Birds in Flight at the Canadian Raptor Concervancy

“Birds in Flight” is a program at the Canadian Raptor Conservancy that offers photographers (& videographers) the opportunity to capture images of some fantastic birds outdoors and in flight.

I had a good day despite the cold and even got to stop for a Shrove Tuesday pancake supper on the way home.

There where lots of different birds and plenty of time and flights of the birds that flew & a few that where stationary. I ended up with so much footage it was hard to trim it down to 3 videos of reasonable length.the hard part was comparing 5 or 6 flights of the same bird trying to find the one to use, when really any of the 5 would work fine.

As usual I brought too much gear that never got used.  What I did use was a new set up with rails and matte box configured as a shoulder rig with a quick release plate on the bottom to easily switch from sticks to shoulder.  It worked pretty well. Maybe a bit bulky but, the weight & size did have the benefit that the tracking shots where smoother than I could have gotten without it. It's the 1st time I could go from shoulder to tripod easily & I really really liked it.

There's a bit of Slow motion but I could have easily put in a lot more. Every flight clip I slowed down looked so nice. I tried not to go overboard, just enough to catch the eye.

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PoTd - Leftovers

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Left over parts at a former boat storage & repair facility.
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PoTd - The Old Scow

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Pictures of "The Old Scow" taken at the event in 2018 Commemorating it's stranding above Niagara Falls & the unveiling of new plaques telling it's story. It's a great story and one of my favourite landmarks.

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It's Back ! I wish I could say "Back by popular demand", but it's back.  Mostly because I haven't been posting enough and PoTd is a little more stream lined than some other types of posts.

Starting with a photo & adding a description & maybe a bit of background is usually more straight forward than looking around the world and coming up with something to write about, then writing, then editing, & then making a photo or graphic to go with the writing.

That being said I do hope to do some posts that are more focused on the writing than the images . I might even get around to some posts About writing or at least what I'm writing.   I'm hoping to get back to work on a script I was working on as a writing exercise/practice. If that happens I also hope to put some progress updates and possibly samples here on the blog. 

A Shot of the Scow itself from the the 2018 event Commemorating the stranding of the Old Scow above Niagara Falls & unveiling of new plaques telling it's story.

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