Ah…. Spring is in the air. Single men are polishing their sports cars, buying new tires for their “I got one too” BMW 3 series, and laying down some cash for a few new spring shirts, all in the hope of attracting a nice girl. Yeah, right… wrong bait for that. Want a sure fire way of snagging a mate? Try a plump fish.
That is how a romantically inspired Forster’s Tern will tell a hot, curvy female tern that he is worthy of her attention. He entices here with a nice, plump, slimy, fish.
Click here to see how a suave Tern bribes one babe of a bird.
You do need Megapixels: Some bloggers will say more megapixels don’t matter and are more about marketing and sales gimmicks; for the most part, they are absolutely correct. If you are shooting JPGs and not doing much tweaking, you are wasting your money thinking you need a new camera with more megapixels. However, if you are shooting birds like I do, then you will be doing a ton of cropping to turn a smudge in a frame into a picture of a bird.
Wanna make art?
These guys are the big attraction every winter at the Barnegat Light NJ, jetty. These daredevils bob up and down in the crashing water along the jetty. Why they are not pressed duck on the rocks from the angry surf is beyond me. I guess Darwin was on to something here.
My intent here is not to provide a detailed lens review, there are plenty of good ones out there, but describe what it meant to me, an amateur, how I purchased this used, and provide you with some real life information. Not all was smooth buying this lens used.
This is it. The Rosetta Stone. These are the instructions to get yourself off of 
Here is collection of stupid bugs. I shot them with a variety of lenses and settings, but here are a few tips for getting good shots of buggage.
Can you believe this?! I came across this Barred Owl tearing into a vole!!! Whoa! Maximum cool.
So there I am, sitting on an embankment along a New Jersey salt marsh, watching a group of Forster’s Terns diving non-stop for worms. So what’s wrong with my equipment? 
Every day, I get asked, “How do you do it? How do you get such inspirational results with just that blunt instrument called a camera?” Well!!!! Ahemm…First I… Then I… well awright……., nobody ever asked me that. But if they did, I would tell them……. it’s all in the beer!!!
Boy, I spent all this money on equipment, risked life and limb out on the Jetty at Barnegat Light New Jersey, and the Loons showed up looking pretty ratty. These Loons looked simply like hell. Kinda like they broke into my beer fridge the night before and partied like there was no tomorrow.
Well for a screaming amateur like me, talking about art is a bit of a stretch. Heck talking about photography is a stretch for me too but after a few beers, I’ll talk about anything. Ok, now that I have a few Pilsner Urquells in me, let’s talk about taking pictures and making art. The secrets of Depth of Field.
Now this was just stupid. I risked over 6 grand in equipment to take a dopey macro picture of a moth.
I braved poopy rocks, salt spray on my mega-buck equipment, and the possibility of a broken leg to get these snaps of a buncha dumb birds. Actually they were kinda cute and just maybe a little dumb.
OK, sunsets. Big deal. We all take them; your mother loves them; so I put a few up here. But using “The Rule of Thirds”, you can really make them better.
