine-tune e-Guide
There is lots of mis-information out there on Nikon Automatic AF Fine-tune. Working with Patrick Sparkman, we developed a way of using that feature most effectively. Patrick was on a roll and perfected a method for using the Focus Peaking feature available only on the D850 to quickly and accurately micro-adjust all lenses and TC-Es with the D-850. Both Nikon Automatic AF Fine-tune and D850 Focus Peaking AF Fine-tune require a LensAlign Mark II kit so that you can obtain accurate results. I learned recently that the Nikon D500 DSLR and the older D7500 both offer Automatic AF Fine-tune.
Folks who use one of my links to purchase a Nikon D850, a Nikon D5 DSLR Camera (Body Only, Dual XQD Slots), a Nikon D500 DSLR , or any Nikon gear totaling more than $2,000 will receive the new guide free.
Help Support the Blog
Please help support my (stupendous) efforts here on the blog by remembering to click on the logo link above each time that you shop Amazon. That would be greatly appreciated. There is no problem using your Prime account; just click on the link and log into your Prime account. With love, artie
If In Doubt …
If in doubt about using the BAA B&H affiliate link correctly, you can always start your search by clicking here. Please note that the tracking is invisible. Web orders only. Please, however, remember to shoot me your receipt via e-mail.
Please Remember to use my Affiliate Links and to Visit the New BAA Online Store 🙂
To show your appreciation for my continuing efforts here, we ask, as always, that you get in the habit of using my B&H affiliate links on the right side of the blog for all of your photo and electronics purchases. Please check the availability of all photographic accessories in the New BIRDS AS ART Online Store, especially the Mongoose M3.6 tripod head, Wimberley lens plates, Delkin flash cards and accessories, and LensCoat stuff.
As always, we sell only what I have used, have tested, and can depend on. We will not sell you junk. We know what you need to make creating great images easy and fun. And please remember that I am always glad to answer your gear questions via e-mail.
I would of course appreciate your using our B&H affiliate links for all of your major gear, video, and electronic purchases. For the photographic stuff mentioned in the paragraph above, and for everything else in the new store, we, meaning BAA, would of course greatly appreciate your business. Here is a huge thank you to the many who have been using our links on a regular basis and those who will be visiting the New BIRDS AS ART Online Store as well.
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Typos
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April 17th, 2018 Stuff
We were rained out on Sunday afternoon so we enjoyed a Photoshop session during which everyone picked their favorite Red Knot image from Sunday morning and optimized it. I was available for questions, guidance, and comments. The expected Northwest winds on Monday morning made photography very difficult but everyone persevered and came up with a few keepers. We tried a new spot, Heustis Beach (named after my friend/assistant Noel Heustis who discovered it). We had many chances with both Laughing Gull and Royal Tern but with wind against sun make a really good image was quite difficult. Our best situations were with some Ruddy Turnstones feeding along a seaweed-covered wall.
As always, lunch at the Neptune Grill was superb. During our long, post-lunch Photoshop session I entertained lots of questions dealing with cropping options and NIK Color EFEX Pro.
I have pretty much decided to have my inguinal hernia surgically repaired on May 3, the Thursday after the Gatorland IPT.
The Streak
Today makes two hundred sixty-one days in a row with a new educational blog post! This one took less than an hour to prepare including the time spent on the image optimization. With all of my upcoming free time (or not…), the plan right now is to try to break the current record streak of 480 … Good health and good internet connections and my continuing insanity willing.
Selling Your Used Photo Gear Through BIRDS AS ART
Selling your used (or like-new) photo gear through the BAA Blog is a great idea. We charge only a 5% commission. One of the more popular used gear for sale sites charged a minimum of 20%. Plus assorted fees! Yikes. They went out of business. And e-Bay fees are now up to 13%. The minimum item price here is $500 (or less for a $25 fee). If you are interested please scroll down here or shoot us an e-mail with the words Items for Sale Info Request cut and pasted into the Subject line :). Stuff that is priced fairly — I offer pricing advice to those who agree to the terms — usually sells in no time flat. Over the past year, we have sold many dozens of items. Do know that prices on some items like the EOS-1D Mark IV, the old Canon 100-400, the old 500mm, the EOS-7D and 7D Mark II and the original 400mm DO lens have been dropping steadily. You can always see the current listings by clicking on the Used Photo Gear tab on the orange-yellow menu bar near the top of each blog post page.
