I was shooting Ospreys yesterday when I got the RWBB first going after a great Blue Heron and then really going after an Osprey.

Here is a normally white Trillium and a germinated Pink Trillium and a bee doing nectar duties.

No: The insurance company's insisted on it to keep people from standing on the wall. I've photographed thru the 70's when there was no fence. I've got great sequences of Rich Vogler's flip when he was driving the #43 car. I've got Sheldon Kinser running into King Kramer and Pancho Carter in a midget. I've also shot World of Outlaws when the fence was erected by standing a platform I built over my pickup side rails. However from that height all you get is the top of the cars wings. When I was there in 1990 they would not let me take my little pickup into the infield. They said I had to walk in carrying thousand's of dollars in camera and lens through the mud and what if it rains?
So thanks to the insurance company's I haven't been there in 32 years.

The last time I was there in 1990 they had put a chain link fence on the inside wall and in effect ruined all photography from the inside. I hope something has changed over the last 32 years.

On the 2 with stopped wings I was at 1/4000 with fill flash at -2.7 stops. I've got high speed sync set all the time

I stopped out at a close metro park yesterday afternoon to shoot hummers. The action around the feeder looked interesting so I shot that while I was waiting for the hummingbird to arrive. The first two hummer shots I used 1/2000 and the last two I used 1/4000 sec.

Here are a Yellow, Prothonotary, Yellow-breasted Chat, Blackburnian, Magnolia, and Palm. The Prothonotary looks like a good candidate for a Hair Club membership.

Here are a few images from the 215 image sequence I shot yesterday. The Cormorant tryed to turn the fish 90 deg so he could swallow it. Finally he dove underwater where he must have either lost the fish or it got away. When the Cormorant surfaced without the fish he flew west along the river. After some time has passed he flew back in with a fish but landed out of my view.
I used my D3s and 600mm F:4g VR and a TC 1.4 EII for a total focal length of 850mm, that's what my meta data tells me.

Last Monday I went to one of our many metro parks and called in the Indigo Bunting. For these I used a Nikon D3s and 600mm F:4g VR and SB-910 fill flash.

Here are a couple of images of the Bearded Iris in front of my kitchen. For these I used my 13 year old D3 and an even older Nikon 70-180mm F:4.5-5.6 AF lens. The first one is a single image, the second image is made with 7 images, the third one took 4 images and the fourth is a single image again. The reason for the lighting difference is these images were taken through out the morning and the lighting was changing through out the morning.

its a bearded iris

These are in front of my kitchen window. They are a blast to photograph but I don't know what they are. Can any of you folks help me out?

I adapted a downed branch from my backyard tree to my small tripod. I cut 2 groves in it to hold the grape jelly and I installed a old camera plate so it would fit the tripod clamp. Orioles and Catbirds look funny eating the jelly.
I set this up at Magee Marsh and when warblers are few we sit in our chairs and shoot the log. This is where the Brown Thrasher came with in 14 feet of my 600mm F:4g VR and D3s. All these were fill flashed using a SB-910.

This Brown Thrasher came within 14 feet of my 600mmF:4gVR and D3s yesterday. It was spectacular shooting.

Here are some of the images I got this year at Magee. It was another slow and cold year with northeast winds. Only last week did it warm up.