Day 5. Sunday 16th September A thick layer of mist hung over the coast and main road to Tarifa as we took an early breakfast. Driving a short distance onto the old military land, now being used by Fundación Migres, we left in the mini-bus and decided to have a look at the physical layout […]
Enjoying Fall & Birding!
Tuesday October 1: It was a misty morning at Petrie Island, Always An Adventure’s first official birding excursion this fall. The fog lingered a bit thorough the first hours of the day, but vanished and gave room for blue skies and sunshine. We had Merlin, Rusty Blackbirds, Green Heron, American Bitter and a young Bald […]
Liberated from Gravity
Starlings bound together in mid-flight, liberated from gravity with no time to stop and wonder. • Starling | Sturnus vulgaris
Canon EF 300mm f/2.8L IS II USM Review
After several outings with the 300/2.8, I’ve come to realise what an improvement this new version of the lens is over the Mk I. I’ve also identified the strengths and weaknesses of using both the 1.4x TC Mk III and 2x TC Mk III. Firstly, the lens used at its native focal length has no […]
The Wedge Pack, a Washington State Wolf Pack, Exterminated Because Of One Arrogant Rancher
The gray wolf is an endangered species throughout Washington under state law and is endangered under federal law in the western two-thirds of the state. Wolves were once common throughout most of Washington, but declined rapidly from being aggressively killed during the expansion of ranching and farming between 1850 and 1900. Wolves were eliminated as […]
UK Aurora Borealis
The autumn equinox has passed in the northern hemisphere at around the 21st September and at this timeearth’stwo hemispheres arereceiving12 hours of daylight and 12 of darkness. The name equinox comes from theLatinname aequus meaning equal and nox (night). The equality does not last for long as the darkness soon takes over here in the […]
Guest Blog on SouthAfrica.Net
I was recently asked to do a guest blog post on some of our National Parks and Game Reserves for the official South African Tourism Blog (located at www.southafrica.net). You can read the short essay (with images) here Cheers Morkel Erasmus
Photoshop Technique – Digital Eye Repair
Building on my last post about the benefits of using a flash bracket I thought that I would post about some of the techniques that I use to “clean up” the eyes of the birds that I photograph using Adobe Photoshop. Before moving forward it is important to recognize that, in most cases, the birds […]