Postlist 2019 « Arthur Morris/BIRDS AS ART
April 7th, 2019

Postlist 2019

  • Sony a-1 ii — First Impressions. Should You Buy One?
  • For Want of a Bird
  • The Sony 400mm f/2.8 GM Lens. Not for everyone …
  • Help With Describing What You Like About an Image
  • One Day. 8,000 Sony a9 iii Images. And My Seven Faves
  • Keep or Delete? Ordinary or Special?
  • YouTube Video Guide: Bird Photography Shutter Speeds
  • Are You Mocking Me, Gambini? Northern Mockingbird Three Ways. And Finding the Long Lost Brother I Never Had
  • Please Help A Child Jump for Joy This Holiday Season
  • Another Amazing First: Bosom Buddies, Strange Bedfellows!
  • Mastering the Process. Give me 83 Decent Cloudy Minutes to Do My Job. And, I Can’t Believe I Forgot the Yellow Onions
  • Was it the Sony 200-600 G Lens? Was it the Sony α-1 with Firmware v2.02? Was it My Sony α-1 with Firmware v2.02 Camera Setup (.DAT file)? Or was it My Teaching Ability?
  • My Many Blessings. YouTube Video Plus Photo Tips
  • Home Sweet Home with Sony α-1 Firmware v2.02
  • Shooting Strategy for Clear Cold Mornings with NW Winds
  • The Sky was On Fire! Thank You Elaine
  • Sony a-1 II Pre-order Update. When I Expose Well to the Right on Cloudy Days, My Photos Look Washed Out
  • Sony Alpha 1 Version II
  • Dealing With Wind Against Sun Conditions. “Sometimes I am so good that I amaze myself” he said modestly …
  • Shutter Priority — Please Do Not Tell Me That Real Photographers Must Use Manual Mode 100% of the Time
  • Wanted — One Boreal Forest Bird & Bald Eagle Photographer
  • My Sebastian Mantra — Give Me One Good Chance
  • Teachable Old Dog. New Trick. Atlantic Ocean Art. Fred X2!
  • The Osprey and the Thieving Brown Pelican/A Fabulous Story-telling Photo Sequence by My Friend, Bob Eastman
  • The Amazing Life of a Very Happy Man
  • 2 November 2024 — Just Another Day at the Office
  • Sony a9 iii Amazing with All Lenses and Both Teleconverters
  • Come On Down Right Now for Ospreys and More
  • Geri Georg Does Nickerson Beach Quite Well
  • Brand New Sony 600mm f/4 OSS GM Lens! And an a9 iii
  • Safe to Go in the Water. Six images made with a v2.02 a-1
  • Rebuilding in Progress. Sony a-1 Firmware Update Update
  • Like-New Canon RF 600mm! San Diego Ain’t Just Pelicans!
  • Tricolored Heron Second Edit YouTube Video
  • Urgent: If You Are a Woman, or Know One, Check These Out
  • San Diego. Pelicans and More Bird Photography Hotspot!
  • A Camera Body Miracle That Took Two Months!
  • Hurricane Milton BIRDS AS ART Update
  • What’s Up? Hurricane Milton on the Way …
  • Must Have Been a School of Yellowfin Menhaden! More Lessons. And More on Bird Pupils versus Human Pupils
  • Exposure Fine Points : Reflectance and Wriggling Silver Fish
  • From Oh and Five to OMG!
  • A Ton of Learning From a Single Osprey Image
  • Pick Your Own Dates Short-notice Sebastian Inlet Ospreys and More BAA Personalized Instructional Workshops
  • BPN Sold. Stay In on a Stormy Morning? The Requested Eye Replacement and a Head Replacement as Well
  • A Rare Chance: Photographing Bathing Black Vultures
  • Longs Lens Lessons From the Worst Morning in Two Weeks
  • Indian Lake Estates Late Summer Potpourri
  • Both 86- and 78-Year Olds Learn on an Extended IPT
  • Rating Three Pretty-Close-to-Perfect Images
  • 1200mm at f/8 versus f/11 Ramifications. Which is Better?
  • Questions, Comments, Suspicions?
  • Two Wins for Shutter Priority Mode!
