Baby owls and their mom

Here are a few pics of a local great horned owl family. The color shift between the pics is probably due to the changing light, or me not paying attention in post. I was pretty tired when I processed these.





Mom keeps a watchful eye out.

Still no word from California Peggy?

Has anyone heard anything? I have her phone number but I don't want to disturb her with a call.

Still no word from Peggy?

The Blue Angels and Thunderbirds.

It always amazes me how the right wing thinks they're the only ones who are patriotic. On that note, please enjoy these photos of your Blue Angels and Thunderbirds. I shot these at the Naval Airfield near El Centro, California where the teams are preparing for this year's air shows.

The Queen Mary 2 leaving L.A. Harbor

Here is an interesting factoid. The QM2 was actually backing out of the harbor. There wasn't enough room in the channel for it to turn around. It did a 360 once it got into the outer harbor.

Bobcat!

Sorry I haven't posted in a while.

Here are some pics of a bobcat I encountered in Northern California. I have some nice landscapes and bird shots coming soon too.

Time for a new computer

My seven year old laptop just can't keep up with Photoshop or Premiere anymore. I'm looking to invest in a real graphics powerhouse PC. I'm even thinking of going back to using a desktop PC for future expandability, and because I enjoy tinkering with computers. No Macs, this is a PC household. LOL!

Does anyone have a computer they're really in love with these days? Right now I'm leaning towards a Dell or Alienware with a superstrong graphics card and an I7 CPU.

Thanks!

Grumpy

Please check out my photos of last week's Geminid Meteor Shower in the California Desert.

Here is a link to my post in the Photography forum.

https://democraticunderground.com/1036156900

The Geminid Meteor Shower

I drove two hundred miles and camped out all night in the Mojave Desert to capture these images of last week's Geminid Meteor Shower. The Geminids are known as one of the best celestial shows, and this one didn't disappoint. I had a difficult time deciding where to point my camera as the meteors were showing up all over the sky, about sixty per hour. My technique is to set my cameras to continually shoot images one after another, and then search them later to see what I captured. My exposure was :25 at F2.8, ISO 3200, 3200k color balance and a one second interval with ultrawide lenses. I had two full frame cameras going, a Canon 6dm2 and a Canon R5. Next year I plan to run a video camera as well. The location was the Alabama Hills in the Mojave Desert just below Mount Whitney and Lone Pine Peak.

Enjoy!

EllenG has passed away.

Ellen was a frequent contributor to the photography forum, often with photos of birds. I didn't see anything here so I am sharing a link from mnhtnbb in another forum. Another of her friends asked me to help let people know.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10182258736