(due to a glitch in my mobile blogging software, you're just now seeing this. It was originally posted on 2008-03-16 at 8:15am)
Aside from the aforementioned broken lens, yesterday was awesome.
I photographed wild turkeys and even managed to get a tom to eat right out of my hand.
I saw lots of beautiful birds and even got to photograph them thanks to a kind soul from the amarillo photography society for lending me a nice long lens. I don't think Jess is going to like him too much since he pretty much sold me on getting some even longer glass. We'll see what the photos look like.
We made the 6 mile trek in to the lighthouse rock and back. It was beautiful we even managed to catch the moonrise on our way out which made for some great photos. I'm a bit sun-fried this morning since I didn't wear any sunscreen, but it's nothing too bad.
Most of the day, including the walk to the lighthouse rock, was spent a couple of amarillo area photographers including a 75ish year old man who could easily run circles around me both in hiking and in landscape photography. He even brought a fully restored corvair for us all to marvel at. What a great guy. I hope to keep in touch with him via email.
Here in a bit we'll be heading out for Dallas with a planned stop at caprock canyon state park. I hear they have some beautiful trails there and I'm really looking forward to it.
Email, text messages and phone should all now work again, thanks to being out of the canyon. More later…
