This week I bought a “new, used” camera. I found a Nikon D3S with very low shutter actuations for sale on Craigslist. I wanted the D3S for its 11 frames per second burst mode to help in capturing birds in flight. I mounted it with my 70-200mm and headed down to Percival Landing to practice…
In January Dale and I went on a photo workshop with Jack Lien to La Jolla, CA to photograph wildlife. The stars were the Brown Pelicans, but we saw quite a few other sea birds, sea lions and seals as well. Here is a sampling of some of my pelican shots. For the complete gallery,…
For a couple years now we’ve taken mini-camping trips to Westport in October. The weather at this time of year can be absolutely stunning, and we were not disappointed this year. The skies were so blue that I thought they looked almost fake in my photos. This year we camped at the Twin Harbor’s State…
Every March I take about 3 1/2 weeks away form home to volunteer for the Iditarod Sled Dog Race in Anchorage, Alaska. I coordinate a group of other volunteers to get the race data collected from the checkpoints and post it to the Internet. My office works 24/7, but in recent years I’ve been able…
Around here it’s usually pretty cold and nasty in February. You never know when a nice day might come along, but if it does, you’d best get outside and enjoy it because it might be weeks before you see the sun again. So here it was February 6 and the sun was shining. I took…
Before buying our Rialta in October of 2010 we camped in either a little teardrop trailer or our 1985 Volkswagen Westfalia camper van. We knew we had out grown the teardrop and sold that right after buying the Rialta. But the Westy has remained in our garage unused and somewhat neglected. We knew we should…
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