The 5DMk4 has two card slots. Perhaps, depending how you have it set up, when you removed the SD card the camera automatically switched to the other slot, for a CF card. If that card has not been used, then "no image" will be shown, even when you put the SD card back in.

You can have some fun by submitting your photos to www.birdsnap.com and seeing what they say it is. Sometimes they are spot on, other time hilariously far off, depending on the quality and clarity of the photo submitted, I imagine.

Interesting question. I had to look it up, and seems tri-coloreds are only on the far West Coast of the US, and the photo is from The T.M. Goodwin WFMA in Florida. The images of tri-colors I looked at showed all white under the red epaulets and no yellow.

Marshall Smith

I shoot Canon, but ordered the book anyway, since Steve said over half of it was general information useful to any shooter interested in learning how to focus better with a modern digital camera.

$15 well spent. Thanks, Steve.

Marshall Smith

I just looked at my 5DMk4 mirror and it has lines like you described. Don't know what they do but they are obviously a manufactured part of the Canon mirror design or they wouldn't be there.

Whatever you do, please don't try to clean them off!

Marshall Smith

Fran,

You might be interested in this website. This guy covers it all, and I found it very helpful. It's all free, but I was so impressed with his sharing of his knowledge that I sent him some bucks!

http://www.digitalbirdphotography.com/cover.html

Marshall

Blue herons are one of my favorite birds also, and I never get tired of photographing them. Here in central Kentucky they are fairly common and not too hard to find. Shakertown in Harrodsburg has a small riverboat cruise in May that travels past a rookery in the Palisades of the Kentucky river.

For anyone wondering, that is a sycamore tree and the balls are seed pods. Herons favor them for their rookery sites. Must be something about the branch structure.

Keep up the good work!

I believe that's a Brown Thrasher. We see them occasionally at our feeder, too.

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Brown_Thrasher/id

Marshall

Land Between the Lakes is far western Kentucky, and Spudwheat is correct that the Lexington area in the Bluegrass of central Kentucky is the place to go for horses. There are hundreds of working horse farms within a couple of counties, and some of them have tours for the public. Check out the Kentucky Horse Park. Also this site:

http://www.visitlex.com/idea-guide/horse-farm-tours/

Todd,

Oh, yeah! I used to do competitive discdog events and would try to limit "spray and pray" and I'd still come home and face editing thousands of similar images. A bit different with a singular flying bird event and I shoot more liberally there. The IV has been more than enough for me in FPS speed.

Marshall

I shot mainly wildlife and BIF with a 5DMkIII and a 100-400 II with a 1.4TC (max 560mm equivalent). I've had the new 5D IV since it came out and was greatly pleased to find that the AF system is even better now and has full capabilities again at f8 with the 100-400/1.4TC combo.

"When I was on a PC i could look at my photos full screen and see what i had and then just delete them as I looked at them if I didn't want them. Now I shoot a lot of photos when I get the opportunity. I shoot hundreds or thousands a day.

Is there a program out there for a Mac, that will let me look at my photos full screen and delete the ones I don't want before I import them onto my computer and import to lightroom?"

Most of my photography for the past ten years has been event photography at discdog events, several thousand images over a couple of days, that needed to be culled and edited quickly. The best program that I have found is PhotoMechanic, used by sportshooters and other professional photographers.

Check it out at: http://www.camerabits.com/

Good luck. Wonderful wildlife stuff!

Marshall Smith

Are all the photos that you want to organize, both the original ones and the newly uploaded ones, showing on the Organizr screen? They need to be.

There are seven options under the Arrange dropdown, including two that organize by date taken, depending whether you want newest or oldest first. I've been confused by this choice before. Try another one to see if anything changes.

Worse case, you can click and drag individual pics around on the Organizr screen to arrange them.

And Save once you get what you want.

Hope this helps. I just put up a test album and then uploaded more to it. The Organizr was working OK for me.

Bluezzzzz

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Darryl, my event photography in the past ten years has primarily been of discdog competitions, mostly outdoors but some indoors also. You've got a great lens/camera combination and I would recommend that you take advantage of the 5D3's high ISO performance coupled with a high shutter speed.

This shot was taken at an indoor event in 2011, handheld with a 5DMkII, and a 70-200 zoom at 200mm. Auto WB, 1/1000sec; f2.8; ISO 4000.