960 photos. That’s the count of .NEF files that I had transferred over to the laptop by the end of today. It is indeed beneficial having the laptop going in the car on a shoot like this! I only have one 1GB compact flash card. Yeah, I have now learned that bird photography requires lots of memory, for lots of shots will be taken. A large percentage of this 960 are actually unusable shots, mainly due to being out of focus or motion blur…the low light photos zoom photos and/or flight action. Many of the 960 are keepers, including some fantastic flight shots. Among the wildlife photographed today included great blue heron, bald eagle, american kestral, red-tailed hawk, western meadowlard, road-runner, a turtle, assortment of waterfowl including snow geese. The sunset tonight was also spectacular with high cirrus providing brilliant colors. Tomorrow morning will be the last shoot before heading up to Santa Fe for part 3 of this vacation.
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Very nice pics Mike, I feel like I am following a National Geographic Photographer out on his first photo shoot. Keep em coming!
An interesting shot would be the moon over the White Sands horizon looking through some tree branches, but now the moon will be a sliver tonight. New Moon was on the 29th.
Comment by Fritz — January 30, 2006 @ 1:59 pm