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Bosque del Apache 2009 : Thanksgiving 2009 was my first visit to Bosque del Apache NWR in New Mexico. This is a world famous location for bird photography, many thousands of Sandhill Cranes and Snow Geese winter there. The photography was challenging, tracking birds in flight takes a lot of practice. It was a lot of fun despite 4AM starts each morning, I hope to return next Thanksgiving.

Bosque del Apache 2009

Thanksgiving 2009 was my first visit to Bosque del Apache NWR in New M ...

Updated: Dec 06, 2009 4:34pm PST

Ramrod Ranch 2009 : These photos were taken during a weekend workshop at the Ramrod Ranch near Soledad, CA (http://www.incredibletravelphotos.blogspot.com/). I had a great time and plan to go back next year, highly recommended! It was my first attempt shooting from a blind which allowed got us very close to the pond. Some of the birds were very tolerant (or oblivious) of our presence, but others in particular the Titmouse and Wrentit were very nervous and rarely stood still. The Gray Fox was a bonus early on the 2nd morning. Not wanting to make too much noise with many bursts of photos I bumped the ISO to 6400 to maintain a reasonable shutter speed. Maybe I won't do that next time, I had to use aggressive noise reduction which has unfortunately reduced fine detail as well. Always learning... All photos were taken with a Canon 5Dmk2 and 500mm f/4 L IS Lens mostly used wide open. For many shots a 1.4x tele-converter was also used. Fill flash using a 580EX2 and Better Beamer was used for all bird photos with a CP-E4 battery pack to speed recharging. It is easy to see why bird photographers like the 600mm and now the 800mm lens, the smaller birds really are, even at close to minimum focussing distance. Fortunately the 5Dmk2 has plenty of mega-pixels to support cropping.

Ramrod Ranch 2009

These photos were taken during a weekend workshop at the Ramrod Ranch ...

Updated: Oct 21, 2009 1:53pm PST

Hawaii 2009 : I traveled to Hawaii for the first time over Christmas 2009. For this trip I stayed on Big Island attracted by the variety of scenery and of course the Lava! I had a great time, it won't be my last trip there. I used the camera a lot on specific trips such as Lava and Whale watching but most of the time I just explored, this wasn't a fine art photography trip even though I was burdened with a lot of gear! I'm publishing this gallery as a day-byday journal, I'll add some other traditional galleries later. I flew into Kona at night and stayed locally before heading south to Volcano National Park for 2 nights, Hilo for three nights then back around the north of the island to Kailua-Kona for 5 nights.

Hawaii 2009

I traveled to Hawaii for the first time over Christmas 2009. For this ...

Updated: Jan 11, 2010 11:42pm PST

Mountain Light Workshop 2009 : I attended an Eastern Sierra Landscape Workshop organized by Mountain Light Gallery (http://mountainlight.com/) and led by John Shaw (http://johnshawphoto.com/) with the enthusiastic assistance of Jerry Dodrill (http://www.jerrydodrill.com/). We didn't have good weather (for photography!), nothing but clear blue skies, but it was a great learning experience.

Mountain Light Workshop 2009

I attended an Eastern Sierra Landscape Workshop organized by Mountain ...

Updated: Oct 24, 2009 11:44am PST

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