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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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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 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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March Blood Moon
Foss Lake State Park, OK, March 2025 (Note: In order to see the details of the pictures, they have to be higher resolution. If you click the images, you will have to “go back” to this page.) A blood moon occurs during a total lunar eclipse, when the moon is on the night side of…
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Photography: What is Your Perspective
Lots of people snap pictures of whatever they are looking at: family, pets, or scenic overlooks. This is perfectly fine for capturing memories, but these are not always all that interesting beyond the sentiment and remembering the moment. One of the worst insults you can say to a photographer is “Oh, that is pretty. It…
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A Limit of One Cat Per Hand…
When Kate and I talked about cats, I always told her that she could only have one cat per hand because you can not pet more than two cats at once. If you have more than two cats, the cats will feel neglected. She would also be in danger of being a crazy cat lady.…
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Once in a Blue Supermoon
Comlara County Park, IL, August 2024 There were three days of blue supermoons in the middle of August 2024. Blue supermoons usually happen about once every ten years, but oddly, August 2023 had a blue supermoon too. A blue moon can be several things. A monthly blue moon is two full moons in a single…