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The Traveler visits Disneyland

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I made a somewhat spontaneous trip to Southern CA with my daughter, and #1 Grandson to visit my son, and Disneyland. It had been nearly 10 yrs since my last visit to Disneyland.

We were there over the week-end so it was crazy crowded. The lines and wait times were long so we didn’t get in as many rides as we would have liked, but we rode our favorites, and we all loved seeing #1 Grandson’s reaction to seeing Mickey Mouse live and in person. He loves Mickey Mouse and was so excited. He smiled ear to ear and started to dance. We knew he must have had the Hot Dog Dance playing in his head. It made the trip. I’m looking forward to taking him again, and again, and again.

Nikon D700| Nikkor 35mm @f/10| 1/160s | ISO 320| Manual Priority| Matrix Metering| Hand-held

Grass Backlit Macro 1/52

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For the first time I’m going to try to complete a Project 52 this year. Right now I’m leaning toward making my P52 a Themed project focusing on light/lighting using both natural light, and light modifiers but, we’ll see how that goes. It could end up being a little of everything.

Nikon D700| Nikkor AF-D 105mm @f/16| 1/125s| ISO400|Aperture Priority| Matrix Metering| Hand-held

Wrentit

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Wrentit, originally uploaded by CircadianReflections Photography.

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The light on this Wrentit’s head was perfect at this moment. It flew up here so fast and stayed only a minute before flying off again. It didn’t return in the time I remained there. I feel so lucky to have captured this with the light on its face and eye like this.

Nikon D300s| Nikkor 300mm + Nikkor 14EII TC=630mm| f8| 1/640s| IS0 640| Manual Priority| Center Weight Metering| Tripod

San Francisco Blues

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After birding in the morning and afternoon my friend Dali and I headed to the city to photograph the skyline at Twilight. I have shot from this location before, but I wanted to make an image in the Blue Period from here. I didn’t find the trail down to the beach, but I’ll go earlier next time and find it.
There were 6 other people there besides Dali and I. Word is getting out about this location.

Nikon D700| Nikkor 18mm @f11| 3 seconds| ISO 320| Manual Priority| Matrix Metering| Tripod

Spotted Towhee

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I had some free time today so I met up with my friend Dali and we went birding. It was a great morning for birding. We saw this Spotted Towhee, Nuttal Woodpecker, Sparrows, Chickadee, Blue Jay, a Wrentit, and a couple of photographers who were there before us said we missed a California Thrasher by seconds. The Red Bellied Sapsucker that has been visiting this Persimmon tree didn’t show up in the 2 hours we were there unfortunately.

Nikon D300s| Nikkor 300mm @ f8 + Nikon 14EII TC=630mm| 1/400s| ISO640| Manual Priority| Center Weight Metering| Tripod| Cupertino, CA