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South Texas Bird Safari Trip Report & 2010 Announcement
Every bird photographer knows how difficult it is to photograph woodland birds--especially the colorful ones like warblers and buntings. And for those with either too little mobility or too much sense...
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Texas Hill Country Bird Photo Safari & Workshop, May, 2015
Dates: 2015-05-12 17:00 - 2015-05-17 09:00 Maximum 6 photographers, Features 4 full days of shooting on historic private ranches [3 Openings]When most people think of Texas they don't think of hills....
View ArticleDPS 7--05: Texas Trip Report & New Trip Announcements, Lensbaby Composer,...
Welcome to DPS 7-05. We recently returned from our 4th spring visit to South Texas after a great safari week with some very happy participants who got the bird photo opportunities they were hoping for...
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Shooting Face to Face the Easy Way
It's not only mammals and birds which benefit from eye level photography. Some of our smaller friends like this threatened Texas Desert Tortoise also look more interesting and compelling when...
View ArticleShowing off the Old West in Texas—One Antique at a Time
Regular readers know that I enjoy both HDR and black and white photography. So when our hosts at our recent Hill Country Photo Safari, Sharron and Larry Jay of BCNA, rolled out their fully restored...
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Giving Raptors a Future – Photography with Last Chance Forever
In addition to all the great songbird photography we had during our Texas Hill Country photo safari we had a special treat when John Karger of Last Chance Forever, a raptor rehabilitation foundation,...
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Move Over Picasso: One-Shot HDR is Here
Many of us who have wound up in photography wish we could be artists. And while automated computer tools will hopefully never be a substitute for human talent each year there are some new, cool...
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A Gray Owl for A Gray Morning
We had some early clouds on our South Texas Photo Safari this morning so I decided to take advantage of the very even light to see if I could get some good shots of an Eastern Screech Owl that nests...
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Sweat The Details in Your Photos: What a Difference A Shadow Can Make
There is a lot to keep in mind when you are photographing any moving subject, especially wildlife. Your choice of subject, background, composition and most importantly the light. And then there is the...
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South Texas Bird Photo Safari Trip Report & Images
Thanks to some great hosts, enthusiastic participants and mostly cooperative weather we had another great visit & photo safari in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. To coincide with NANPA’s...
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Wind? Don’t Let It Spoil Your Macro Fun!
All macro photographers know wind as their number one enemy. While poor light can be coddled and shaped with flash and reflectors wind is more recalcitrant. Sure you can freeze a stem or two with a...
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From birds to blooms in the Texas Hill Country
Our Texas Hill Country photo workshop drew to a close today with a full day of photography. We started this morning in the excellent blinds at BCNA, with our co-hosts Larry and Sharron Jay making sure...
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Using Iris Blur in Photoshop CS6 to direct attention
One of the niftiest new filters in Photoshop’s bag of tricks is the Iris Blur filter. It mimics the behavior of limited depth of field by blurring the image outside a customizable “iris” shape. As...
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Bird photo blinds: Studios or Habitats?
Having just returned from two weeks of really fun and very productive photography on some of the best private ranches in south Texas, I’ve had a lot of time to think and rethink about the design of the...
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South Texas Birds--Rio Grande Valley Private Ranches May, 2015
Dates: 2015-05-05 16:00 - 2015-05-11 09:00 Maximum 8 photographers (usually sells out) [After a very successful 2014 event, we're looking forward to 2015]Based on the continued success of the Lens and...
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Harris Hawk image from our Rio Grande Valley Texas Photo Safari announced as...
We’re pleased to learn that our image of two Harris Hawks fighting has been awarded the Grand Prize in the 2012 National Wildlife Federation photo contest – winning against over 28,000 other images. I...
View ArticleHillingdon Ranch: David Langford chronicles the heart of the Texas Hill Country
Congratulations to our good friend David Langford on his beautiful new book, Hillingdon Ranch: Four Seasons, Six Generations, published by Texas A&M as an example of successful, multi-generational...
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