Lock and Dam # 10

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Monday ~ February 16, 2015

Posted by Dave Updegraff on February 16, 2015
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February-15-2015

Happy Monday!

Jeanne and I went for a photo run yesterday afternoon, even though the sky was gray and it was only 8 degrees above zero with a wind chill of -6.  We went to our normal places and then to some places we have never been.  The pickings were pretty slim.

I told Jeanne I wasn’t going to come home with an empty card like I did a couple of weeks ago, so I captured this image of the people on the ice fishing below the Lock and Dam.

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Talk about your dedicated biker.  I had to stop and grab an image of this guy riding in the harsh temperatures.

We did see two eagles sitting in a tall tree by the Lock and Dam.  They were pretty well covered with branches so I couldn’t get a good in focus shot of them.  We waited for a little while hoping they would do some fishing but they never moved.

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On a back road we saw this eagle feasting on some small animal that we suspected he had caught.  I removed the animal because it was gross.  The eagle was very far away testing the limits of my hand holding ability with the Tamron lens.  I just get much better images when I mount it on a tripod.

That’s all I have for you today.  I’m off today for the President’s Day Holiday.  If you have to work, make it a great day and if you’re lucky enough to be off, enjoy your day.

Thanks for stopping by the blog.  Be careful.

Thursday ~ November 06, 2014

Posted by Dave Updegraff on November 6, 2014
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Tug Boats

Happy Thursday!!

My biggest challenge yesterday was not to rub my eye.  It itched the entire day and there really wasn’t any time that I wasn’t thinking about rubbing it.

I still have the flickering this morning but it does seem to be a little less than yesterday so I’m hopeful in a short time it will stop.

I talked to a friend yesterday who some years back had cataracts in both of her eyes removed.  She had some of the same issues I’m having but she assured me they would go away.   I guess you can have cataracts at any age because she is way too young to have had them.

The image above was taken by the lock and dam.  I was at the river looking for some shots to capture and I notice this young woman get out of her SUV with a lens that was almost as big as she was.

Well being a certified gear head I had to have a look at that lens and I figured anyone with a lens like that must love photography and gear so we’d have something to talk about.

Come to find out she was Jessica Riley from the Telegraph Herald.  She was at the river capturing some of the last vestiges of fall.  She had a Cannon 400 mm f2.8 lens.  We didn’t talk long but I did tell her I enjoyed her work from the newspaper (which I do) and that I knew Brian Cooper.  I didn’t want her to think I was some Kook stalking her.  🙂

The sad thing is I really couldn’t pick her out of a line up after that encounter because I was admiring her lens.  There doesn’t seem to be a known cure for what I have.

That’s it for today.  Thanks for stopping by.  Enjoy your Thursday and be careful.