Saturday, January 30, 2010 - Bosque Birdwatchers RV Park, San Antonio NM
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Glide Slope, Sandhill Cranes, Bosque National Wildlife Refuge, San Antonio NM, January 30, 2010
You'll find a larger version of this picture over on my Birds Series of photos.
This boy wants another new toy
I was kindly given the chance to play with a Canon EF 100-400mm f4.5-5.6L IS USM Telephoto Zoom Lens on my new Canon EOS 7D camera as the Sandhill Cranes and Snow Geese gathered at the roost this afternoon.
I was surprised to find I could easily hand hold this lens at 300mm and with occasional success even at 400mm, like in the image above. A 400mm focal length on this 1.6 x crop sensor camera is equivalent to a 640mm focal length on a 35mm full frame sensor camera. The camera would nearly always hold focus and the lens' onboard Image Stabilization system would deal with the camera shake if I was careful in following the flight path of the incoming birds. Taking bursts at 8 frames per second with the 7D sure filled up my 16 gig card in a hurry but it gave me lots of images to pick the best of the litter from.
An amazing combination. I want one. Thank you George.
Night camp
Site 16 - Bosque Bird Watcher's RV Park, San Antonio NM
- This is a basic, small Mom & Pop RV Park with full hookups.
- Verizon cell phone and Broadband service are available here with a strong signal.
- Locate Bosque Bird Watcher's RV Park on my Night Camps map
- Click for Google street view
- Check the weather in San Antonio NM
The Credential of the Dominant
The general veneration that greets the academy is a sign of its near-sacred station and of the importance of its role in, as Bourdieu would view it, the reproduction of the dominant class and its habitus. Although the rewards of academics are middling in terms of financial capital, the cultural capital they accrue cannot be surpassed. To have a college degree -- only about one-quarter of American adults do -- is to have the credential of the dominant; not to have a college degree is to remain forever among the dominated.
The Whipping Boy, Jib Fowles, Reason magazine, March 2001