Mike's Photographs : January 2016

Sunday, January 24, 2016

Yay!

The Snowblower was fine and it was sunny.

The first trench was hardest

Nice drifts

Chest high drift

Let the digging out commence

Just hope the snowblower fires up OK or it's hitch up the Sled Cat Team.

30 inch on the deck.

No idea how deep the drifts are until I get out there.

Saturday, January 9, 2016

I deleted the last entry because of spamming from some Indian asshole selling shit of some sort. I can't figure out how to delete Google+ comments.

Anyway as I was saying, Nikon have announced a long awaited replacement for the D300 which was superb wildlife camera when it came out in 2007. The D500 will be released in March apparently, what happened to the D400 you might ask. Well I think the answer is that the Nikon factory in Thailand got totally wiped out in the flooding a few years ago. Even though I'm using the Sony A7r mostly and neglecting the D810 I'm sorely tempted by the D500. Heres a D300 shot of an Indigo Bunting from the backyard taken in May 2008.

Indigo Bunting

Sunday, January 3, 2016

New Christmas Present

I'm using a Sony A7r more and more these days as it's so small and light. I can use all my Nikon lenses using an adapter. The ones I use most are all manual focus anyway so thats not an issue. The Sony is great for manual focusing as it doesn't have an optical viewfinder. It's a little LCD display that shows you what the camera sensor is going to register. As it's so small it doesn't have a built in flash so thats what I wanted Santa to bring me for Christmas. He got my letter and under the Christmas tree I found a Nissin i40S which is a great little flash thats perfectly integrated with the Sony. The cats are perfect test subjects and models for my new toy. They are walking around bumping into things after being subjected to the flash but it wears off after a while. No kitties were harmed in the making of these photographs. Well not permanently anyway.