Moving

I am moving my blog over to my own self hosted account. I am moving to Wordpress. I like the themes and other features available there. It is a work in progress since I have just started the construction project.

I can be found at David Staggs Photo Blog

But I will still keep this site up for a while....

Here Doggie Look at the Birdie

Every day when I go to work on the access road to the parking lot where I park everyday these guys have been awful tempting to take a shot at. Today was the first real nice morning for a weekend to go take a shot at them and have the sun on the right side of where I needed it. Did not want to get too close since they are known carriers of some really bad things (think back to your history lessons of the Dark Ages). After sitting there with in the parking lot for a little to get them use to me sitting there and then I started shooting them. And they did not disappoint. Wish I could have spent more time with them, but I wanted to head to RMNP and go marmot hunting......

Well Changes Have Begun

Changes here have begun. The new memory cards are here and the now the Pocket Rocket is full of fuel and ready for some good shooting. The filters are here too and they are just itching to help bring to you some silky water from the snow melt here. Also a lighter, more versatile camera backpack that will let me take with me what I want and no more and also serve as a daypack for carrying goodies like snacks and lunch. So many straps and buckles and other places, it going to take a week just to finish exploring the new bag from Think Tank (it the the 360 Rotation backpack if you look at the site). Well, everyone have a good one and oh yea one more thing, I AM NOT ON CALL THIS WEEKEND...... YEA!!!!!!

Changes on the Way

Well to the folks down south that follow my blog, sorry no new updates in a while. Work has been very hectic and I am finding it very hard to find any free time to even go shoot. And when having time to shoot, I don't have the time to put them on the pc and go thru them. I have 2 full 4 GB cards just waiting to be loaded and gone thru. I guess it is a good thing also, since I am planning on ripping out my "old" 500 GB hard drives and install some "new" 1.5 TB drives in the computer and completely rebuild the OS so I better utilize my drives and the new space it will provide. I have also filled out my "pocket rocket" from Think Tank Photo with 4 more 4 GB CF cards. This will give me 40 GB of storage in the field. With that much storage available in the field, you can now see why I am going to 1.5 TB drives. Also coming are some new ND filter, replacing one that got scratched horribly last year shooting at Ouzel Falls. It has lived a good life, now time for it to retire.

So now it is time to go and grab sometime to eat for me and the truck and hopefully, I will not get paged trying to eat.

Here is a plug for one of the blogs and a worldwide event that is occuring on July 18, 2009. It is called Photo World Wide Walk. Here is the link for it:Photo World Wide Walk. It sponsored by the folks of NAPP (National Association of Photoshop Professionals). So check it out, time is running out and if you lead one and have a group, you and your group could win stuff if the photos win prizes if submitted.

Have a good one and remember this, a day shooting in the field is hell of lot better than being in the office.

Later......

Finally Got Me a Birdy

Going to work in the early morning up here and I have been noticing a Great Blue Heron flying in to the local park here in Fort Collins. I got to take off from work today and as I was driving out past the park today on the way to get my ears lowered a great deal. Low and behold, I looked over in the park and I found my friend the GBH strutting around near one of the ponds in the park. I worked with him for about a hour and managed to fill up my 4 GB CF card with images. This image is one of the last images before he flew off to another pond in the park and was no longer in the good light. I might try to go down early in the morning to see if he is back and if he there I am going to work him some more. Have to get there early before all the soccer kids and doggies and fishers get there and scare him off.

The Snow is Melting

Here is a touch of a stream in RMNP that is starting to experience spring melt. Did not feel like getting out to really work the area. maybe next week. It was just uck outside.

Look at the Birdy

We had a heavy visit today at the bird feeders. Jays, little birds, robins, and even those big bullies of the neighborhood, black birds. Shooting thru the living room windows. Did get a few better shoots this time around and it helped to clear all the junk off the window.

Yes Virginia, It is SUPPOSED TO BE SPRING

Yes, I know I am shouting in the title, but hey it is my blog. Taken yesterday up in RMNP and converted to B&W. It was cold and dreary and that was the mood I saw the picture in. Here it is April 12 and spring just cannot make it stick. One day it is nice and shirt sleeve weather and 5 minutes later, we are rushing for the parka's and gloves.

April Showers and May Flowers

To heck with the saying April showers bring May flowers, lets try April Snow brings May Flowers. Yes, it is April 4, 2009 and do not let that fool you. We have 6 inches of fresh heavy wet snow of the ground right now and I am loving it. Only loving it because it gives me something to shoot here in the neighborhood.

Now these two are just loving it also.

Nikon D2x 70-300mm VR, Ridata Pro 150X Card

Now I don't know about you, but these guys seems like they are having too much fun, including chasing my geese away that I was working .

Nikon D2x 70-300mm VR, Ridata Pro 150X Card

And this one of the two above is having just way too much fun. I wish I could have that much fun sometimes.

Nikon D2x 70-300mm VR, Ridata Pro 150X Card

Nothing to say here....

Nikon D2x 70-300mm VR, Ridata Pro 150X Card

They Are Coming Back

I was going through my pocket rocket (my compact flash card keeper) and found a card that I had not uploaded to my computer yet. These were outside the house I live at one morning after cominghome from working the mushroom shift and shot these thru a very lousy window to be shooting through. They were coming in for a drink and then they would fly off tothe feeder for a bite and then back for a drink and repeat. Had sveral type of birds come up. Now I am long from being a bird id expert. Hey if it has feathers two legs and flys a little or a lot, it must be a bird right. One ofthe hardest animals to me to photography, but I do hope to get better.