Windows? use windows explorer to copy or move files and folders to your Amazon drive. Start the process before bed and wake up to a completed job. Amazon prime ? free backup of all your photos if you put them in the photo folder on your Amazon drive. otherwise counts as data against your cap, or so I have been told. The Amazon app did not "search" my drives for photos, I had to copy them to my Amazon drive. I have a 4 bay SAN and a 4 bay NAS and only use Amazon as my off site backup. To put (copy or move) photos on my Amazon drive they must first be on my laptop, something always fails when I try to copy from external storage.

Thank you Sue

Thank you Dek, I hope there will still be a few "dwarf poinciana" in Florida come Monday. If you are sheltering in place I hope it is high and dry. Stay well and post a few when it is safe.

Thanks for the idea Deborah, I will grab the seed pods and give it a try. Pride of Barbados is listed as one of its names,
funny how each area has it own name for the same guy. We have it on one end of the yard and Lantana on the other .
Can spend the days watching the Hummers, Butterflies and Orioles flirt back and forth between two.

Thank you AzPicLady. I googled them, (when looking for help with gophers),planted them and offer anecdotal evidence.
We live next to a golf course and I planted them over the "gopher highway" to my garden. We had three or more gophers climb out of their burrows and lie twitching on the ground. The best part being this is the first summer with no gophers in the garden. I know anecdotal information at best, but I enjoy the thought of deadly beauty nonetheless.

Thank you Tikva, not only the same size but looks to be better feed and complaining....all to familliar lol.

Thanks GLC , I think it is a "Daddy long legs" in her mouth

Thank you Carol

Thank you Angela k , you must use the latin? name to find it a garden book or in the store. This plant kills gophers (roots contain and seed pod contain a poison) Thanks for the kind words.

Mexicana Bird of Paradise

Its been a joy since June
So I will try to convey
In a few pictures
what words can not say

Mexican Bird of Paradise


Orioles like it (mom is feeding her young)

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Hummers love it

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It is a long ways from Crater lake to the wineries, if going to Napa wineries then Muir woods for the Redwoods and don't miss the ares around the north end of the Golden Gate. If going to the Amador Sutter wineries then Calaveras Big trees for the Redwoods (different than coastal) and numerious small towns and cave tours. The likelihood of smoke interference from the big fires kind of rules out stops near Cresent city for the Redwoods, but you could still get great shots of the Roosevelt elk in that general area. Hope this helps.

To your first sentence; you CC subscription includes AB (adobe bridge) IMHO the fastest easiest way to cull. After downloading start bridge, set to display large thumbnails, highlight the first file and tap the space bar to bring a full screen picture. Right arrow for next picture full screen and delete key to cull. From there you can import to LR or CTRL + R (PC) to start AR (adobe raw). AR is not as powerful as LR but you might like to give it a try, both are non destructive editors and fully compatible (the edits of one show up and can be reversed in the other). Personally I find key wording to be the best way to organize across numerous storage devices/locations. Because my storage is so varied, (numerous ED's, a NAS, google, amazon, flicker & others) I have issues with LR's catalog. My memory of what when and where is questionable at best, so I found key wording to be more reliable than date, location.

you will find the answer to this and other questions that will arise in the link. http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/cheetsheets-for-photographers/

Your a better man than I Nalu. I can only imagine the your amazing dexterity, adjusting aperture, shutter speed and iso all the while keeping a bird in flight in sharp focus. When you shoot in manual does that also include manual focus? amazing. I often help my auto focus with minor adjustment to the focus ring with the ring finger of my left hand and zoom with the thumb and fore finger. Do you do the same and adjust aperture, shutter and iso with your right hand while holding back button focus?

I shoot manual a lot, but I use all the tools available to me when required, I find it increase the number of keepers by doing so.

I have/use different techniques with different cameras. The first few were shot with my Rebel and it's kit lens 55-250. the lightest setup, but lacking in "reach". JPEG's from the camera, cropped in DPP.

With the 7D I prefer to use priority modes and bracket. With a fast, large, CF card and no buffer problems its kind of a "spray and pray" technique. Auto Iso with limits set and depending on purpose (DOF or stop motion) I use aperture or shutter priority. The Wigeons taking flight was shot in aperture priority with 2 stop bracketing. The lens was a 400mm 5.6 without IS.

The Eagles were captured with my 5DSR, 100-400 mkll. This is a very heavy setup with buffer overrun issues and requires a very different approach than the 7D. I find that when I try to stay rigid and solid the majority of the pictures will be blurry, but when I do not worry about stability, and stay lose and fluid, the majority of my pic's are acceptable. With both the 7D and 5DSR I prefer CR2 (raw) and pp in cc. Blurry out of focus shots are for me unsalvageable, all others retain glimmers of hope.
If I think about composition, I will blow highlights. If I concentrate on exposure I blow composition. With BIF its kinda of take what you got and be happy, for now.

Brown

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Turkey Vulture

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Wigeon taking flight

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Bald Eagle

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