Starlin Castro of the Chicago Cubs

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The Cubs’ best player over the past 5 seasons turns 25 today.

Posted on March 24th, 2015 under Other. Tags: baseball, Nikon 300mm f/4 VR ED-IF AF-S Nikkor Lens, Nikon D600, Nikon TC-17E II 1.7x Teleconverter. Comments Off on Happy Birthday Starlin Castro

Justin Morneau of the Colorado Rockies high fives Carlos Gonzalez after scoring on 8/6/14

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My random, desktop image of the day reminded me that today is the day MLB pitchers and catchers reported to spring training. My favorite time of the year begins now.

Posted on February 19th, 2015 under Other. Tags: baseball, Coors Field, Denver, Nikon 300mm f/4 VR ED-IF AF-S Nikkor Lens, Nikon D600, sports photography. Comments Off on Pitchers and catchers report

Anthony Rizzo of the Chicago Cubs @ Coors Field in 2014

… can they?

“We’re going to play and we’re going to win the NL Central, you can quote me on that… [winning the World Series] will be fun. Once we do, we’re going to figure out how we’re going to do it again. That’s a long ways away. That’s nine or 10 months away… I know in ‘Back to the Future’ we win it in 2015, which is kind of crazy, to say the least. We’ll do our best to make sure that happens.” — Anthony Rizzo

Posted on January 16th, 2015 under Other. Tags: Anthony Rizzo, baseball, Coors Field, Denver, Nikon 300mm f/4 VR ED-IF AF-S Nikkor Lens, Nikon D600, sports photography. Comments Off on Anthony Rizzo and “Back to the Future” can’t both be wrong …

Red-tailed hawk in Southern Oregon (2014)

I captured this image last weekend in Beatty, Oregon.

Posted on August 27th, 2014 under Oregon. Tags: beatty, Nikon 300mm f/4 VR ED-IF AF-S Nikkor Lens, Nikon D600, Nikon TC-17E II 1.7x Teleconverter. Comments Off on Red-Tailed Hawk

Bald eagle in flight

Last year a friend tipped me off to a bald eagle nest on their property an hour east of Klamath Falls, Oregon. Unfortunately, I didn’t have a long lens with me to shoot it properly. So when we went for a visit this past weekend I brought my 300mm lens and a 1.7X teleconverter to extend my reach to about 500mm.

When we arrived at the nest the eagle was sitting in the tree. However, by the time I got my equipment together the eagle was in flight and heading quickly away from me. I revisited the nest a couple more times on the trip and the results were similar on each visit. This eagle wanted nothing to do with me. I saw it on each occasion, but it split when it saw me coming and didn’t return while I waited.

Today’s photo is the best I could do, and this is a 100% crop. The eagle was really nowhere near me when I took this. Maybe next time he’ll have offspring in the nest and be more willing to stick around.

Posted on August 25th, 2014 under Oregon. Tags: Nikon 300mm f/4 VR ED-IF AF-S Nikkor Lens, Nikon D600, Nikon TC-17E II 1.7x Teleconverter. Comments Off on Camera shy bald eagle