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Puffins: Comedians of the Sky

Submitted by David Cardinal on Fri, 07/23/2010 - 12:18

I’m sure Puffins don’t think of themselves as funny, but it is difficult to watch them when in breeding plumage and not imagine that they are wearing a clown suit and make up. …

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Help with macro lens explaination

Submitted by omegabawlz on Sat, 07/17/2010 - 22:31

Hey everyone, i'm an amature photographer, actually got my D90 a little under a month ago, first DSLR and im still learning. Im picking up pretty quickly on all the different kinds of basic and prime lenses, and fisheyes, but i just cant figure out macro. I mean, there are 60mm prime macros and then huge zoom macros and i just dont know, first the difference besides zoom, whether they are 1:1 and what that ratio really means, and any recomendations on a good solid amature macro lens? Thanks

Creating A New Look For Old Bears

Submitted by David Cardinal on Wed, 07/14/2010 - 18:49

After eleven summers photographing Alaskan Coastal Brown Bears (also known as “Grizzly Bears”) I’ve come up with quite a few nice shots and tried a lot of different ideas for creating compelling portraits of them. So this year I decided to try something new to give some of my favorite mammals a new look…

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Alaskan Brown Bear, Nikon D70 Lifepixel Infrared
Nikon 200-400mm f/4 lens.

Breakthrough Teleconverter for Consumer Lenses: Kenko Teleplus Pro 300 DGX 1.4x

Submitted by David Cardinal on Thu, 07/08/2010 - 16:02

Few questions from safari participants make me cringe as much as the one about using a Teleconverter with their consumer or prosumer lenses. Both Nikon and Canon have worked hard on excellent Teleconverters for their high-end pro Telephoto lenses, but for some good reasons have orphaned their other lenses in that regard. Solutions were all ugly, involving a loss of Auto-Focus and often physical modifications to lenses. But now all that has changed with the introduction of the …

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Turning a Mountain Inside-Out One Scoop At A Time

Submitted by David Cardinal on Mon, 06/28/2010 - 22:33

Whatever you think of open-pit mining the sheer scale of turning a mountain into the world’s largest hole to provide millions of miles of telephone wire, countless feet of trendy house siding, and billions of feet of plumbing pipe is breathtaking. If it was a stadium Kennecott Copper’s (now RIo TInto’s) Bingham Canyon Mine could seat over 9 million people…

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