Canon EF 300mm f/4L IS USM Lens
Muhammad Arif is offering a used Canon 300mm f/4L IS USM lens in near-mint condition for $719. The sale includes the front and rear lens caps, the tough fabric lens case, the tripod collar, the original product box with the CDs, a LensCoat but for the two rear sections, and insured ground shipping by major courier to US addresses only is also included. Your item will not ship until your check clears unless other arrangements are made.
Please contact Muhammad via e-mail.
I owned and used this great lens for several years. It is a great flight lens and I always loved its close focusing abilities that made it great for flowers, frogs, and dragonflies. I firmly believe that it is a far better bird photography starter lens than my beloved old “toy lens,” the 400mm f/5.6L lens. Why? It is image stabilized and it does great with all AF points with a 1.4X TC. Grab this one while you can as the price is right. artie
BIRDS AS ART
BIRDS AS ART is registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
Money Saving Reminder
If you need a hot photo item that is out of stock at B&H, would enjoy free overnight shipping, and would like a $50 discount on your first purchase, click here to order and enter the coupon code BIRDSASART at checkout. If you are looking to strike a deal on Canon or Nikon gear (including the big telephotos) or on a multiple item order, contact Steve Elkins via e-mail or on his cell at (479) 381-2592 (Eastern time) and be sure to mention your BIRDSASART coupon code and use it for your online order. Patrick Sparkman saved $350 on a recent purchase!
Booking.Com
Several folks on the Gatorland IPT used the Booking.Com link below and got great rates and saved a handsome $25.00 in the process. If you too would like to give Booking.Com a shot, click here and to earn a $25 reward on your first booking. Thanks to the many who have already tried and used this great service.
Gear Questions and Advice
Too many folks attending BAA IPTs and dozens of folks whom I see in the field, and on BPN, are–out of ignorance–using the wrong gear especially when it comes to tripods and more especially, tripod heads… Please know that I am always glad to answer your gear questions via e-mail. Those questions might deal with systems, camera bodies, accessories, and/or lens choices and decisions.
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This image was created on the 2018 Fort DeSoto IPT on April 16, 2018. I used the Induro GIT 304L/Mongoose M3.6-mounted Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 600mm f/4E FL ED VR lens and the Nikon D850. ISO 400. Matrix metering-1/3 stop: 1/2500 sec at f/7.1 in Manual mode. AUTO1 WB at 9:28am in cloudy conditions.
Center Group (grp)/Shutter button AF was active at the moment of exposure. The array was on the bird’s neck, right on the same plane as the bird’s eye.
Focus peaking AF Fine-tune: +6.
Image #1: Heron/egret hybrid
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What the Heck Bird is This?
This is the strange bird that I photographed last year at Fort DeSoto; you can see photos of it as a hatch year bird here. I had thought then that it was a Great Egret X Reddish Egret hybrid. But after seeing it in breeding (alternate) plumage) this year, it seems almost obvious that it is a Great Blue Heron X Reddish Egret hybrid. Or not. Its amazing, sky blue/ultramarine lores scream “breeding plumage Great Blue Heron.”
The bird is much larger than any Snowy Egret, and much smaller and slimmer than any Great Blue Heron. It is likely smaller than a Great Egret (though we did not see it in direct comparison this year). It does not exhibit the drunken sailor feeding style that characterizes Reddish Egret. If you have any thoughts as to what it is, please do share. One thing that I do know is that it was a thrill to see it again this year as it is both unique and beautiful.
