Today is my Friday.   I’m taking a day off tomorrow for some personal business and that will also give me a 4 day weekend!!  Monday of course is Presidents’ Day and the Federal Reserve is closed.  When they are closed, most banks are closed.  🙂

Anyway I digress.  Well actually I guess I haven’t even started.  On my birthday I spent a good part of the day shooting images.  I drove a lot of miles and looked at a lot of things but my main focus was capturing images of eagles.  I didn’t have much luck with that so here are some of the other images from that day.

The image above was taken on the Wisconsin side of the river over by the fishing barge near the lock and dam number 11.  This vantage point allows the opportunity to get close to the water if eagles happen to be fishing (which they were not on this day.)

This was also the first time I had taken the new Sigma 50 -500 mm lens out for shooting.  Up to this point it had preformed well.  Although the first image in this post was taken with the 28 – 300 mm lens the one above is with the Sigma.

It was later in the day when I noticed the first glitch with the auto focus of the lens.  But for the first couple of hours it did a good job.

I tried the above image in color and it looked okay but it just kept saying to me that it needed to be in black and white.    The area where these images were made is a little difficult to get to in a car.  Especially when the ground is a little soft like it was on this day.   The two times I’ve been over there I’ve only seen 4 wheel drive vehicles.

Well, that’s it for today.  After I finish my appointments tomorrow morning I have 3.5 days to shoot images.  Hope the weather cooperates.  I might have to run down to LD #14 sometime over the next 4 days if the eagles are still there to test out the replacement lens.

Thanks for stopping by.  Enjoy your Friday  um I mean Thursday.  🙂  Be careful.