1\/5000, f\/6.3, ISO 640, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM + EF 1.4 III Extender, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\nI always\u00a0process my images for the next day’s post the night before but when I got up this morning I had nothing prepared so I looked in my files from a year ago today (2\/23\/16) and found this singing Western Meadowlark taken on Antelope Island. I like the rabbitbrush perch, the droopy wing, the clean background and of course the singing pose.<\/p>\n
What a difference a year can make! This morning as I peered into the darkness\u00a0there was\u00a0about 3″ of fresh snow on the ground and reports indicate that much of Box Elder County (one of my favorite shooting areas) is underwater with flooded basements, ruined furnaces and an overflowing Bear River. Sandbagging operations are in progress but there’s already a lot of damage and the forecast is for continuing snow all day. The Bear River flows into the Great Salt Lake so all that water should help with the disappearing lake but many folks are paying a dear price for it.<\/p>\n
On an unrelated note the Canon Service Center has already sent me a bill for the repair of my 500 f\/4 lens and that encourages me because it seems to indicate that they actually found something wrong that\u00a0can be fixed. I don’t yet\u00a0know what it is but I’ll let you know when I find out.<\/p>\n
Ron<\/p>\n
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