Oh Ocellated, Where Art Thou?

Posted Aug 8th, 2006 at 10:53 am in Life in General, Photography | 8 Comments

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.

Canon EOS 30d with 100-400 zoom lens

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
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.

* People running low screen resolutions (like 800×600) may not be able to see all of a portrait shot without scrolling. The vast majority of monitors on computers sold within the last few years support a minimum resolution of 1024×768, so if you don’t like the bigger pictures, you might increase your resolution.

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