I was on the verge of deleting todays unwanted email when I felt compelled to look at an email from Demotivators. 20 minutes and nearly $100.00 later I’m still laughing and probably making Mike roll his eyes as I read some of them outloud. Today’s favorite is Government. I originally figured on just buying the t-shirt but ended up with 4 government mugs, 1 sanity mug, 1 hope mug, 1 quality mug and for Mike 1 procrastination mug. Unlike my pessimist mug these are microwave safe. Or so they say. The government mugs are for most of the docs I work with the others will be a free for all, although I’m not sure anyone else has my sense of humor. I guess that’s a good thing.
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Last weekend we went down to Sachuest NWR in Middletown to shoot. The weather had been pretty miserable on Saturday but Sunday was pretty nice so we headed down to the shore. Near Second beach we saw this young Red Tail sitting on a pole watching the field mice and the people pushing strollers below him:
Red Tail Hawk
He was unconcerned enough to let us get fairly close to his pole and set up our tripods to take about 30 images before he decided to take off. Next was the sanctuary itself, and the winds were just howling out of the west at close to 40 knots which changed our plans from walking the perimeter path around the entire sanctuary to just heading to where the docent had told me that the harlequins were. There were quite a few fishermen at the spots we had seen the harlequins before so we moved west a bit and found about a dozen drakes chasing 2 females. To keep the my shutter speed high enough to freeze the action in the very choppy water my depth of field was very shallow so it was either the drakes or the females, and in these two cases the drakes won:
Drake Harlequin Ducks
Drake Harlequins
We drove over to the Third Beach parking lot to see if anything was at the Third Beach Restoration area and it was pretty quiet. We saw the Northern Harrier we had been tracking at Sachuest but it was still to far to get any good images but as I was getting ready to get back in the car this pair of Mallards flew up out of the reeds:
Drake and female mallard
I hate Eastern Standard Time. It was getting dark as we got home and so this image of an adult red tail sitting on the roof of the house across the street from ours watching the kids below play soccer in their yard was taken with the ISO pushed to 800, and even at that it is dark.
Red Tail Hawk
Went to this class on Friday and all I can say is wow! I usually have trouble staying awake during a class, although most that I go to are work related and not photography related. Ben Willmore was great and present things with great explainations to why and how and I learned more than I thought I would. Now I just have to remember some of it and put it to work. Which means that I have to get my act in gear and finally finish and post some of the images I took last weekend.
Google launched voice and video chat within it’s Google chat and gmail today. I guess the rumours that Google was going to buy Skype were just that
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