Posts for: Mr. B
Mar 11, 2024 08:58:39 #
imagemeister wrote:
Since I retired in 2011, I have some nice shots of Great Egrets in breeding plumage ......but the Snowys in great plumage have always eluded me on the very few opportunities I have had over the years !
This from yesterday with the Sony A9 and Tamron 150-600 G2 @ 600mm f8 from monopod and heavy crop in cloudy/open shade ....
Thanks to ALL for stopping by and commenting ! .....Larry
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This from yesterday with the Sony A9 and Tamron 150-600 G2 @ 600mm f8 from monopod and heavy crop in cloudy/open shade ....
Thanks to ALL for stopping by and commenting ! .....Larry
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Mar 11, 2024 08:53:53 #
Mar 10, 2024 12:18:30 #
Basil wrote:
Well, thanks, but after several tries, I managed to get the camera tethered with a USB cable, but then the Eclipse Maestro program told me that my Canon R5 camera is not supported. Argggg!
If it isn't one thing, it's another! I had a similar support problem with my older version of Lightroom and ended up switching to Luminar Neo. Good luck!
Mar 10, 2024 07:45:06 #
I can't help you but someone may be able to if you move your post to the Main Photography Discussion instead of the Astronomical Photography section. You'll get more views there.
Mar 9, 2024 07:50:16 #
Fredstersphotos wrote:
I was at the Coast Guard Station at Jones Beach out of the corner of my eye I see this beauty he landed on this perch and stayed long enough for me to get a bunch of shots. There were quite a few of them. Canon EOS 1D Mark IIn F 5.6 ISO 200, 1/500s Canon 500mm F4, Handheld.
Beautiful shot. But that's an Indigo Bunting. Very similar to the grosbeak. Still, a fairly uncommon bird.
Mar 9, 2024 07:41:16 #
Mar 9, 2024 07:35:20 #
billnikon wrote:
There are many sites on the internet that will allow you to read how folks rated both trips, you will find many many replies there.
Since you only have a couple of days I'd rent a car and stay on the Kenai Peninsula. Check out Exit Glacier about 10 miles from town, tour the Seavy sled dog kennels and tour.Drive up to Soldotna and Kenai village and check out the Russian Orthodox church and cemetery, drive south to Anchor Point (the westernmost driveable point in the USA) and photograph eagles. Continue south to Homer and Homer Spit.
A second route would be to check out the aforementioned Seward sights and then drive north to Portage and Girdwood (tram there to the top of the mountain) and continue up scenic Turnagain Arm to Anchorage. Check out the fantastic Anchorage Museum, the Army-Navy Store (where you can buy almost virtually anything for a wilderness trip) and have lunch at Humpy's on 6th Avenue. Try the halibut sandwich.
If you do take the train ride instead, check out the museums in Talkeetna, the gateway to Denali. Be forewarned that your chances of seeing Mt. Denali are slim if you have only one day. The Great One makes a lot of her own weather. I've spent days in Kantishna in the heart of the Park with no view and then have a brilliant day where you can photograph her with no cloud interference.
I'll say one more thing. A cruise or train ride is AOK. But you'll never, ever truly experience Alaska without driving or doing a flyout or two. So far I have a paltry 5,000 mile Alaska driving record and 17 days in the bush. Alaska is huge!
Mar 6, 2024 06:29:33 #
Mar 6, 2024 06:26:50 #
KTJohnson wrote:
My previous post brought up the subject of knives. I've always been fascinated by them since I was a little kid, perhaps that's why my grandfather gave some of his to me instead of some of his other grandkids.
Pictured below is one in which he made the blade out of an old file ground down. I have no idea where he got the handle. If he told me, I've forgotten that part. The name is no one in our family that I know of. This one is really quite ornate.
Pictured below is one in which he made the blade out of an old file ground down. I have no idea where he got the handle. If he told me, I've forgotten that part. The name is no one in our family that I know of. This one is really quite ornate.
I, too, have always loved knives. Most especially Scandinavian knifes of which I have more than a few. I looked up the Digre last name and found that the greatest concentration of that name is about one in sixty-five thousand in Norway.
Your specimen is a jewel of primitive art.
Mar 5, 2024 16:07:55 #
dennis2146 wrote:
Gracias Amigo.
I don’t carry a firearm because I am afraid but because I have common sense and refuse to be a victim. I pray I may never have to use it. Taking someone’s life would be devastating and the legalities afterward a nightmare even if I was fully in the right. But losing my life would be worse.
Dennis
I don’t carry a firearm because I am afraid but because I have common sense and refuse to be a victim. I pray I may never have to use it. Taking someone’s life would be devastating and the legalities afterward a nightmare even if I was fully in the right. But losing my life would be worse.
Dennis
Dennis,
Spot on.
Alton
Mar 5, 2024 14:19:03 #
whatdat wrote:
Perhaps to gauge the size of an object being photographed?
??? He's a wedding photographer!
Mar 5, 2024 11:01:07 #
47greyfox wrote:
Do those who carry pistols when they are out “shooting,” have you ever saw the need to use them in any way or discharge them?
Not yet, thank God. It's a last ditch insurance policy.
Mar 5, 2024 07:37:21 #
billnikon wrote:
When I did wedding photography, I carried 20 colors of thread, 3 bobby pin colors, a toy car and a quarter, and two bottles of water.
Okay, you got me. What was the quarter for?
Mar 5, 2024 07:34:59 #
Dennis833 wrote:
We only have Teddy Bears in Australia.
Yes, but from what I've heard, they can be nasty little buggers!
Mar 5, 2024 07:32:42 #
BebuLamar wrote:
Uhm I don't have a camera bag. I used to carry a 1911 back before 1975 but I was very bad. I couldn't hit a pop can at 30feet.
With a lot of the old .45 ACPs that would be perfectly normal. Now, if you couldn't hit a six-pack at 30 feet...