  • The Sora, Field Etiquette Advice, & the NYC Queer Birders
  • But We Already Photographed Juvenile Lesser Yellowlegs …
  • Two Sony a-1 Black-bellied Action Images
  • Florida Is Trying to Ram Development of State Parks, “Skirting the Legal Process” By Jason Cochran
  • Judy Proves that Bird Photography is Not Rocket Science
  • New Video: Juvenile Black Skimmers Practicing Skimming
  • A Magical Evening on All Counts
  • 16,124 Image Lowlight Nickerson Beach Party
  • Two for Action, One for Art (Pardon the Play on Words)
  • Sometimes, I am Just Plain Lazy: 70-200mm Versatility, a Quasi-Jiggle Blur, and Captivated by a Beach Plant
  • Seventeen Neat Nickerson Beach Before and After Images
  • A Distressed Black Skimmer Chick Story in Four Pictures
  • Young Black Skimmer Developmental Flight Strategy: First You Run Fast, Then You’re An Orville, and Then You Fly!
  • Three Versions of Two Very Similar Backlit Flight Photos
  • The Un-banded American Oystercatcher Family of Four: A 10,000 to 1 Against Head Angle /Juxtapositional Miracle
  • Monte Brown Flying High at Nickerson Beach with Sony
  • Sun Ball Perspective Question. Can an inch matter?
  • The Eclectic Photography & Life of Dr. Greg Gulbransen
  • Nickerson Beach Gloomy Morning Cherry Picking
  • Why a Wide Angle Lens on the Beach for Birds?
  • A Great Ending to the JAX IPT. And the a1/a9 iii Dilemma …
  • Beyond Killer Handheld Flight Rig! White Sky/Black Sky
  • Can a Sandwich Tern Chick Have an Orange Bill?
  • The Goal: One Family Jewel per Session. Achieved.
  • New YouTube Video: Picking My Keepers from a Darned Good (but unexpected) Summer Morning Down by the Lake
  • Back in Business? Striving Not to Be Bored by Cranes
  • Glad That I Did Not Sell All of My Sony a1 Bodies
  • Just When You Are Sure That It’s Gonna Suck …
  • Don’t Be Scared I & II & III
  • Dealing with Flower Petal Imperfections
  • Colorado Songbirds III: Violet-green Swallow Fulfillment
  • Salmon and Scallops: Healthy and Yummy
  • Behave Yourself!
  • You Tube Video: The World Class Nature Photography of Anita North. With Arthur Morris/BIRDS AS ART
  • Dream When Choosing Your Perspective
  • Colorado Songbirds Part I
  • Spring and Summer Sea Ducks at Nickerson Beach?
  • Nikon Oldie But Goodie Oystercatcher Feeding Young
  • What Bird? How Old?
  • Everything is Just Ducky. Used Gear Price Drops
  • Sony a9 iii 1200mm X-rated 120 frames per second Benefits
  • Skilled Friends in Cold Places — Northern Lights Images
  • Sony 1200mm. Why go with the Sony a1? Why go with the a9 iii? Different tools for the job at hand. News from Arash
  • Hard to Believe. A New Record: 86 Years Young!
  • Audubon-like Miracle with Sony camera and lens at 1200mm. Shooting into Blasting, Super-Bright Reflections. Just how much can you learn from a single image?
  • Killdeer Young — How Old Are You Now?
  • Photographic Cliches???
  • Two Very Different Whistling Duck Images!
  • Picking My May 25 Keepers — Avoiding the Grasses
  • Ugly Sticks Gone. Why the Sony a9 iii for Bird Photography?
  • There’s More Than One Way to Skin a Duck in Flight
  • Better Than a Poke in the Eye With a Sharp Stick …
  • Why Birds Fish Under and Around Piers
  • Not Recommended. But Do-able. The Results? Not Bad
  • What to Do on a Lousy, Lazy Afternoon?
  • Help Needed Times Two
  • AMOY Birdscape — Bill Reconstruction & Band Removal
  • Word Press Help Needed. And Sony a9iii 420mm Shorebirds
  • Right Place. Right Time. No Light. Right Lens, Again!
  • Killdeers Adults and Chicks are Skittish. What to Do?
  • Striving Not to Be Bored of Sandhill Cranes …
  • Lake Blue Cypress — It Ain’t Just Ospreys. Part I
  • Believe It Or Not
  • Improve Your Bird (and Nature) Photography By Leaps and Bounds: Be Sure to Bookmark and Study This Page
  • Bismarck to Orlando Travel Adventure (& Misadventure)
  • More On Kevin Hice and His Wonderful Images
  • Do You Like Sun or Clouds for Bald Eagle Photography?
  • Sharp-tailed Grouse — Tough Customers! Mint Canon 600 II
  • Re-Visiting Cape Coral’s Burrowing Owls
  • Catching Up Again in Reverse; The Best Way To Learn
  • Like Trying to Photograph a Herd of Frenetic Mice!
  • Canon Shooter Kevin Hice is One Smart, Tough, Hardworking, Determined Guy and One Fine Photographer
  • It’s Not Always Easy to Get it Exactly Right in Bird Photography. What Do You Think of Square Crops? And How are Those Two Related?
