Posts Made By: Jeff Hapeman

I know what it is...but this isn't your usual view . I was testing out my new FLI PDF focuser last night, and it works like a champ, although it's HUGE 8O . Since it was full moon, I decided to shoot Hydrogen-alpha...and had to wait until nearly morning for the interesting nebulae of the milky way to rise...but that gave me time to train the temperature compensation :S .

So...who wins on the first right guess? Your prize is...personal pride .

Jef

OK, as the newly assigned moderator of this forum, I thought I would introduce myself more than just my photos I have posted over the last few years.

I have been a birder for most of my life, pretty "hard-core" since high school almost 20 years ago...in the last few years I have gotten into photographing birds. As for photography, I have been at that for a little more than 20 years as well, starting with a Pentax K1000, moving to Nikon, and then recently switching to Canon (the IS in the long glass for shooting birds was a deciding factor).

As for the Internet/Web, I have been a "user" since the very early 1990's, and have been involved in web development, etc. for almost a decade.

So, moderating...well, the goal is to lighten Herb's load. I will be pretty lenient here. Keep posts clean, and on topic and you will never see anything from me except my posts. Please work to keep posts constructive and helpful, rather than rude, etc.

One rule of my own: Please ask the original poster before editing their image and reposting. In general, it is considered good etiquette to ask permission first--after all, the photo belongs to the original poster. The exception would be when the poster puts something in the original message asking for people to edit and repost.

That's it--look forward to seeing more people here. Let's grow the forum!

Jeff

OK, as the newly assigned moderator of this forum, I thought I would introduce myself more than just my photos I have posted over the last few years.

I have been a birder for most of my life, pretty "hard-core" since high school almost 20 years ago...in the last few years I have gotten into photographing birds and other wildlife. As for photography, I have been at that for a little more than 20 years as well, starting with a Pentax K1000, moving to Nikon, and then recently switching to Canon (the IS in the long glass for shooting birds was a deciding factor).

As for the Internet/Web, I have been a "user" since the very early 1990's, and have been involved in web development, etc. for almost a decade.

So, moderating...well, the goal is to lighten Herb's load. I will be pretty lenient here. Keep posts clean, and on topic and you will never see anything from me except my posts. Please work to keep posts constructive and helpful, rather than rude, etc.

One rule of my own: Please ask the original poster before editing their image and reposting. In general, it is considered good etiquette to ask permission first--after all, the photo belongs to the original poster. The exception would be when the poster puts something in the original message asking for people to edit and repost.

That's it--look forward to seeing more people here. Let's grow the forum!

Jeff

I took these about 9 days ago. The swallows are coming through on migration right now, and these guys were flying over the ponds near our house. Not the most colorful birds, but still very beautiful, I think.

Canon 1Ds Mark II, 500mm f/4 IS, 1.4x TC.

Jeff

If anyone is interested, I am selling my Canon 100-400L IS lens. I have a great copy that I personally picked out, but guys like Dan Kaiser infected me with "prime fever" and now I don't really use the zoom. Someone should get some good use out of it. The ad is posted in the cameras and lenses section.

I thought some of the bird photographers here should get an early crack at this if they were interested.

Jeff

Well, migration has begun here in southern WI. Today I heard Tennessee warblers singing in the morning, then Nashville, Golden-winged and American Redstart this afternoon. This afternoon it cleared up and the sun came out, so I took out the Canon 1Ds Mark II with the 500mm f/4 IS and 1.4x TC to try and get some images. The orioles and bluebirds kept too far away, but I did get lucky, and saw this Palm Warbler.

Jeff

Migration is in full swing here in southern WI, but the weather has been lousy. I got a few hours of sunlight this am, and went out. About the only subject that cooperated was this Scarlet Tanager, and even then, I only got one shot I was pleased with. Canon 1Ds Mark II, 500mm f/4L IS w/ 2x TCII.

BTW, Dan--this has fill-flash dialed in at -1EV, 580EX and Better Beamer.

OK, well, it was cloudy yesterday and the birds were not out, so I decided to mess with my new ring flash on my macro lens. The only thing out were these flies on the dandelions. I shot these with my 20D and the 100mm f/2.8 macro.

The weather was lovely today and I went out to hunt down some Yellow Lady's-slippers orchids (I found them, pictures to come later). I found this lovely wild geranium--actually they were everywhere, but this bloom and bud set looked perfect--and had to shoot an image. This is uncropped, straight out of the camera, just resized for the web.

Jeff

Robert's image made me realize I had not posted this image here. I took this image earlier this spring, about three weeks ago. I watched a male and female Blue-gray Gnatcatcher as they built a nest. The male came in close, and I was able to get this shot off.

Jeff