I tend to spend time on one hobby at a time. I have two that I am passionate about, photography and music, but I’ve never been into both at the same point in time. There was a time when I was writing a lot of music but not taking too…

Many many years ago I started a YouTube channel. For years I didn’t really use it because I never figured out video. Being a talking head was not interesting. Videography required specialized equipment. Then came the R5 and that changed everything. I am still terrible at video but I know…

My niche so far has been short 30 second to 1 minute clips often of a single bird and slightly longer sequences from our wildlife trips. I have noticed the improvement in my shooting and editing. More recent clips are a lot easier for me to edit and make into…

A couple of years ago, I started getting interested in video. I’ve always been interested in cinematography and have always written “cinematic” music (One of my dreams remains to score a film). I started off by getting myself a cinema camera (A Blackmagic Pocket Cinema 4K), but despite my best…

It’s been quiet here. Life keeps chugging along and keeps me away from being a regular writer. So today, I wanted to talk about one of the best pieces of software I’ve used recently, Topaz Denoise. As a bird photographer in the Pacific Northwest, it’s not uncommon to take pictures…

Earlier today I tweeted I’ve long had a site on Flickr, but it hasn’t really seen much usage for a long long time. Yahoo acquired two of my favorite sites del.icio.us and Flickr, and essentially let them rot. In hindsight they could have done so much with Flickr. Over…

By any standards this was a weird year. For most people it was a year they’d rather forget and for good reasons. For us it has been a little different. Covid changed our weekend schedule. No more soccer or swim classes. No visits to the grocery store or Costco. But…

For the past decade plus I have rocked a Canon EOS 7D (Mark 1). At the time it was the best camera that I could find for what I wanted to do, mostly bird photography. I ended up buying it used along with a bunch of used Canon L glass…