Great Day!

Things well at the Florida Camera Council meeting.  Thanks so much for your prayers!  Both talks were well received and we had a lot of excited customers who wanted to talk about and ask questions about the D4 and D800. I met s lot of nice folks and got to visit with some great old friends.  Early this morning Wayne Bennett, Ken Blye, Robert Wicker, and I drive over to Marco Island before sunrise to photograph Burrowing Owls.  If you don’t know about these little fellows, they burrow into the ground to build a nest, thus their name, and they are really fun to watch.  They are very small a little bigger than soft drink can!  I’ve long insisted that the Nikon 70-300 AFS-VR f 4.5-5.6 zoom is a great lens, and again this morning it proved it’s value.  On my D7000 it is an equivilant 105-450 and was plenty long enough to shoot these little guys!

After morning address I headed for Lakeland and meeting up with the team for Sun n’ Fun!  I will post a lot of images this week from Sun n’ Fun.  On the drive up the road I saw and photographed some neat stuff, the largest strawberry man in America!, some killer color on an old building and cool fence that says “Keep Closed”.  I will work hard all week to bring you some more images.

This morning I shared images synchs set to music and one show I shared was the original “America From 500 Feet” show, it was a great reminder for me of just how much God has blessed my life, to get to do that project with Welsey and survive cancer to see all my kids grow up, and now give Sherelene and I,  6 grandchildren!

Be blessed,

the pilgrim

* Photo Notes:   Burrowing Owl – D7000 – 70-300 AFS-VR,   Mr. Strawberry, Colorful building, and Keep Closed Fence, all with the iPhone 4s, the two HDR with the App Simply HDR!

IMPORTANT NOTE:  I expect to get the D800 on Monday, I will wring it out this week and be posting and commenting all week!