Early start and broken 1DX

Early start and broken 1DX

Unfortunately my Canon 1 DX broke down on me (somewhat). The problem actually started about a year ago with the camera refusing to wake up from sleep. Usually, pulling out the battery and reinserting it solved the problem and it would take weeks/months before it happened again. Well, the last few months it started to happen a lot so I started googling a possible cause. Turns out it’s probably a faulty power circuit card. So I sent it of...

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White tailed Eagles

White tailed Eagles

Last weekend Göran let me borrow his Eagle hide for a day. That ment getting in to the hide at Saturday evening, and exiting the day after. I must say I enjoyed it a lot. Göran routinely feeds the eagles with leftovers from a fish precessing plant. This time roughly a 100 kg was spread out som 40-60 m from the hide. Aside from a massive amount of crows and ravens there were plenty of eagles. The weather was shifting and from time to time heavy...

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Kendo

Kendo

Thank’s to Emils connections in the noble art of Kendo we got invited to do a photoshoot for IKSU kendo last tuesday. Kendo as a training method for swordfighting has a very long history arriving in the form practiced today somwhere around the midle of the 18th century. At that time a man named Nakanishi Chuta started using bamboo swords and thick gloves to lessen damages during practice, while still allowing full force attacks....

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White throated dipper

White throated dipper

Today I decided to go to a small stream in the vicinity to try to get som pictures of a White throated dipper. I would suggest att long lens for this kind of photography because the Dipper can be quite shy. I used my trusty 300 mm f/2.8 IS with a 2x extender and since I couldn’t get closer than a 100 feet. The light was really bad so I had to crank upp the ISO really high (up to 10 000). Still it was nice to see this little winter bather...

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