  • Fort DeSoto May Highlights Part I — It’s Not Too Late!
  • Announcing the July 2024 Jax Royal Terns and More IPT
  • Birding Under the Influence, by Dorian Anderson
  • Greater Prairie Chicken Miracles Can Happen!
  • Warm Large-in-the-Frame and Cool Small-in-the-Frame
  • Incoming 840mm Flight Off the Tilted a9 iii Rear Monitor!
  • Action on the Lek!
  • First Blood: Greater Prairie Chickens in South Dakota
  • Huguenot Memorial Park Royal Tern AirBnB Opportunity
  • Osprey/Eagle Chase: There’s a First Time for Everything!
  • V-LOG: Picking My Keepers from a 5851 a9 iii Image Folder
  • Anke Frohlich Does Both Homer 2024 IPTs
  • Where Does the Sony 300m f/2.8 GM Lens Fit for You?
  • Better Than Most: Sony a9 iii Bird-Eye Detection Autofocus
  • Catching Up in Spades
  • Eggs-zactly Why to Join a Nickerson Beach IPT This Summer
  • Same Bird. Same Lens. Two Slightly Different Images
  • Who Fell Over Backwards? A Cape Coral Burrowing Owl Photo Adventure. And Who’s Got the Mole Cricket?
  • One in the Sun for Good Measure & a 2nd Nest Hatches
  • I Never Gave Up Hope 🙂 Crane Chicks in Purple Flowers
  • Two Pretty Good Spoonbill Images. And New Used Gear
  • Not a Bad Day in the Middle of Florida
  • May in Little Rock or Summer on Long Island at the Beach!
  • Was This Image the Result of Pure Luck or the Right Gear?
  • New Tenants. Does Junk In Always Equal Junk Out?
  • Why Do Sony a9 iii Images Look So Good at Only 24.6 MP?
  • JBWR/Nickerson Beach August 2024 IPT
  • Lots More on the Sony a9 iii (including two 1200mm images)!
  • I Did Not Want to Like the Sony a9 iii Mirrorless Body …
  • The 2024 Nickerson Beach IPTs — skimmers, terns, and oystercatchers galore. And a Used Canon 600mm f/4L IS II
  • Still Striving for Different w/the Sony 300mm f/2.8 GM Lens
  • Wonderful Clients, and Striving for Different (as is usual)
  • Meet the Game Changer, the Sony 300mm f/2.8 GM Lens. With a Sony a-1 of course, and either teleconverter
  • An Alternate Photographic Strategy: Shoot Wide and Crop!
  • DeSoto Spring Beauties/The Times They Have Changed
  • Home. Morro Bay Sunsets. And DeSoto Spring IPTs
  • Swamped by a Rogue Wave. And the Advantages and Disadvantages of Working off a Flattened Tripod
  • Is a 1/15 sec. Shutter Speed for Bird Photography Nuts?
  • The Steps That All Bird Photographers Need to Master. And an Afternoon Walk with the Deadly & Versatile SONY 2-6!
  • Things Have Been Just Ducky at Santee Lakes Regional Park. Have You Ever Heard of Guy McCaskie, CA’s Top Birder?
  • Flight Photography Tips! Recipe for (Flight) Photography Success with the Robus 5558 Tripod/Levered-Clamp FlexShooter Pro-mounted Sony 600mm f/4 GM Lens/a 1 Rig
  • “Switching from Canon to Sony was the Smartest Thing I Ever Did Other than Marrying Nancy.” Monte Brown
  • Horizontal or Vertical for Tight Incoming Pelican Flight?
  • This Could Be …
  • 70-200mm f/2.8 is Too Short For Bird Photography. Or Not?
  • The Two Best Out of 3460 Images? Photo Mechanic Rocks!
  • Two Squares From La Jolla Day One
  • Not Too Late to Join a San Diego IPT or Sign Up for an ITF Session! NEW: Using a BIRDS AS ART Amazon Link
  • Changing Background Colors in the Field. The Skinny on the NIKKOR Z 800mm f/6.3 VR S Lens and the Z9/Z8 Bodies
  • Miracle Under the Bridge. IPT Learning Goes Both Ways
  • Follow Attractive Subjects and Then Work Them Hard
  • Image Optimization Planning
  • My Inadvertent Photo Thefts. Bob Eastman II. Homer 2025!
  • Wrong Again. And Strange But True! And Why.
  • 2024 Off to a Good Start (but with 2 missed chances)
  • Twenty-four of My 2023 Favorite Images
  • Do-Over: Picking Flight Keepers in Photo Mechanic & More!
