When you first posted here, I found your images disturbing/hard to look at. To my unprofessional eyes, the images you are now posting are much improved from those you started with.
In the time between your first post and today, I haven't replaced my computer, I haven't replaced my monitor, and I haven't replaced my glasses. That means the improvement I am seeing is either in your skills behind the camera, or in your Post-production skills.
If FM had a "two thumbs up" emoticon, I'd put it here.
Thanks for the kind words, I really appreciate it.
Hopefully, both my photography skills and my post production skills have gotten better over the years.
A friend of mine came up from Austin to spot at DFW on Monday afternoon. LOTS of American Airlines birds, obviously, but I didn't notice this B-737 was different than so many of the other B-737's with American. This one has the AA Eagle logo on the winglets, too. I kinda like it, myself.
You can certainly tell the late afternoon sun setting, with the huge wing shadow on the fuselage.
Joe is keeping the Husky in my hangar until he gets his barn/home renovated on his new property in the Tetons, then the Husky will go to live in the mountains.
Speaking of hangars at McKinney, all four of ours are filled and I have a quickly growing waitlist of six. There are two hangars for sale right now but the values have risen so rapidly that there is really no way to make the numbers work anymore. That's good, and bad.
I've never really been a fan of the A-340, to me, one of the most under-powered commercial aircraft ever built. You should see them "try" to get airborne at DFW Airport in the summer! Takes them about six miles to get off the runway.
This one has the new Lufthansa logo, so I decided to go ahead and capture it, as they are going to start flying the A-330 into DFW very soon.
Nice one, Jim! The gentleman standing next to me yesterday at Cononwingo Dam shooting bald eagles had a new R3 with the 600mm F4 L II on. In one eagle fishing dive he said the buffer started to slow down after 160 shots, he was trying the 30 FPS mode, so that was just 5 seconds of shooting. He is a very experienced birder and well known in the local birding community.
Here are some of the shots of the three fishing episodes I was able to photograph yesterday, not the best angle from where I stood when they grabbed the fish.
He spoke very highly of it but he said it may take him a while to learn how to focus with his eyes for birds. It's a very comfortable body to hold. He also has the R5 and the Sony A9, he is not too crazy for the small buttons on these small cameras. But for what he shoots mostly, which are birds, often far away, 24MP maybe the only drawback. My 1.4 TC is pretty much glued to the 600mm lens, and sometimes I still have to crop away up to 80% or 90% of the frame. This final JPEG file of this cormorant swallowing the fish is only 1.2 MP from the 50 MP sensor.
Great images Douglas! I do love the camera, but the 24mp thingy pops into my mind every once in a while. Canon better hurry up before I cool off on the R3. Truthfully, it’s a want more than a need, the R5 is a great camera that would easily carry me through to the R1.
They normally make sure that I get stuff early, but I haven’t pushed this one and with things the way they are it seems pretty hit and miss.
Last football game of the season for me. Local teams lost in the third round and University of Mary Hardin Baylor will play the semi-finals away from home.
I really like this perspective with the Field Judge (ref) in the frame, plus it captured the team logo on the football (CRU). Remember the Nike logo on Tiger Woods golf ball at the 16th hole at the Masters? Yes, he caught the ball and ran it in for a touchdown.
This was my first game to capture two (2) one hand catches for touchdowns. These athletes are amazing, and they are in Division III; I can only imagine the Division I guys (and I love my University of Houston Cougars!).
JayDavis wrote:
While I was waiting for the fog to clear at the Burbank Airport so I could photograph the exterior of the G-550 that I was hired to shoot, this B-737 from Alaska Airlines with Russell Wilson from the Seattle Seahawks was departing. Yes, it's a little backlit, but I still like it.
Hope everyone is having a great week!
Back lit or not, Jay, serendipitous shots are as here in really GOOD.
