Camping with Alaska Teardrop in Michigan's UP

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Oh WOW. Gorgeous colors. Thanks for sharing. Feel free to share more

[Westcliffe01]

Feeding chipmunks at the Muskallonge State Park while at the campfire...


Chippie making off with his loot for winter


The entire beach at the state park is covered with pebbles like this


Lake Superior with a little bit of wind blowing (not even a storm yet)


We have been going out there at least once a year, sometimes earlier, sometimes later in the season.

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Beautiful pictures! What kind of camera do you shoot with?

[Westcliffe01]

I actually still use film cameras. Fuji 6x9, Voiglaender 35mm and a Linhof Kardan large format camera (bellows and black cloth deal). Of all my cameras, only the 35mm has a battery and thats only for measuring exposure.... I like the thinking persons camera. I spent a week at Linhof in Germany doing some training on their large format camera systems which included shooting some 8x10" polaroids... That was cool.

However, having said that, those pictures were shot with the Canon EOS digital SLR I got for my wife. She usually has a 28-80 zoom on it, even though she has some good lenses that she usually only uses when visiting nature reserves. She did get some great pictures "on safari" in South Africa and also of the pelicans fishing off the Florida Keys (Bahia Honda state park)

[Westcliffe01]

A few of her "safari" pictures..

Kudu


Gemsbock


Rhino
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3007/2468591993_07858207ba_z.jpg?zz=1

Lion

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Very nice pics from two continents! I could tell you weren't a use-a-point-and-shoot-on-auto kind of guy.

Thanks again for sharing your UP pictures. It makes me want to go visit Muskallonge Lake State Park the next time I'm in MI.

[Westcliffe01]

For wildlife, the entry ticket used to be a 600mm F4 lens and a 1.4 and 2x magnifiers. But now if you get a 200 F2.8 or a 300 F2.8 (if you can afford it) together with a 1.4 and 2.0x matched magnifiers, it works very well with digital cameras that use a smaller chip than the original film size. She found she needed everything she could get in Africa and typically had on the 200 F2.8 and the 2x doubler.

[Westcliffe01]

Here she is at the Sand Dunes National Monument in Southern Colorado



She is a nurse in her "real" job. now the practise manager of an oncology clinic and right now recovering from her (own) second bout with cancer. Will probably be back at work in a few weeks,