  • Announcing Two Fort DeSoto Spring IPTs
  • Help Needed Please
  • I’m Dreaming of a White …
  • DB III VOL I/#3: Head Replacement and Going Both Ways!
  • Sony 70-200mm II/a-1 (no teleconverter!) Rocks La Jolla
  • LensRentals.com and a Dramatic Lake-scape (with how-to)
  • Nanci Griffith, Julie Gold, and a Stuck Osprey
  • Alan Goodwin — Amazing Super-telephoto Lens/a-1 Beginner
  • Striving for Different. And Blessed at Indian Lake Estates
  • Single Bird Horizontal Image Design: the Mike De Rosa Rule
  • Heading Back to Morro Bay, CA. Image Quality Then & Now
  • The Osprey Flight Direction Reveal and DB III: VOL I/#2
  • Sebastian Sucked. When Conditions are Tough, Don’t Quit: Be Creative and Strive to Hone Your Low Light Skills
  • Three From a Great 1200mm/BLUBB/X-5 Morning at Indian Lake Estates. Which is the strongest image?
  • Perfect Conditions at Sebastian Coming Very Soon
  • Crap Shooting on the Pier with the Peashooter Rig Pays Off
  • Successfully Testing My Repaired 600mm f/4 at 1200mm
  • Two Headless Birds!
  • Is Digital Photography Too Phony, Too Computer-centric?
  • Won’t You Make My White Skies Blue?
  • My Oft Scoffed-at Belief Proven to be True
  • The Colors of San Diego in Winter
  • Unexpected Successes (???) are Rarities
  • Widely Varied Opinions. A Tip, & Lots to Consider & Learn
  • The Digital Basics III Video Series: Volume I/#1
  • A New Approach to Blazing Star Blossom Photography
  • Sony 200-600 G lens + 1.4X TC + a-1 at 840/749mm Low Perspective Foot-pod Shorebird Perfection X2. And How!
  • Not Something That You See Everyday! Falling More Deeply in Love with the Lightweight, Versatile SONY 200-600
  • What was Chris Doing Right and Wrong?
  • Lots on Exposure. Hovering Versus Kiting. Sebastian Inlet Spectacular on Friday. Handholding versus Tripod for 840mm Flight Photography. And More On Flight Poses
  • Join Me at DeSoto to Learn and Photograph Shorebirds
  • Success on a Lazy 200-600 Morning at Fort DeSoto
  • Right Place, Right Time, Seeing the Shot, & Getting Lucky
  • THE Best Lens for Pelican Flight Photography In La Jolla
  • Eastern Fall Tern ID Tips. And more.
  • ILE Crawling with Crested Caracaras!
  • Pugs Got His Money’s Worth at Fort DeSoto
  • Fishing Fall Osprey at Sebastian Inlet
  • M1 MacBook Pro (16 inch, 2021)
  • 70-200 Versatility. Franklin Flats Magic. Homer Discounts
  • DeSoto Still On Fire! $600 Discount Offer on Fall IPT #2
  • $500 IPT Discount. Flamingo Sunrise Silhouette Unseen by All But One Photographer. 2 Tough Questions & 1 Easy One
  • DeSoto — Amazing Plus, Plus Two Un-banded Flamingos!
  • DeSoto Busman’s Holiday Morning 2nd Edit Video
  • 2-Step Noise Reduction. Total ISO for 4 Images: 31,200!
  • If You’re Free This Coming Week. Concrete Backgrounds?
  • Bok Tower Flower Lessons. Sandisk 4TB SSHD Warning. Why Do You Photograph Birds and Natural History? And, What Happens to Our Images When We Die?
  • Keeping Your Images Safe. And the kid in the candy store
  • Full Speed Ahead and Damn the ISO!
  • Is it Possible to Design Pleasing Flight Images In-Camera?
  • Keep or Delete this Pacific-race Brown Pelicans Greeting Image? First Thoughts on the New Remove Tool
  • Tortoise Heaven: the Highlands at Puerto Ayora, Santa Cruz
  • Using Every Club in the Bag; DeSoto Multiple Choice/Fill-in
  • Flying High in the Galapagos
  • It’s Good to be Home. Lessons from the Galapagos. And the First and the Last North Seymour Keepers
  • Bald Eagles Braking to Land with the HH 400mm f/2.8
  • Not All Sunsets are Glorious. What to do?
  • Single Skimmer Aerial Fight Images : Sharp or Blurred?
  • Working a Subject: Brandt’s Cormorant in La Jolla, CA
  • Are You a One Percenter?
  • Followed My Own Advice 🙂
  • Two Early Morning Low Light Images: Total ISOs — 15,000!
