After missing most of the best part of the birding season, I’m racing to catch up. Mid-day isn’t exactly the best time for photography, but sometimes the conditions cooperate and you can make some decent images. In this case, it was a Purple Gallinule foraging in Spatterdock.

Last October Adobe released the first public beta of Photoshop Lightroom 3. At that time the beta was very rough around the edges, rough enough that I wouldn’t even use it. Adobe has since released a new beta, find out what’s changed and more inside.

Christmas saw the acquisition of a Canon TC-80N3 timer remote, it’s capable of being programmed to produce long exposure and time lapse captures with intervals as short as 1 second. This was my first time running a time lapse and I think I learned a few things from it, but I’ll save that story for [...]

A look at the compact, lightweight, security minded Flipside 200 backpack from Lowepro.

Canon’s 100-400 maybe isn’t the best-built lens, the push pull design makes the bearings and zoom lock prone to picking up sand or dust from the lens’s body. However, it is one of my favorites. I actually like the push pull zoom for a lens of the range, and my copy is very sharp. However, [...]