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BOOF Pictures
Garryowen, MT, July 2025 If you read about wildlife photography, you might run into the acronym BIF, and you might see that it is the “Holy Grail” of wildlife photography. BIF stands for “Birds in Flight”. It is a difficult, aggravating, and time consuming form of wildlife photography. If often requires a great deal of…
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The Glamorous Night Life of State Parks
Custer State Park, SD, July 2025 See the glamorous night life of Custer State Park in Blur-o-Vision (patent pending)! Kate and John sat through an hour long park presentation about nocturnal animals. It was definitely geared towards kids, and the yammering and squalling kids made it hard to hear the presentation. Mostly, we learned that…
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Needles Highway and Custer
Custer State Park & Custer City, SD, July 2025 Today started out with John inspecting the roof for potential tree damage. John wanted to do this before the upcoming rainfall since a small portion of the roof was scraped by trees when we were backing into the site. Fortunately, the roof looked good and did…
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Wildlife Visitor Center Custer State Park
Custer State Park, SD, July 2025 John would tell you that I have an obsession with 2 things. Post cards and cancel stamps. I did not collect my cancel stamp when we went to the visitor center at the entrance of the park because I was out of cancel stamp pages in my book. At…
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North Yellowstone Day 37: Part 2
Yellowstone National Park, WY, June 2025 This is part two of our drive to north Yellowstone. Part one has not been posted, yet. These are the pictures that I took with the Canon T7i for comparison to the Canon R7. For this day, the Canon R7 was set to electronic shutter and high speed burst…
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Jewel Cave National Monument & Canyon Hike
Jewel Cave National Monument, SD, July 2025 There are 3 national monuments within an hour of Custer State Park. The monuments are Jewel Cave National Monument, Wind Cave National Monument and Mount Rushmore National Monument. Jewel Cave has a .25 mile, 3.5 mile, and 5.5 mile hike near it. The .25 miles hike starts and…
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Mountain Meadow Wool Mill
Buffalo, WY, July 2025 Last time we were in Buffalo, Wyoming, I wanted to visit the Mountain Meadow Wool Mill. Unfortunately, we were not able to visit because we were only in town for 5 nights and we didn’t have time. So, I had drag John to the mill along with the other errands of…
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More Canon R7 Testing
Garryowen, MT, July 2025 Yes, more camera testing. Just a warning. This post has some technical concepts for photography that may or may not make sense. Before that, more Western Kingbirds! We think there is a Western Kingbird nest in the tree beside our RV. The two birds in the tree are very loud and…
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Bighorn National Forest (North)
Burgess Junction, WY, July 2025 We stayed at Garryowen, MT because Kate wanted to drive the Northern Route through Bighorn National Forest on Route 14. Route 14 through the forest is almost 60 miles south of Garryowen and about 35 miles long. In total, it is about 2 hours of driving, each way, due to…
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Angry Birds at 7th Ranch
Garryowen, MT, July 2025 John has been trying to test the Canon R7 against the Canon T7i, so he went back out after the storm to take more pictures of the angry baby bird. He got further proof of this birds utter lack of survival instinct because it was now being angry in the middle…