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Sessions have been on hiatus for a week, while we get some repairs done to an outside staircase. We will have a session tomorrow (10th), but that will be it until the 19th. Meantime, I shot for a few...
View ArticleAnother great session
We had 3 photographers here yesterday afternoon, and all were successful in making some stunning images. All of them managed to capture pictures of two Costa’s hummingbirds that have been eluding the...
View ArticleExperimenting with flowers and lenses
This evening I shot for an hour or so at the Fotronix setup, but played things a little different. I placed some colorful flowers at the set, and instead of using my trusty old Canon 100-400mm lens, I...
View ArticleA hot one yesterday…..
90 degree heat confronted my students yesterday afternoon….Undaunted, they went about making some stunning images during the workshop, even early on, when the birds were a little sparse in number….As...
View ArticleA More Advanced Approach…
During my workshops, I stress that it is the quality of light that makes an impressive image, and this is certainly the case with hummingbirds. The problem is for the workshop, the more you improve the...
View ArticleSometimes you get a little lucky….
It is oft said, ‘the harder I practice, the luckier I get’. There is no better example of that than photography. The more pictures you take, the better you become at taking them….Not only do you become...
View ArticleIncorporating all we have learned…..
Students who have been on my workshops know just how much time, effort and energy is involved in achieving images like the ones I shot this afternoon…..(see below). Shooting hummingbirds amongst...
View ArticleIf you think there might not be enough hummers to shoot…..
Right now, I am producing over 10 gallons of sugar water per week to feed the local hummingbirds. I am refilling 6 x 72 ounce feeders every other day, so it is a pretty industrial affair. It is fairly...
View ArticleRemote Photography Workshop on November 8th for the Thousand Oaks Photo Group
TOPCC Photo Group Workshop “Photography using remote triggering devices is fun and simple!” Ever wondered…… 1) How natural history photographers capture those eye-level close up images of...
View ArticleRemote Photography…..
My previous post mentions (shouts, actually) about my upcoming workshop on Remote Photography, to be held at the Thousand Oaks Library at 6.30pm, November 8th. Yet this blog is supposedly here to...
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