  • Conflict Photographer James Natchwey Has My Respect
  • Bald Eagle Head Portraits with a HH Telephoto Zoom!
  • Announcing the Publication of the Flight Photography Guide
  • La Jolla, CA — Where the Bird Photography is Easy
  • The Various Shades of Low
  • Sony 70-200mm f/2.8 GM II Versatility on the Beach
  • On Respecting Photography
  • JBWR Sucks but Nickerson Beach is Rocking!
  • As Good as it Gets: Nickerson and JBWR in August
  • Getting Low Late Summer Through Fall Pays Big Dividends
  • Celebrating Forty Years of Bird Photography. And Puzzled
  • Loonatic Action and Stunning Sony a-1 Autofocus Part I
  • Fall Fort DeSoto Shorebird Identification and Behavior
  • Bad High Wind Flying Puffin Circus! (with video clip)
  • The Sony 1200mm Puffin Head Advantage
  • Roseate Spoonbill in Fall at DeSoto. And 2X TC Comments
  • The Goal is Always the Same: One Great Image per Session
  • The Great Life and Superb Photography of Greg Downing
  • Six Images Announcing the 2023 DeSoto Fall IPTs
  • Six Images Announcing the 2023 DeSoto Fall IPTs
  • The Third Way to Skin a Flying Puffin
  • Two Ways to Skin a Flying Atlantic Puffin — Then a Third
  • Black-tailed Godwit Mission Accomplished
  • Picking My Red-throated Loon Photo Brain
  • Taking a Varied Approach When Visiting Great Photographic Locations
  • Film. And Dealing With a Serious Operator Framing Error
  • Is 30 fps Magic? Bald Eagle Flight with the 70-200 f/2.8 II
  • Moving Water and Pelican Flight Shutter Speed Challenge
  • Sun or None for Wood Ducks? And the Purple Cheek Patch
  • Two Lousy Images Combine to Make One Wonderful Image
  • A Magical Landing. Is Larger in the Frame Always Better?
  • Higher Standards for Flight Photography
  • More Wind Against Sun Success. And Finally Hatched!
  • Chick Challenges! And As Good As AF Gets?
  • Remove the Adult Tern or Not? Your Call
  • Life and Death on the Beach
  • When Conditions are Tough, Try Slow Shutter Speeds
  • Common Tern Would You? Questions
  • Score Six for Bruce Dudek’s Canon R3/RF 600mm!
  • My Yellow Light District Birthday Gifts from the Universe
  • Against All Odds! Success in Near-Impossible Conditions. Suggestions for Dealing with Seemingly Hopeless Situations
  • Finally Got Lucky With Copulating Black Skimmers!
  • Epic Common Tern/American Oystercatcher Smoky Skies Morning at Nickerson Beach, Long Island, NY
  • 2X3 or Pano American Oystercatcher on Eggs?
  • The Versatile Sony FE 70-200mm f/2.8 GM OSS II Lens/FE 1.4X Teleconverter/α-1 Combination. And Ooops!
  • Interesting and Creative or a Waste of Pixels?
  • Common Tern Nesting at Nickerson Beach. And an Overview: the Lower Extremities Pod Techniques
  • The Atlantic Ocean as an Element of Composition, Using the Swash. And Understanding Atmospheric Perspective
  • IPT Reviews. A Like-New Sony 600mm f/4 GM Lens for Sale. Announcing the Summer 2023 Nickerson Beach Terns, Skimmers, & Oystercatchers Instructional Photo Tour (IPT). And More American Oystercatcher Family & Chick Images
  • Flight Photography at Nickerson in June. With Lessons!
  • Oystercatcher Chick Downs 45,000 Sand Crab Eggs!
  • Four More By the Incredible Sony 200-600 G Lens/α1 Rig
  • Four of My Favorites from the DeSoto Mega Afternoon
  • The Unexpected Mega-Afternoon on a BAA DeSoto IPT
  • Vasili and the Bald Eagles
  • Protect Your Images! Last Minute Reminder
  • Egg and Daughter Nite. And 3 Achromatic RNDU Images
  • This Post (with the video)Took Four Hours to Prepare : Give Me Seven Good Soft-Light Snowy Egret Minutes & a Raw Conversion and Image Optimization YouTube Video
  • Going the Extra Mile. Dr. Fish – is this a Red Snapper?
  • Special Edition Post: Don’t Learn the Hard Way As I Did!
