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Published: November 19th 2008
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Sandhill Cranes
Early morning flight. My time here at Bosque is flying by - pardon the pun! I’m having a great time here even though it seems like there are fewer birds here than last year. In addition, the Sandhill Cranes seem to be taking off BEFORE sunrise and flying back into the ponds AFTER sunset.
As a result much of the time I’m trying to shoot in very low light. As you will see in my images posted with today’s entry, I’ve been trying to get some pan blur images. I’m pretty happy with a few I’ve gotten.
Sunday evening when editing images I noticed a disturbing dark curved line in many images I was processing. After considerable pondering, emailing a couple of photography friends for suggestions and inputs, extensive testing and a conversation with Canon Tech Support, I concluded my primary camera body (and the one BEST suited for bird flight photography) has a problem with the shutter at high speeds. Unfortunately high shutter speed is a key factor in capturing sharp images of birds in flight.
Thank goodness for a spare camera body. I believe I am still capturing good images with my backup. I’ll wait until after I return
Kill Deer
Just another example of other birds you see here at Bosque. There were lots of these feeding in the front of the crane pond yesterday. home to send my camera to Canon for repairs. It doesn’t exhibit any problems at shutter speeds I normally use for landscape and general travel photography.
Workshop has been informative thus far and we have a knowledgeable set of instructors. Today was a full day and the next two promise more of the same.
It’s possible this will be my last post before I start the journey back home. So if you wonder why I’m not updating my travels in the next few days that’s why.
Hope you enjoy these images from the past several days. Thanks for checking in.
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