This place is just nuts. Look at all the stones in the background there, nothing but, and reeds, and birds. Can't wait to see this place with a bit of mist and fog. Check back a few pictures, I've only just started posting from this area which is going to be very fertile!

I like little island chains like this a lot. Sometimes I photograph them for references.

Nice photo! I like the angle you've chosen here

But I don't got one thing: Why did you used f25 & ISO 320? You could have used a wider aperture and reduced the ISO to get even lower levels of noise... Can you explain your point to me?

Aaaaah! Know what? Just this eve I noticed that I'd had the ISO (which I very rarely change) up a bit to get enough light to make this picture easier. As is, you can see I still had a lot of trouble and a fairly unsatisfactory result (but there you go).

My fatigue level is fairly high, made bearable by my nice and legal prescription for amphetamines. Just checked, 15'th I was on site before sunup for that moon reflecting in water picture, long session that morning, went home, offloaded pics, went to town and took care of a multitude of thingies (made a sale!), took Gracie to the cliffs as it's on the way home (good session there), went home, took care of life, worked editing pictures all night, went out on the 16'th, first pic says 7:20 am, this is shot #771 and was taken at 9:30 am. Soooo, by the time I got to this I was probably thinking "Please god, don't give me anymore cool and pretty things to photograph. I really just wanna go home, eat and crash!"

I've got much better color correction for Lightroom now, compensation for it's guesswork at reading Nikon raw files. Run ragged though, need to do lots of post and almost hope for overcast mornings, but I'm still going to get while the getting's good at every opportunity. Increases your chances for that killer shot of geese or other birds, almost had one tonight but unfortunately I was all set up for macro. Oh for a combo lens that would encompass the range of mine! Me bud has an awesome lens, range of something like 24mm-210

I got it now Thanks for the explanation.

Also, it sucks when you are all set for a kind of photo and then the situation changes... I know how frustrating it is... But I would prefer to carry 3 lens instead of one with long range... just for better quality... Personal choice ya know...

Plans for the future:
All Canon:
EF 16-35mm f2.8L USM (near future)
EF 24-70mm f2.8L USM (far future)
EF 70-200mm f2.8L IS USM (far far far far far far future )

Woot! All charged up after a dip into the city. Fall migration is starting and the main rule of the game is persistence persistence!

part of me wishes i was only a few millimeters tall and could live on one

Oh you should see a few of the macroscapes on the horizon... Just like "Birdopolis", these look great at differing scales.

well i saw birdopolis already and liked it and am again trying to work my way back through over a year of submissions. only
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