Friday, December 31, 2010 - LoW-HI RV Ranch, Deming NM
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Snow Goose, Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, San Antonio NM, February 4, 2010
Only twenty thousand pictures to sort
Ha! I was so busy playing with the new Canon EOS 7D 18 MP CMOS Digital SLR Camera with 3-inch LCD and 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM Standard Zoom Lens I bought from Amazon last January I didn't take the time to organize the thousands of pictures I was taking. Big mistake.
I was staying at the Bosque Birdwatchers RV Park and spent at lot of time at the nearby Bosque Del Apache National Wildlife Refuge experimenting and practicing panning on birds in flight in High Speed Continuous mode to see if I could get some decent shots of birds in flight. I was doing this hand held and trying to teach my body to swing smoothly enough to get pictures that were reasonably sharp. That takes some practice and at 8 shots a second adds up to a lot of pictures.
At the time I didn't do much more than give them a quick look to see what I was getting - often nothing worth keeping - before moving on to the next shoot. I didn't even take the time to delete the obvious clunkers.
So here I sit, throwing away tons of junk and stumbling on a few keepers like this one.
Night camp
Site 8 - LoW-HI RV Ranch, Deming NM
- This is a spacious 65 site campground with most sites offering full hookups.
- Locate LoW-HI RV Ranch on my Night Camps map
- Verizon cell phone - strong signal
- Verizon Broadband - strong signal but often slow
- Check the weather in Deming NM
The Heliograph in the Apache Wars
"The mountains and the sun...were made his allies, the eyes of his command, and the carriers of swift messages. By a system of heliograph signals, communications were sent with almost incredible swiftness; in one instance a message traveled seven hundred miles in four hours. The messages, flashed by mirrors from peak to peak of the mountains, disheartened the Indians as they crept stealthily or rode swiftly through the valleys, assuring them that all their arts and craft had not availed to conceal their trails, that troops were pursuing them and others awaiting them. The telescopes of the Signal Corps, who garrisoned the rudely built but impregnable works on the mountains, permitted no movement by day, no cloud of dust even in the valleys below to escape attention. Little wonder that the Indians thought that the powers of the unseen world were confederated against them."