I’ve never gone shopping on Black Friday. You couldn’t pay me enough!
Lately I’ve been into making timelapse videos, so I took advantage of a break in the weather to head to Golden Gardens to see if I could get any interesting cloud action.
Happy Thanksgiving!
I hope everyone had a lovely day with friends or family and lots of turkey. I arrived in Mukilteo a bit early so was able to spend about 45 minutes at the park before joining extended family at Arnie’s restaurant for our annual no-dishes-to-wash feast.
The timing was perfect because it had rained earlier, and started to rain again while we were eating, but it was relatively pleasant at the beach when I was there. Some seals were frolicking close to shore as I was parking the car, but by the time I got my bag out and the long lens on the camera they’d disappeared. Bummer! I had to console myself with taking a few dozen pics of my favorite form of public transportation. CBWC.
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Cormorant Choking Down Lunch
The theme for CFFC this week is funny, and I happened to run into a funny situation with a cormorant yesterday.
You’ll have to excuse the terrible quality of the photos. It was harsh mid day light with the sun at a bad angle, and the birds were fishing a long way out from shore so I had to heavily crop.
I started shooting this cormorant after it had surfaced and swallowed half of its catch. Normally I see them come up with nothing, or a fish. This one had come up with some kind of big eel type thing (I’m not a marine biologist), and was having a difficult time choking the whole thing down.
Hold still, I’m trying to eat you!
Photography for Beginners Part 24: Buying a Camera – Sensor Sizes
Each post in this series builds on information discussed in previous posts. See the Photography for Beginners page on the menu for links to all the posts.
Part 23: Buying a Camera – Types of Cameras
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In the previous post we discussed that camera type and sensor size are interrelated, and that you need to decide what you want in both categories before you can move on to thinking about specific camera features.
In that post we covered the different types of cameras. In this post we cover sensor sizes.
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