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I can't imagine the courage the aircrews of WWII, stepping into the aircraft in preparation for a mission, knowing the odds of not coming home. And yet, they still did it. I've watched the footage of the ground crews counting the planes as they landed after a mission.

Surprising little factoid, hummingbirds can begin starving if deprived of food in as little as 3 - 5 hours and can die in as little as 12 hours without food. They go into torpor at night to conserve energy.

I agree with BF that the main problem is blown out highlights. I also looked at the beak of the bird and it doesn't look quite sharp either. It could be AF was locked on something else, or it could be motion blur. No EXIF data to look at and see what the shutter speed was. When shooting white...

I was expecting the ISO 8000 shots to be lacking detail after processing. I was rather surprised at how good they turned out. I see a lot of respected photographers shoot at surprisingly high ISOs when they have to, and still get good results. I know, it's a little off-putting when you bring a...

I would definitely look at something that has an arca swiss compatible plate. That is the standard that is by far the most commonly used, and mounting plates are available everywhere for very reasonable prices. Benro is another company that offers decent quality at a decent price in tripods. The...

Discovered this little guy in the back yard lurking on a mountain mint plant. It almost looks like pupils in the large central eye pair, but it's just the reflection of my flash diffuser and the lens in the middle mimicking a pupil.

I tried various ISOs in preparation for a talk on hummingbirds. I found that after running it through Topaz, or even using the denoise feature in Lightroom, an ISO 8,000 image was just fine. I even printed a 13x19 print to see if the detail would stand that kind of enlargement. It did. I posted...

It's tough to get them while they're "interacting". I have yet to get them in the same plane of focus. What shutter speed did you use for the "doubles"? I've been finding that I can get by with as little as 1/2000 th, if I have a series where some have the wings at the top or bottom of the...

I rarely shot with Tri-X. Plux-X was my go to, or Ilford HP4. I was not a fan of the grainy look that some photographers seemed to like at the time. Even when I was shooting with medium format, I generally preferred the slower films. Despite all the images I took with film, all the money I...

I shot a lot of T-Max after it came out. The only down side was I don't believe I could get it in 100' rolls. It's been a while ago, so maybe I had given up on bulk loading by then, but I don't remember rolling my own with T-Max. I shot a number of rolls with my dad's Rollie 3.5F after he...

With all the different menus and options on the new cameras, it's very easy to overlook a setting that can wreak havoc on your picture taking.

Venomous snakes, large predatory reptiles, and very annoying insects are just part of life here in this part of the country. Around 7,000 to 8,000 people are bitten by venomous snakes in the US each year. Of those, only about 5 - 10 die. Copperheads account for the most bites, but rattlesnakes...

I think that's called "aging".

My Z8 does my taxes for me. Between this year and next it should save me enough to pay for itself.

Does it have a diopter adjustment for the viewfinder?

I'm sure a lot of Z6iii users have been waiting for this. I know my Z8 didn't focus nearly as well on birds when I accidentally left it in animal detection mode.

Thanks, I tried several angles to get different backgrounds. This one had some blue sky showing through the leaves. This gave it some specular highlights that turned into bokeh balls. I may have tweaked it a little toward the blue in post. He flew off several times while I was shooting. I...

No the copperhead was not in my yard. I didn't smell cucumbers, although I do have a very poor sense of smell. The bug is an ambush bug. Here is a picture of two of them. The male is exhibiting protective behavior. I know, it looks like something else, but it isn't. Fortunately, they are quite...

After my distraction with hummingbirds, I'm back to the dragonflies today. Saw this guy on the end of a crepe myrtle tree branch in my front yard this afternoon, and grabbed the camera.