We went out birdwatching on Christmas day along the edges of San Francisco Bay. It was dark and gray and blustery, but we saw a few birds out there.
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Sporadic dispatches from the hinterlands.
Franklin Point
Yesterday I wanted to get out for a walk not too far from home, and I ended up at Franklin Point, just up the coast from Año Nuevo. It’s a little less than a half hour drive.
It was too windy for birdwatching, so I watched the clouds instead. Sometimes it’s good to get out there even for half a day, as a reminder that this is where we live.
Birds with Sony
We recently got a new camera: a Sony A7R4, along with a Sony 200-600mm lens. These are our first bird shots as we start to learn how to use the elaborate autofocus and other options with this rig. I tried using auto ISO, which worked pretty well. Most of these birds were in fairly low light, so the ISO went up as I tried to maintain a shutter speed of 1/1000 sec. There’s always more noise at higher ISO, but this camera shows less distracting noise than our Canon 5D III.
Family Portraits
A bunch of us got together at Harmony Farm for a weekend of family feasting. We ate and drank heroically, and in the afternon Joy and I decided to try to branch out from our usual nature photography to take some pictures of people (and one cat).