  • It’s Hard to Train Your Brain for These Shots …
  • Surprise Subject: Homer Ain’t Just Eagles! Snow Cleanup
  • Amazingly Coincidental Images Made at the Exact Same Instant! Is Lower Always Better? And I Can’t Do That …
  • YouTube Video: Bird Photography Lessons at the New Far Bar at Fort DeSoto. And announcing the 2023 Fort DeSoto New Cut Current Conditions e-Guide
  • Two of my Favorite La Jolla Pelican Perches
  • Four Squares at the Sewer Works Main Pond on Bonaire. And the Robus RC-5558 Tripod versus the Robus RC-5558-3
  • Another BAA Masterpiece? And a Content-Aware Crop Tip
  • On Photographing Juvenile Bald Eagles
  • Eliminating Rookery Clutter at 1200mm!
  • V-Log: Brain Surgeon Operates Successfully on Florida Birds at My Favorite Photo Hotspots!
  • Fun in the Fort DeSoto Fog
  • Two Markus Leinberger San Diego Killer Images
  • Two BIRDS AS ART Royal Tern Masterpieces & Questions
  • DeSoto Epic Morning & Royal Terns: Hopping and Crabby
  • Lousy Weather, Common Birds, Uncommonly Good Images
  • Crested Caracara — I Left the Nest, for This? And Using a Cable Release to Shoot Birds in Action!
  • Hard to Believe: 4000! Wind Against Sun A — What to Do?
  • Right Place, Right Time, Right Rig. Too Cute
  • More On Tools for Fools
  • A Momentous Decision, Stick Marsh, & Tools for Fools
  • Two From Our Epic Day & Tracking Expand Spot Magic
  • My New Favorite DeSoto Walk-around Lens
  • Bob Handin Tries the Sony a1. And YouTube Free image optimization video
  • Figuring Things Out (at new bird photography locations)
  • What Bob Eastman Learned on the Homer IPTs
  • Hapless But Happy and Loving It! The Life of Bob Eastman
  • Relocated Sandhill Crane Colt. Tough Exposure Question
  • Tight Eagle Flight Photography & 2024 Homer/Kachemak Bay Bald Eagle IPT Early-bird Discount Info
  • A 62-frame Midair Eagle Tussle & a chance to learn
  • Sea Otter Pups in the Harbor at Homer, AK
  • Score Six for Canon, Fort DeSoto, & Clemens Van der Werf!
  • Black Vulture Squabble and a Tiny, Hungry Crane Chick
  • Picking Your Keepers in Photo Mechanic. And Color Mixer
  • Dealing With Constantly Changing Light
  • Give Me 80 Very Good Minutes. On Backgrounds
  • Very Late for Brunch on a Dark Cloudy Morning
  • Fan Mail from an (Ethical) Wildlife Photographer
  • World’s Best Emoji and The Amazing Sony CJ Story
  • Dunce of the Year Award for Mr. Famous Bird Photographer. And My First 2023 Stick Marsh Visit
  • Stunned by Sony a1 Autofocus. Lens, TC, and focal length?
  • Blessed by Sandhill Crane Chicks, Eaglets, and More at ILE
  • Announcing the 2024 Homer/Kachemak Bay Bald Eagle IPT. And On Handholding the 400mm f/2.8 with the 2X TC
  • Homer’s Last Morning’s Special Gifts
  • Parting Shots: Momma Moose and a Volcanic Sunset
  • Do You Agree With This Premise?
  • Silhouette Exposures. Transforming an Eagle into a Rock.
  • Would You Go Silhouette or Natural?
  • There is More Than One Way to Skin a Pelican in Photoshop
  • Keep or Delete? Why? Your Image Optimization Thoughts?
  • A Favorite From the Mega-Epic Day. And Sitting For Flight
  • Larus Glaucescens Five Ways
  • I Slept Through This! How Would You Have Felt?
  • The Continuing Quest for New and Different
  • On Improving My Flight Photography
  • A Little-Known Fact About Fort DeSoto. On Shooting Low
  • A Swiss Army Knife of a Lens
  • The Fast, Versatile, Handhold-able Sony 400mm f/2.8 GM Lens is Ideal for the Low Light Conditions in Homer
  • The Truly Extraordinary Bird Photography of Matt Huras & THE Very Best Way to Improve Your Nature Photography
  • Homer IPT #1 Sunny First Morning. On sunny days in Homer, improving your flight photography, 200-600 MFD, backgrounds on the beach, and big momma eagles!
  • Why Pano Crops? Why Manual Focus? Why Under-exposed?
  • Think Fast and Act Faster When Creating Juxtapositions
  • DeSoto in Spring –Lots to Photograph! And Air Travel Tips
  • Why Wide-Open? A New Approach to Understanding DOF
  • Mike De Rosa Scores Again with his Sony a1/200-600 Rig!
  • American White Pelican City!
