In a world of so many great photographers and writers, I am venturing into some unknown territories, leaving comfort zones, finally very willing to practice the art of seeing. By maintaining the practice of posting daily photos, I hope to continue learning about the possibilities that I trust are out there for the taking.
Ray went for a golf lesson today. Then he went and hit some balls. Back home from the driving range, I could tell he wasn’t too happy. So I asked if he’d like to go out and play some holes. And we did, until it got too cold once the sun set. I’m so lucky I can pick up a golf club after months of not playing and hit the ball (somewhat acceptably).
Out playing golf, well, when I'm not trying to pan shooting the egrets.
Sand shot just before the sun set and we stopped playing.
Orange Variant Finch - female. I think. 4:30pm seems to be a consistent time for feeding, as is 9:30am.
Ray and I went out around 4:30pm for some windy golf. I brought the 400mm lens. This Great Northern Egret fly up and landed on a nearby house. Ray clapped his hands and the bird took flight.
Carol spotted this egret on our walk around Mission Hills CC in the misting rain.
Ann and Ray at Borders in LA this afternoon.
Both photos were shot with my new Nikon CoolPix P7000. The first photo was captured using ISO 400. The second using ISO 800. Won’t be using these high ISO’s anymore. Noise galore!
I spent over 10 hours today watching the 2nd day of a 3 day FREE Live Zach Arias Photography Studio Lighting Workshop. This three day workshop features studio lighting using white seamless backdrops, stages, models, and bands with Q&A and critique rounds to fill it all out. Today’s day long session was information, so much so that it took the mystery out of flash photography. I am so glad I watched it. (6/15/10 – Added the photo taken on last day.)
Chase Jarvis and Zach Arias.
Tomorrow’s session will be a little faster paced where he’ll be shooting and letting us know what’s going on in his head but his focus will be on the “models (ie clients) and not on us like it was today. There were 17,000 people online all over the world watching this broadcast. Everyone was chatting and tweeting online raving about how grateful they were for all they were learning from this free broadcast. I definitely felt as excited and grateful as they did.
After the end of the workshop, Zach is making the 3 sessions available but for a charge. He offered the sessions as a download for a lower cost if pre-ordered before the end of tomorrow. I pre-order so I can go back and watch it.
I did walk outside around 430pm for about 10 minutes to give myself a break from watching the workshop since 10am this morning. I was in a hurry to get back inside so shot off a couple of shots using the 70-200mm lens. These bird shots are cropped a lot as the egrets don’t let me get too close to them before they fly away.
This guy had about had it with me approaching and fly off 2 seconds after this shot.
I invaded his personal space and comfort level.
We don't normally have clouds that look like this. It was a very humid day today.
Ended my afternoon walk when I spotted these guys.
Testing zoomed shots.
A highly cropped shot with a Topaz deNoise filter added.