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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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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…
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Hayden Valley Day 35: Part 1
Yellowstone National Park, WY, June 2025 Back to the inadequate pictures… These were the first test pictures of the day, after John realized the Canon R7 was not performing as well as he expected. John believes that the only change for these pictures was using the smaller “Spot Auto-focus” instead of the “Single Point Auto-focus”.…
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Yellowstone National Park Day 37
Yellowstone National Park, WY, June 2025 This was a very long day. We left at 8 am and did not make it back home until after 8 pm. We immediately grabbed our shower gear and left again. Finally, we were back in the trailer for the night around 9 pm which would 10 pm central…
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Yellowstone National Park Day 35: Part 3
Yellowstone National Park, WY, June 2025 This was attempt number two to get decent pictures. The day was still sunny, so the light was decent for pictures on the water. At this point, John realized that the “One-Point Auto-Focus” was not one point. He changed up some of the configurations to turn animal tracking on…
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Yellowstone National Park Day 35: Part 4
Yellowstone National Park, WY, June 2025 (If you want to skip the sad camera lament, feel free to skip to the pictures.) Rant This is the tale of the third trip out. This trip was not a complete disaster, but the pictures from the Canon EOS R7 are less often properly focused than the Canon…
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I See Fire!
Guernsey State Park, WY, May 2025 Well, not really. It looks like a volcano erupted and a lava flow is coming for you or maybe a raging forest fire in the distance. This was the sunset on the day before we left Guernsey State Park. The sky was overcast with low clouds, so the sunset…
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March Blood Moon
Foss Lake State Park, OK A blood moon occurs during a total lunar eclipse, when the moon is on the night side of the earth (i.e., opposite side of the earth as the sun.) It is called a blood moon due to the reddish cast of the moon as it passes into the earth’s shadow.…
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Day 1 – Lake Thunderbird State Park, OK Sunset
We have a great view of the lake from our trailer dining room take. Though these pictures were taken as we were talking around the park.
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Wind, Sand and Sunsets. Oh My..
Foss State Park is currently under a draught warning, always has winds and has beautiful red soil. The area has been known as the dust bowl and hit hard in the 1930s where the dust storm devastated the Great Plains. We got to experience 3 alerts all at the same time. The alerts related to…