Every few years I venture out onto the ocean to look for birds. I generally get pretty seasick. Then, the Albatross shows up, and it's so friggin' amazing that I forget about everything else. Only a few years later, I'm ready for more. This time, for the first time, I took a camera with me, and tried to take some bird pictures. You can read about our weekend at birdWalker, it was fabulous.
I've had several requests for an on-line version of the pictures I showed at BABP Member Slide Night. So, here you go!
Tonight was my first time to participate in Member Slide Night at the Bay Area Bird Photographers club. We saw images from about six or eight photographers, including Doug Cheeseman. I showed about 28 images from my laptop, including this Red-tailed Hawk which I just shot this morning. A slight majority of the images came from the Dell 3300 DLP projector; the rest were good old fashioned 35mm slides. The slides people had to contend with focussing the projector and not putting their slides in sideways; the laptop people had to contend with video connector adapters and wacky brightness/contrast/color settings, so everyone had their challenges. Altogether, though, it was an impressive body of work, and I came home wired and inspired.
With only hours left before our Photo Challenge deadline, Grant took me along on a visit to CoffeeTec, a local engineering firm that advises and outfits coffee roasters. Jay, the proprietor, was very generous with his time, spending almost an hour showing us around the shop and helping us take pictures of glorious old roasters he's restoring. Thanks, Jay!
My friend Ashok took me to the Hayward Regional Shoreline yesterday, where we discovered that the shorebirds are back! Woo! I had a great time and shot over 200 pictures. The new lens is working great, even delivering sharp images with the 1.4X teleconverter.
