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Queen of all the islands
I took a DJI Mini Pro 3 up to my favorite island in the world in Georgian Bay, Ontario. I’m not completely thrilled with the DJI Mini Pro 3 image quality - it’s perhaps not being comfortable on how focus was perfectly working, but the stacking/HDR is losing some significant sharpness. I’ll have to read more about it before my next use or consider an upgrade. Anyway - some members of the club wanted copies of images. Here are my favorites along with links for full resolution. I wouldn’t print these very large.
Of Yellowstone and Appendices
Sometimes trips don’t go as planned - for the better or worse! Unfortunately my latest trip to Yellowstone this week went the way of the latter. I am making this post from a hotel bed in Bozeman, Montana after an appendectomy late Monday night. A huge shoutout to the great staff at Bozeman Health Deaconess Hospital who were amazing in their care and service and were quick to ask what type of photography I was doing after seeing my Lowepro bag half opened next to the hospital bed. One of my last memories before the anesthesia kicked in was the surgeon asking “Nikon or Canon?” and his nod of approval after I muttered “Sony” and made a joke about the great light in the OR.
Benjamin Olson and I got out to Yellowstone on Saturday sunset and had a good day of shooting buffalo and elk on Sunday. On Monday I woke up with what I thought was congestion in my middle abdomen but figured a coffee and a pit stop at a park latrine would clear things up. Unfortunately by noon I was doubled over and could barely get out of the car. Ben was an awesome friend and convinced me it was necessary to get to a hospital soon and drove me up to Bozeman immediately.
I’m on the mend and will be perfectly fine, but more-so bummed about spending my time in Montana in a bed. I think I got a few good shots that I”ll share below. I have swapped my lens from the 100-400 to the 200-600!
Left Coast Life
With my car still sporting DC license plates and continually calling the city north of me “San Fran”, it seems to be easy for others to tell I’m new to the area. A new job brought me to a place I never thought I’d want to live, but I made the cross country journey out to the Bay Area and found a beautiful surfer town called Pacifica to set up shop. It’s the first time I’ve lived in an area where it’s best to keep my camera on my coffee table ready and charged in order to respond to the likes of a message from a college friend saying “yo dude - I’m above your house, come outside”. If the floating effortlessly in rising winds is not already impressive enough, his ability to pull out his phone and text me while doing so drove home the fact my daily multitasking of sitting in a zoom meeting while looking at internet memes at the same time is not as remarkable as I thought.
For now I’m fortunate enough to call Pacifica home and will continue to bombard my family on Snapchat and followers on Instagram the same sunset perspective every night while eagerly awaiting the gray whale migration to pass thru!
