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The Great Horned Owlet last week. It has since lost all of its white downy feathers and may have fledged. We have not seen it around for a couple of days F-5, 600mm f/4 ED IF AIS and Fujicolor 400 Superia film

I hesitated for a long time about getting an F3 but when this one came along in absolute mint condition (not a mark on it) I could no longer resist. There is not a mark on it or the MD4 and it works flawlessly. It is already loaded with Portra 160 and ready to go for this afternoon!

The little spheres of glass can make for some interesting photos!

Adorable little rodent, isn't he?

I am one of those photographers who has never stopped shooting film and still enjoy shooting it today, though right now I do not have the space to set my darkroom back up and have to resort to scanning the negatives. But that will be changing soon. The analog revival: Why photographers are...

The Great Horned Owl chick at Brookgreen was pretty active today. It is really starting to lose its downy feathers now. I am not sure when it was born but owlets usually stay in the nest for about 6 weeks ± before taking off on their own. D500, 600mm ED IF AIS Nikkor and TC-300 2x

Fanning for the Ladies........ Brookgreen Gardens in Murrells Inlet, SC. There is a substantial population of wild turkeys there. D850, 400mm f/2.8 ED IF AIS Nikkor

I was out shooting some wading birds yesterday with just the F4E and F5 and some Fuji 400. It is already getting pretty hot here in SC (84º and humid here today) so my hands were a little sweaty. One thing I have never liked about the F4 is that the leather, though very attractive, is slick as...

The clouds finally cleared for long enough to get a shot of the moon through my telescope. My Celestron Nexstar 8SE is a 2032mm f/10 catadioptric telescope. The moon pretty much filled the entire frame vertically with the D850 mounted, I added some additional black background in the image in...

The only one in the nest, this was taken at Brookgreen Gardens in Murrels Inlet SC. I understand that the other chick fell out of the nest but was rescued by BG staff. Mom was nowhere to be found, we searched high and low for her, but I am sure she was not far away from junior! The chick appears...

A virtually NIB condition F5! Not a mark on it, it is absolutely spotless inside and out. I have some Tri-X already loaded, going out tomorrow and have some fun! The F5 is truly the "Granddaddy" of the modern day DSLR. All of it's novel features it has; command wheels instead of knobs, an...

I actually reworked it because I wanted to bring out more details in the foreground. The exposure difference between the Milky Way and the beach with the house in it was about 5 EV. The exposure for the Milky Way was 30 sec @ f/4.5 at ISO 3200. The exposure for the house was 8 sec @ f/4.5 at...

This image is actually a composite of two images, both taken from the same vantage point with the 8-15mm f/3.5-4.5 Fisheye Nikkor @ 15mm. The Milky Way was 30 sec @ f/4 @ ISO 4000, the house 6 sec @ f/4 @ ISO 1250

You will be very happy with it. Get a battery grip and it will feel even better in your hands. The D850 does noticeably better than the D500 at ISO's above 2400 but it is still ok with the D500. My D500 gets almost as much use as the D850 for wildlife photography because of the crop factor...

A 2032mm f/10 (8") catadioptric telescope. As you see it right there, it is about 75 pounds total, including the D850 and battery grip. I also have 6 different strength eyepieces and a 2x Barlow lens (essentially a 2x TC). It is all hooked up and ready to rock and roll. I am still waiting on a...

Milky Way Galaxy. Unfortunately this is still too early in the year to really capture the "core" but it is better than nothing. Most of the EXIF data is lost when you stack images in Deep Sky Stacker. All you get is what is generated by PhotoShop when you post process it. Nikon D850, 15mm...

This was my first shoot for the weekly challenge "yellow" but I decided it against it for the lemonade one. I was just not particularly pleased with this one.

I got an email that today that my 8" (diameter, 2032mm focal length) Celestron Nexstar 8SE telescope should be here tomorrow. I ordered it last mid December but it has been backordered since before that due to all of this Covidiocy silliness. I already have a wedge (which makes the mount a true...

Re: Moon HDR "Snow" Moon tonight. D850, 600mm f/4 ED IF AIS Nikkor w/ TC-300 2x

Yours It was fun during the day but at night and in bad weather your sphincter was puckered up tight enough to cut washers off of it! :nightmare::nightmare: Yours truly coming aboard USS Enterprise summer 1986 on a beautiful Case I day...........