Oh Ocellated, Where Art Thou?
Several readers have emailed me to ask, “What’s going on? Why no posts?” While I’ve been a little busy, the truth is, I’ve gotten something which gives blogging a little competition for my loyalty.
This is a Canon EOS 30D digital SLR with Canon’s EF 100-400mm f4.5/5.6 telephoto lens (for those that care about the equipment). For those that don’t, let’s just explain it this way. It’s a camera that can take pictures really fast (5 shots a second) and makes things big with the lens.
It can produce pictures like this…
Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus)
I’ve put up some of my initial shots in the gallery for your enjoyment. With the new camera, you can expect to see more wildlife shots, especially of birds. I’ve also increased the size of the pictures in the gallery, to better showcase my work*.
These initial shots are just that — initial. I’m still trying to learn a lot about photography with a camera such as this, and expect that my pictures will only get better as I become more comfortable and experienced with the camera.
Also, real blogging will resume shortly… Thanks for your patience in allowing me to take this break.
Jay, your initial shots are good. Looking forward to the professional ones coming. Luv ya
Really cool bobcat photos! The second photo where he’s staring directly at the camera appeared a little washed out on my monitor although the face was in perfect lighting. Apparently the way to photograph bobcats is at midday while playing golf or taking pictures of prairie dogs!
Ah, New Toy Syndrome. I know it well, having just bought myself a gorgeous 24″ flat-panel monitor.
Any chance you could post the turkey vulture and the head-on bobcat shot in 1920×1200 resolution? They’d look great on the new monitor.
if you’ve never been to http://www.photo.net, now is the time – I can’t tell you how much I have learned (big and small) from the people and posts on that site….
What do think I’ve been reading last week JLem? Certainly not my normal blogs.
BTW JLem, I looked at your pictures yesterday and meant to tell you — some of them are fantastic!
Thanks Jay. You caught the website during its last few moments before renovations. For now, more of my photos can be seen in my Photo.net galleries. I hadn’t updated the main site in a long while, so you’ll see a lot more and varied photos over at Photo.net.
Very nice indeed JLem. I now have something to aspire too.
I got a kick out of this picture with that puddle looking remarkably like the shape of Australia. (Please, no Australians flaming me in disagreement). Sure it’s missing Tasmania, but that what it struck me as when I saw it.