  • The Lens I Advised Against for 3 Decades. More on Storage
  • A Simple Solution to the Botched Pelican Composite
  • Perfect? My Thoughts on Image Storage Problems
  • Pretty Neat Eagle Nest Trick Shots. How Did I Do It?
  • How I Screwed Up the Composite. Next Week: White Pelicans, the North Tampa Rookery, and the Hooptie Deux
  • Killer Pelican Video. And Announcing the 2023/2024 San Diego Brown Pelicans and More Instructional Photo Tours
  • Screwed Up Again! What’s Real? What’s Fake?
  • San Diego — It Ain’t Just Pelicans!
  • Brutal Honesty Requested
  • Murphy’s Law of Nests. And What You Can Do About It
  • Eaglets Branching Soon! And a Great Sony A1 Video Course
  • DeSoto’s Aqua Blue-Green and Tan Sand Backgrounds
  • Inspired By Tuesday’s Clear Sunrise
  • In Love With Low. A Mystery! And How Low Can You Go?
  • On Understanding the Angle of Declination. Sweet Light
  • Running Shorebird Backgrounds. Why Crouch? And a Sony FE 200-600mm f/5.6-6.3 G OSS Lens versus the Canon RF 100-500mm f/4.5-7.1 L IS USM Lens Comparison
  • 30-frames per second Rocks DeSoto Pelican Fishing Action
  • This Blog Post Took Six Hours to Prepare! Great New Sony Used Gear Listings including a like-new 600mm f/4 GM OSS Lens. Four Fishy Snow Egret Images. And Announcing Three 2023 Spring Fort DeSoto Instructional Photo-Tours
  • Change of Pace: Coldie Oldie But Goodie Canon Cutie
  • Good to Be Home. Why the Bold-faced Exclamation Point?
  • A Unique Pelican Flight Perspective Times Two
  • Raindrops on My Scapulars
  • Cheating a Bit with a Great Sea Lion Surfing Image
  • Why You Should Be in Manual Exposure Mode 99% of the Time When Photographing Birds. Period.
  • Sony 200-600mm G Lens at 840mm on the Cliffs at La Jolla
  • Compromising on Shutter Speed to Avoid Mega-high ISOs
  • Heermann’s Gull Coronado Mission Accomplished
  • Western Gull with Rainbow
  • Salton Sea Bird-scapes With a Great New Focusing Tip
  • 1200mm Sleeping Pelican Feather Detail Technique
  • A Harrowing Drive. The 200-600 Best for Pre-dawn Blurs
  • Eighteen out of Eighteen Perfect Images
  • Science Fiction-Like AF with the Sony a1/200-600/1.4X TC!
  • The Everlasting Yoga Pose Wingstretch: Elegant Angularity
  • Worth Saving: Brown Pelican Flight w/Big Fish in Bill Pouch
  • By Popular Demand. Singh-Ray NDs. And with all due respect to Canon and Nikon mirrorless, and all dSLR folks
  • More on Bosque: Dear Phil and Phoebe
  • Nice Rock!
  • San Diego December Flight Photography Fine Points
  • Adding Green Whenever Possible
  • What About Bosque?
  • Why Shoot Birds in Flight as Vertical Originals?
  • Which is the stronger image? Is it even a question?
  • Trying for Different on a Very Stormy Day
  • Have a Great 2023!
  • La Jolla’s Anna’s Hummingbirds
  • A Little Person Story. And a Hard to Believe Dog Tale
  • Pelican Eyeball Self-Portrait Courtesy of the Sony a1
  • On Field Etiquette or the Lack Thereof, Getting the Green Pelican Backgrounds, and Getting Lucky at 1/60 Second
  • The Foggy Image Optimization
  • Bite Me!
  • Fun in the Fog
  • A Canon R6. Changeable Weather in Sunny Photo Locations and an Orange Marmalade Pelican Bill Pouch Pano
  • I’m Always Hoping for Just One Good Image. On Listening to the Leader. And On Seeing Different and Wonderful
  • Avian Whitewash Poop Art
  • Call Jim and Then Get a Flight to San Diego
  • Scissors-Preening. What is It? And Photo Tips
  • What ISO?
  • Walking the Sacred Battlefield Burial Ground
  • In Memoriam: the Last Vulture Tree Sunrise
  • Alan Murphy Kills with the Nikon Z9!
  • 800mm Handheld Sun Ball Photography Ain’t Easy
  • My Favorite Kachemak Bay Bald Eagle Perch. And a Ship!
  • The Eagle Nest Tree, & the Depth of Field Question (Again)
  • On Working the Same Subjects Ad Infinitum
  • Used Nikon 300 PF Price Drop. Photo Gear Shipping Warning. And Know the Wind. Think Fast & Act Faster!
