My McCormick Place parking adventure took me 45 minutes. Big hassle. Next time, I’ll go there with a backup plan in case things are really crowded. Here’ some background.
I am delighted to be attending the 4G World conference at McCormick Place in Chicago. I have been to conferences here for years and I was in for a surprise this year. The new West building is completed and the conference was sharing space with the PACK EXPO. Continue reading
The trigger for me buying the Nikon 500mm f4 Lens started when I tried to take pictures of the beautiful birds in Florida. With my more normal 18-200mm f3.5-5.8 lens, the picture of the birds were ok, but I wanted better. For this posting, I wanted to share some of the photos from my new telephoto lens from our recent vacation in Captiva Island, Florida.
These pictures were all taken from the balcony of our condo over looking Redfish Pass. This small gap between the North most point of Captiva Island and North Captiva connects the Gulf of Mexico with the shallow Pine Island Sound. This stretch of water has lots of fish, and thus lots of big beautiful birds. Of course it helped alot that I took the pictures right after sunrise, with near perfect lighting!
A favorite activity for all visitors to Sanibel-Captiva is to visit the Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge. It’s a home for a wide range of Florida wildlife. A visitor drives slowly along Wildlife Drive and stops to look at the wide variety of birds. For this trip we saw: Great Blue Heron, Great Egret, Snowy Egret, Iris, Black Crowned Night Heron, Roseate Spoonbills, Hawks, Osprey, etc.
This entry of the Purdue Bell Tower was made from the “share” button inside of flickr. I will probably delete this post.
