FL Base Camp 2010

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Wildlife Photographers Base Camp is heading to FL 15-19 March, 2010. We’ll be based out of St Petersburg this year so we can access some cool opportunities such as the nesting Roseatte Spoonbills of Tampa Bay. That’s where this photo was taken along with some other of my all time favorites.

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We’ll actually be working a number of locales like Fort DeSoto and Pass-a-Grill and Venice Rookery and, well, you just have to join us to find out. We take some photos, we talk business, we have fun and eat pretty well. Jake Peterson will be with us as an instructor so that’s 6 students & 2 instructors for five full days.  Because of the extras, this Base Camp costs $2100 which covers instruction  and special event at Base Camp only. Bosque Base Camp is full and there is only 1 opening for our TX Base Camp. Hope to see YOU at Base Camp in 2010!

Photos captured by D3, 600VR on Lexar UDMA digital film

#1, image protection!

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When I’m on the road, making sure the images are protected and get home safe is top priority! That’s why I have relied on the Epson image safes since they first came out. Here you see Sharon with her Epson P5000 and I with the P7000 (Sharon has the hand me down) sitting by the fire in the lodge looking at our images we just copied from the evening shoot.As you can see, we found a bear or two to photograph our first night at the falls.

When on the road, I COPY my cards to the P7000 before I upload them to the notebook. I don’t edit the image in the P7000, rather it’s a safe that gets all of my images back to the office and it works like a charm, saving my butt twice in the past. With the amazing battery life of the P7000 (can upload 8-9 16GB cards on 1 battery), I can load and look at all my images on its large, gorgeous screen. I have 3 spare batteries which I know will take care of 10 days of shooting. My only question is, will the P7000’s harddrive hold all the image from the week from the D3x (yeah, you can view D3x raw files on the P7000). Time will tell.

Coolpix Chronicles – Glacier

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When I travel, I always have the Coolpix P6000 with me. It’s a great little camera that captures raw files in the format of NRW which you can process like any raw file in NX2.2. The P6000 serves as a quick grab camera, recording moments that are fun, whimsical and otherwise not worthy of a ton of time. It also permits me to experiment alot with light. It’s just simple photographic fun!

Well I’ve ben doing this for a while. While up in Glacier for our Base Camp, the thought came to be one breakfast what I was doing, I was creating Coolpix Chronicles. So I finally got a moment to take 95 images from that week captured by the P6000 and run them through Animoto to create what you see here. All these images are Jpegs created from processed NRW files. All images were taken with the Cooplix P6000 with the WA attached. Enjoy!

Nesting Bird Photo Contest winners!

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John Wall’s photos of nesting Bank Swallows is the winner of our first photo contest, Nesting Birds. John’s images were a stand out, we congratulate him on making some fine clicks of a very difficult subject. John is the winner of the Nikon bins, congrats! You can see all of John’s images as well as the four runner ups who when a $50 gift certificate from LensCoat right here. Thanks to Nikon and LensCoat for supporting wildlife photography!

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