It was in the 70’s yesterday (20 degrees colder today) and we had spring fever. We normally take a walk on Fridays so we decided to take ours at Huntley Meadows Park in Fairfax County, VA. We go there two or three times a year. Only a few of the birds have returned, but we did see a hawk from years past.
We hand-held our cameras and used a mediocre (but versatile) Sigma 18-250mm lens on a Canon SL/2 to catch this shot. We have been trying this combination to get weight down when we travel. In our last trip to India, our luggage was overweight for a regional flight and the fee for the excess weight was almost equal to the fare.
As an aside, we processed this in Lightroom and tried the new “Enhance Details” option. Aside from taking a couple of minutes to process (the CPU was at 100% utilization), we couldn’t see any improvement in the enhanced image. Lightroom seems to be getting slower and slower without perceptible benefits.
iball round the world 