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2018 Festival of the Cranes
Nov. 19th, 2018 12:20 amIt's an annual event at the Bosque del Apache Wildlife Preserve, about 90 minutes south of Albuquerque, held the week before Thanksgiving. I went Thursday as my wife theoretically had jury duty Friday and I thought it might be less crowded than Saturday. It was, a bit. Chatted with the Panasonic Lumix guy and he took my picture with my ZS70 for publication: apparently the Japanese love seeing photos of people with cameras. Picked up a camera for a friend: she bought the same Lumix that I shoot, and by me picking it up she saved sales tax and shipping. And best of all: borrowed $13,000 worth of a Canon Eos R camera and 500mm prime lens!
Me, with said camera and lens on my Manfrotto tripod. My wife had just texted me and asked how it was going, I replied with this selfie. :-)
More pix under the cut, as usual clicken to embiggen.
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I'm hoping next year to maybe spend the night in Albuquerque so I have only a 90 minute drive instead of 2.5 hours from home, it'll depend on my job situation in the coming year. At the Canon booth last year they were giving away free baseball caps, as seen in the selfie. I wanted to get one for a friend who also shoots Canon, in fact I sold him my T2i which was a HUGE step up from what he was shooting. I didn't see any out and asked, they had them in the back. I just wanted one for him, turned out they had a different color this year and they were happy to give me two! So I have a yellow/butterscotish color cap that I can keep in my wife's car, and the greyish color for mine with one for Terry when I get back to Phoenix.
Next year I want to borrow a Canon 5D body: that puppy has 50 megapixel resolution! But I also want to get at least 3 hours with it if I can so I can explore more of its capabilities.
Me, with said camera and lens on my Manfrotto tripod. My wife had just texted me and asked how it was going, I replied with this selfie. :-)
More pix under the cut, as usual clicken to embiggen.
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I'm hoping next year to maybe spend the night in Albuquerque so I have only a 90 minute drive instead of 2.5 hours from home, it'll depend on my job situation in the coming year. At the Canon booth last year they were giving away free baseball caps, as seen in the selfie. I wanted to get one for a friend who also shoots Canon, in fact I sold him my T2i which was a HUGE step up from what he was shooting. I didn't see any out and asked, they had them in the back. I just wanted one for him, turned out they had a different color this year and they were happy to give me two! So I have a yellow/butterscotish color cap that I can keep in my wife's car, and the greyish color for mine with one for Terry when I get back to Phoenix.
Next year I want to borrow a Canon 5D body: that puppy has 50 megapixel resolution! But I also want to get at least 3 hours with it if I can so I can explore more of its capabilities.
