Birds in Moab and Arches & Canyonlands National Parks
My partner Thu and I recently spent about a week in Moab, Utah and the national and state parks that surround it. This is a (probably incomplete) list of birds we identified during the trip.
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Photography
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Apr 2011 – Mar 2025
Apr 2011 – Mar 2025
Brief Review: Tamron 28-300mm F/3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD
It's terrible. Don't buy it.
Photographing an unusual aurora in southeastern Michigan
Last weekend, a strong geomagnetic storm resulted in an aurora being somewhat visible where I live in southeastern Michigan. This is unusual! I didn't have that much time to prepare for it, but I wanted to share my photos (the Flickr album is embedded above) and note what …
Some recent bird photos
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A complete table of Nikon 1 system battery compatibility
It took me a while to get this data together, so I thought it might be useful for other camera hoarders collectors:
Nikon 1 Camera Model
Battery Type
Compatible Charger
V1
EN-EL15
MH-25
J1
EN-EL20
MH-27
J2
EN-EL20
MH-27
S1
EN-EL20
MH-27
V2
EN-EL21
MH-28
J3
EN-EL20
MH-27
S2
EN-EL22 …
Photo sequence of Bald Eagles hunting, from Nov. 2022
In November of last year, I was lucky to observe a lot of bald eagle activity around a lake near my home. (In total I observed 5 eagles: 3 adults and 2 juveniles.)
Content warning: this post includes photos, from a distance, of a dead bird.
One Saturday morning, I …
Using Flickr Again
As I mentioned in my recent “Now” post, I was considering starting to use Flickr again, since I didn’t have anywhere public to share photos and screenshots. A day or two after that post, I decided to use Flickr, and I’ve started to post new stuff to my …
Shooting Theatre, Dance, and Music
Intro to photographing plays/musicals/dance/opera/concerts, with particular focus on plays, musicals, and dance. I gave this talk for the Michigan Daily's photostaff in 2012.
Alternative title: "Shooting Things That Move Fast in the Dark".
The slides, with speakers' notes, are available in …
Capturing Lightning
Building an analog circuit to trigger a DSLR camera when it detected lightning.
Shooting Concerts with Strobe Lights
Many concerts these days - mainly rock/pop shows - rely heavily on strobe lights as part of the experience. Photographing these shows is challenging, even though there's (at times) plenty of light.
I ran into this problem at an Ella Riot show at Ann Arbor's …