Greetings All! Sorry for the long delay in getting another post out – although in my defense I did exceed my quota last month. I actually got through the January posts fairly early in the month which gave me time to work on a new project, Yeah! A lot of my projects are a result of stumbling on something on the Internet and deciding that it would be sufficient challenge to put energy towards. The goal always being to embrace the concept and then extend it to another level. This project source was a little different – I stol… err embraced an idea from my brother Ron. So, credit goes to him for motivating to get this endeavor done.
With no further delay, I am proud to announce the start of my Photography Bird Life List.
The actual gallery can be located on our Eddiesoft Photography Gallery powered by Smugmug (link here). The link should take you directly into the root of the gallery. From a project perspective, this has to be one of the more tedious and time consuming ones I’ve taken on. It sure sounded simple when Ron brought up the idea. Simply have a gallery of shots for each of the birds on the life list. The intent is to focus on the “best shots” of the species from a “Birders” perspective. Anytime I was able to improve on a shot I would simply swap it out with the better version. That sounds great unless you have a LOT of bird shots (as you would expect I do if you spend any time on this blog at all). The issue isn’t so much the overall amount as it is having to choose which of your babies gets the honor of being the featured image on the gallery. The more common the bird the harder the task since there are typically more shots to choose from. I clarified that this gallery was intended to have a Birder’s approach. That simply means it would attempt to demonstrate the overall characteristics of the species. Various angles, settings, genders, seasonal differences etc. would be included when available. I did try to include what I consider my “best” overall shot which took a long time due to having to gather up all the photos of a particular bird and proceed to whittle away until I was comfortable with the shots to upload. Note, in some cases this was easier because there I were only one or two shots and trust me, not all of them are ummm.. good. Over time those crap shots should get weeded out.
Hit the jump to read more about the List