  • It Was The Frog’s Fault!
  • What a Way to Wake Up & Learn Something New
  • One Reason I ‘m Always in a Hurry
  • The Whole New World of Digital: Dew-Draped Spider Webs
  • One Very Strange (and very beautiful) Bird!
  • Save Yourself From Too Many Images: Stringent Editing
  • Two Sony A7R IV Bodies To Go: One Regular, One Infrared
  • Flower “Pillows and More” Wind-shields. Really!
  • In Memoriam: Stokes Fishburne, a kind and gentle man
  • AM & PM. 1200 & 200-600. What Excites Me 🙂 And a Telling Quote from the NANPA Supposed Town Meeting
  • The 2023 Spoonbill Boat 1-1/2 DAY MINI-IPT. The Expanded Winter IPT (Including the 1 1/2 DAY MINI IPT). And Spoonbill & Canon EF 800mm f/5.6 L IS Memories
  • Apples and Oranges. Night and Day. And NANPA Tidbits
  • My Sunday Morning No Vulture Trees Pledge
  • Photoshop Ethics and Morality Discussion & Answers
  • When You Have a Tree Full of Vultures, Think Vulture Soup
  • Eliminating the Orange Bill Blur. And More Eye Doctor Work
  • Happy Thanksgiving 2022. And Tom Turkey Lessons
  • Almost Deleted This One. And the Mother of Invention
  • Photographing Brown Pelicans in SO CAL. These Two Images Didn’t Make Today’s B&H Event Space Program!
  • A Dark Morning’s Walk. ISO 5000 Is No Big Deal Anymore
  • NANPA Board Exposed. And Willets in the Sebastian Surf
  • Three Oldies but Goodies!
  • Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down? More on Background Clean-up. And, is Sony Mirrorless Gear, with Zebras for stills and science-fiction-like autofocus, unfair to flying birds?
  • B&H Event Space II & the Skinny on the Down Low
  • Down the Hatch. And a great monopod vertical grip/tip!
  • Some days are stones. Except when they’re not!
  • Some Days are Diamonds IV. This one, in the rough.
  • Soft Light and the In-Heaven Motif
  • Some Days are Diamonds III: Black & White or Gold?
  • Some Days are Diamonds — II. A GBH & a dried up catfish
  • Some Days are Diamonds: Part I — Anhinga/Spanish Moss-scape. A Near-Mint R6 & the Homer B&H Event Space Link
  • See you this afternoon in Homer! And IV Hard to Believes
  • Please Help Stop a Silent but Deadly Killer
  • Lots of Fishing But Not Much Catching
  • Homer: It Ain’t Just Eagles. And a Back-lit Exposure Tip
  • A Blog Post to Inspire Your Compositional Creativity
  • Beating the Dead Horse. Is Flopped Better?
  • 560mm Handheld and Loving It at DeSoto
  • Philly’s Mike De Rosa Hits a Home Run!
  • 1,000 White Pelicans, One GYL, and No Rare Bird Sightings
  • On First Mates and Bad Weather in Homer
  • Determining Your Minimum Handholding Shutter Speed
  • Which is the Better Head Shot?
  • Creating Pleasing Juxtapositions, AF Strategies for Verticals, Motion Blur Stuff, and Getting the Right Exposure
  • Can You Believe That I Had to Zoom Out for This One?
  • Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge in a Nutshell
  • Mind Boggling 70-200mm f/2.8 Versatility. And Drive-by Handheld Roadside Shooting
  • Red Wind Alert
  • On Breaking Wavelets
  • Joe McNally in pictures & words, but mostly words …
  • A First for Me. Sony 200-600 /w1.4X TC! What a Difference 43 Seconds (or less) Can Make. San Diego IPT #3 Changes
  • Nikon Z9. How Much Can You Learn in a Single Morning?
  • Killer Lioness Image
  • Two Square Sunny Bald Eagles. Which one is best?
  • The Mega-rare Shorebird on the Second Fort DeSoto IPT
  • Is Larger-in-the-Frame Always Better?
  • Used Canon R, RF, and EF Gear. And a BAA Canon Classic
  • What to do at Sebastian in the absence of diving Ospreys
  • Dorsal Flight Pano Crop
  • One of the Nicest Things About Pacific-race Brown Pelicans
  • Spectacular Flight Pose of Sandwich Tern as Cruise Missile
  • Photos from a Bad (?) Morning Session at Fort DeSoto
  • When Shutter Priority Mode is Just Fine
  • Dead as a Doornail, But Beautiful

    • April 7th, 2019 |

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