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Sunday, January 31, 2010 - Bosque Birdwatchers RV Park, San Antonio NM

Sandhill Crane, Bosque National Wildlife Refuge, San Antonio NM, January 30, 2010
Sandhill Crane, Bosque National Wildlife Refuge, San Antonio NM, January 30, 2010

Man o man - I shot this handheld with George's Canon EF 100-400mm f4.5-5.6L IS USM Telephoto Zoom Lens on my new Canon EOS 7D camera. Zoomed all the way out to 400mm. Other than cropping this image is right straight out of the camera. This old duffer who never handled a real camera before finds this just amazing. What a hoot!

You'll find a larger version of this picture over on my Birds Series of photos.

Thank you George for letting me play with this lens.

Night camp

Site 16 - Bosque Bird Watcher's RV Park, San Antonio NM

Our Peripheral Existence

Being a minority in both caste and class, we moved about anyway on the hem of life, struggling to consolidate our weaknesses and hang on, or to creep singly up into the major folds of the garment. Our peripheral existence, however, was something we had learned to deal with, probably because it was abstract.

The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison

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