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This image was created on the 2018 Fort DeSoto IPT on April 16, 2018. I used the Induro GIT 304L/Mongoose M3.6-mounted Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 600mm f/4E FL ED VR lens and the Nikon D850. ISO 400. Matrix metering-1/3 stop: 1/2500 sec at f/7.1 in Manual mode. AUTO1 WB at 9:28am in cloudy conditions.
Center Group (grp)/Shutter button AF was active at the moment of exposure. The array was centered toward the rear of the bird’s rear chin, right on the same plane as the its eye.
Focus peaking AF Fine-tune: +6.
Image #2: Heron/egret hybrid/head portrait
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Which First?
Knowing me and my style, which of today’s featured images did I create first?
Your Favorite?
Which of today’s two featured images do you like best? Please leave a comment and let us know why you made your choice. I will share my clear favorite with you in a future blog post.
IPT Stuff
All IPTs include an introductory briefing before the IPT begins so you know what to expect, frequent in-the-field instruction and guidance (priceless), image editing and small group Photoshop instruction during and after lunch. Breakfasts are on your own so that we can get in the field early. Lunches are on me. Dinners are on your own as well so that we can get to bed as the days in spring will be long.
Rides with the leader are available on a limited basis for $50/day.
Registering for an IPT
To register for an IPT call Jim or Jen in the office at 863-692-0906 from Monday morning through Friday lunch with your credit card in hand to leave your $500 non-refundable deposit. Balances may not be paid by credit card so you will be asked to send a check for your balance along with the signed paperwork that you will find here.
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Tame birds in breeding plumage and heron and egret chicks are great fun.
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Gatorland IPT #2. Sunrise: 6:48am. Sunset: 7:58pm.
3 1/2 DAYs: THURS 26 APR through and including the morning of SUN 29 APR. $1599. Limit 5 photographers.
(2 1/2 DAY option) FRI 27 APR through and including the morning of SUN 29 APR. $1199.
Must purchase Gatorland Photographers Pass. Click here for details. All early entry. Late stays Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Gatorland IPT #2 should have lots of chicks, and lots of birds in breeding plumage. We will get to photograph Great Egret, Snowy Egret, Tricolored Heron, and Wood Stork. The Cattle Egrets in full breeding plumage will be present in good numbers. Learn my Gatorland strategy, to get the right exposure, flight photography techniques, my secret Gatorland spots, how to see the best situations (nobody is better at that than me), and how to make great images in extremely cluttered situations.
Help Support the Blog
Please help support my (stupendous) efforts here on the blog by remembering to click on the logo link above each time that you shop Amazon. That would be greatly appreciated. There is no problem using your Prime account; just click on the link and log into your Prime account. With love, artie
If In Doubt …
If in doubt about using the BAA B&H affiliate link correctly, you can always start your search by clicking here. Please note that the tracking is invisible. Web orders only. Please, however, remember to shoot me your receipt via e-mail.
Please Remember to use my Affiliate Links and to Visit the New BAA Online Store 🙂
To show your appreciation for my continuing efforts here, we ask, as always, that you get in the habit of using my B&H affiliate links on the right side of the blog for all of your photo and electronics purchases. Please check the availability of all photographic accessories in the New BIRDS AS ART Online Store, especially the Mongoose M3.6 tripod head, Wimberley lens plates, Delkin flash cards and accessories, and LensCoat stuff.
As always, we sell only what I have used, have tested, and can depend on. We will not sell you junk. We know what you need to make creating great images easy and fun. And please remember that I am always glad to answer your gear questions via e-mail.
I would of course appreciate your using our B&H affiliate links for all of your major gear, video, and electronic purchases. For the photographic stuff mentioned in the paragraph above, and for everything else in the new store, we, meaning BAA, would of course greatly appreciate your business. Here is a huge thank you to the many who have been using our links on a regular basis and those who will be visiting the New BIRDS AS ART Online Store as well.
Facebook
Be sure to like and follow BAA on Facebook by clicking on the logo link upper right. Tanks a stack.
Typos
In all blog posts and Bulletins, feel free to e-mail or to leave a comment regarding any typos or errors. Just be right :).
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