Happy Sunday!

More eagle images today.  I still have not been all the way through the images from the Friday shoot.  I have only looked at about half of them and have deleted 97 of them.  That’s a pretty high keeper rate for me.  I’m showing you three flying eagle images today.  These are pretty much the way they came out of the camera with just a little “high pass” sharpening.  This can give you an idea of just how close the eagles were on Friday.  It was a lot of fun photographing them.

On a personal note a small feeling of triumph this morning.  My old Mac Book Pro (2011 version) stopped working.  This is the one that I made two trips to Davenport to get a new battery put in at a cost of $170.  It worked for a week and then I turned it on Thursday and got a “green apple” on the start-up screen and then just a blank white screen with no functionality.  I did a Google® search on the symptoms and all the articles I found pretty much spelled doom for the machine.  I tried some of the suggested remedies with no positive results.  Finally decided this weekend I would take the hard drive out of the machine and trash the computer.

This morning before doing that I decided to give it one more try.  This time I went to the Apple website and did some searching.  They recommended 7 steps getting progressively more intense to see if functionality could be restored.  Each step I took had negative results and I became more frustrated and reconciled that the laptop was toast.  I got to step 7 and the same result with one minor exception.  I saw a progress bar for a brief moment (I hadn’t seen that before) and then a blank screen again.  Frustrated I decided to go eat breakfast before disassembling the laptop.  Fortunately I left it turned on and when I came back from breakfast I had a log in screen.  It had booted into “safe mode”, which was the last step I tried and gave me some options for repairs.

The rest of the story is that now it is working like a new machine.  Whew!  I’m glad I didn’t start taking it apart.  🙂

I plan to get through the rest of the images today and cull it down but I don’t expect to have a lot of throw a ways.

That’s it for today.  Thanks for stopping by the blog.  Enjoy your day and be careful.