These were taken on a trip to Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge in January of 2019. I was having trouble getting sharp images with my Fuji X-T3 and Fuji 100-400 mm lens and ended up throwing most of them away. I’ve since learned to shoot a faster shutter speed and to also turn the image stabilizer…
The Olympia Camera Club takes a field trip each month. When winter comes, it’s a bit difficult to take trips that involve outside photography, so this month we took a trip to Seattle to the Butterfly House at the Seattle Science Center. Chasing butterflies around the hothouse wasn’t too difficult as there were plenty just…
Not much I can say about these. I mounted the Nikon 105mm f/2.8 and went out to the backyard in search of flowers It was the first time I’ve mounted this macro lens on the Nikon D800E and I was very pleased with the results.
I haven’t used the Nikon 200-400mm f/4 since February when I shot Snowy Owls so I decided to take it on a walk to McLane Nature Trail to look for ducks. As it turned out, there weren’t many ducks and the few Wood Ducks I did see had lost all their color since it was…
On our Eastern Sierra Photo Workshop we spent a full day in the ghost town of Bodie, California. Bodie is now a state park and is registered as a California registered historical landmark. A plaque placed by the California State Park Commission in 1964 reads: Gold was discovered here in 1859 by W. S. Bodey…
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…
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