With heavy rains, cold temperatures and a shift of the Southern Jet Stream, Monarchs have had to change their paths. Making such a trip north requires strong and favorable currents of air which we just have not had since our last post. Furthermore, we have been in the 40s for days and the possibility of a late frost this weekend looms heavy.
It has allowed only one day of shooting in the past 10 days. We are pleased to announce that we have added another camera to our wagon wheel shoots and in doing so it has increased both the range and the clarity with an additional 20.5 mega pixels and a focal power up to 375 MM. Since the obituary of Olympus shook a lot of us to the core, we will continue to use our old Olympus for certain details as long as we can get parts or find a really good reconditioned body.. After looking at a lot of cameras and lens, packages and individual features, we settled on the Canon OES Rebel T7. Then, it was a full week of tracking down some connecting equipment too, so we could maintain our system as close as we used with the Nikon and the Olympus equipment. Finally, we found what we needed locally and it worked.
And wouldn't you know it-- the Dallas Arboretum's half million tulips are in full bloom. Now, it's going to be a race to get even a few shots this year before the show ends by time element or by weather. The National Weather Service has confirmed today that there were two tornadoes and three super cells were skipping around the neighborhoods. Spring time in Texas!! There was a lot of damage for strong EF1 spin ups.
So, from the one day that I was able to shoot with the new equipment. That will be the long and the short of it from this post for now.
