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August 02, 2008

Vacation Photos

Laughing Gull(second winter)

We just returned from a vacation to Louisiana, Mississippi, and Florida. I shot approximately 2,500 images over 8 days in July of '08 with a Canon EOS 40D and two different lenses. One lens is an image stabilized, ultra-sonic telescopic zoom lens (EF-S 17-85mm f/4.0-5.6 IS USM). The larger lens is a Canon L-Series image stabilized, ultra-sonic telescopic zoom lens (EF 100-400mm f/4.0-5.6 IS USM) with a 77mm circular polarizing filter and an ET-83C hood.

I've posted some of the shots as a 31 Meg (5:25) Adobe Flash slideshow(vacation.swf) that you should be able to open and view with any browser. If you want to view the slideshow as a Windows executable, you can play this version (vacation.exe), and it allows you to play, pause, skip forward, etc.

Image post-processing was done in Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended. The slideshow was created using Imagematics Stillmotion Pro, which I highly recommend.

I had to ask for help in identifying the seagull. Turns out it is a "second winter Laughing Gull".

Click here to view the other slideshows.

The soundtrack is House Of Cards, by Radiohead off of the album "In Rainbows". Lyrics in extended entry.

Artists > Radiohead > House Of Cards

I don’t want to be your friend
I just want to be your lover
No matter how it ends
No matter how it starts

Forget about your house of cards
And I’ll do mine
Forget about your house of cards
And I’ll do mine

Fall off the table and get swept under

Denial, denial

The infrastructure will collapse
From voltage spikes
Put your keys in the bowl
Kiss your husband goodnight

Forget about your house of cards
And I’ll do mine
Forget about your house of cards
And I’ll do mine

Fall off the table and get swept under

Denial, denial
Denial, denial
(Your ears should be burning)
Denial, denial
(Your ears should be burning)

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Posted by Rob Kiser on August 02, 2008 at 03:22 PM

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