2025 Imaged BF Hammer style

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Started right away on New Years Day. Not greatness, but we can build to that as the year progresses.

It was very cloudy, the Wisconsin River is not frozen over, very few eagles about. What I captured was all happening pretty far away and I had to crop in a lot.

I believe these 2 eagles were courting.

With a lack of eagles, the cranes coming in for a formation landing was the next best show. I actually did not notice the eagle in the tree for the last photo until I reviewed at home.

Also I found out on the TV news that I was in the wrong city that day. There was a snowy owl posing for photographers in a town about 40 miles south of where I was.

 

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Lunch at Burlington, WI. Some suspicious-looking waterfowl out of their element.

Cheez-it guys, the fuzz is here!

Hey, I need help cutting-off my ankle monitor here! Guys!

 

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Catching up on stuff here. My Tensegrity Table from the January monthly assignment.

And for the Weekly Photo Challenge.

 

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Taken with my Lumix camera, these came out a lot less fuzzy through the windshield than my cellphone camera did. I was way too close to exit the car without scaring the birds away.

 

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My Tensegrity Table from the January monthly assignment. ...

I'd never heard of these, but after studying your photograph I had a pretty clear notion of what was going on there and did a little reading about them. Your Table looks great!

 

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I'm searching for circles for the weekly challenge today and instead find a fiberglass bird.

Infrared photos desaturated to B/W. My D600 is converted to 720nm IR.

 

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Catching up with 2 more weekly challenge photos.

 

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Kenosha, WI Light Station (Lake Michigan)

 

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One more from the March 31st set at Kenosha. Wanted to work on this one more carefully.

 

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From Horicon National Wildlife Refuge - Southern Unit. Photos I took to checkout a new 7Artisans lens.

 

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Working with the infrared D600 the past couple of days.

 

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I visited the middle of the North-West hemisphere this past Sunday. Latitude 45N x Longitude 90W.

 

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Also Sunday: visited the creatures of Jurustic Park.

 

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A few more from Jurustic Park

 

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During the month of July I have been trying to expose 2 rolls of 20-year-old B/W film I came to possess. Nearly done with that.

Today near end of work, I decided to find out if I am smarter than the boss' dog. He is afraid of my camera. Runs away to hide as soon as he sees it. Today I set a camera trap. Z5 connected to Snapbridge app on my phone. I placed the camera on the floor, propped up a bit on a doggy toy. I controlled it remotely and we lured Sebastian with a doggy treat. I caught him backing up when he heard a focus confirmation beep. The others were motion blurred.

It's a tie. I am no smarter than a dog.

 

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Finishing the work day late 85 miles from home. I did a bit of exploring for photos near Montfort, WI. There are wind turbines and solar farms in the hills here.

I wanted to add a bit of motion into the turbine blades, but I really needed ND filters to accomplish that better.

 

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This is along the Ice Age Trail on a segment near Cross Plains, WI. Shot some photos after lunch here on the way out to a job. Then on return later in the afternoon I stopped again to switch lenses and also use the later afternoon light.

 

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Some of my expired film photos I took from the last week of June into the 2nd week of August.

 

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The same harbor in Kenosha, WI as the other lighthouse I photographed. The "historic" lighthouse and lightkeeper's home now preserved as a museum.