Long Key Park in Davie, FL continues to be my favorite spot for the time being !
It works best as an evening shoot for the nice light on the rookery and the incoming Ibis that
flock to the park to roost for the night. Excellent opportunities for flight shots and a great place to meet new photographers such as Aurelio Miranda-Sousa from Miami. Check out his work at
BondbyArt.Com ! Aurelio is getting a new Canon 300 2.8 lens today. Oh Yeah !!

My Canon 1D2N is back in my hands and fixed. Here's what Canon FSC in NJ did to my camera : Replaced body mount , lock pin unit and replaced the shutter unit. Checked all , exposure & focus and cleaned C-mos to factory specs.

Sounds good ! I will try it out tonight at Long Key. Fingers crossed.

However a good lesson came out of all this as I am continued to be amazed at just how good the Canon 40D really is !! It is an all around solid camera and a worthy back up to my Canon Mark 1D2N to say the least !


Here's a couple more form the 40D:

Little Blue Heron in Flight over Water


Cattle Egret in Flight over cloudy skies

I went to Wakodahatchee Wetlands tonight for the fist time in a long time as I have been really working the evenings at Long Key Park in Davie, FL.

It was rather quiet at Wako but I did manage to capture an image of a Female Boat Tailed Grackle that had some leucistic genes. Here's an image.

Here's another image from Gatorland in Orlando . It is a Osprey in full dive mode
for a fish that was directly in front of me.... he missed.

I also just got my Canon Mark 1D2N back from canon today after shutter failure occurred last week. Cost $50.00 for shipping & Insurance and $323.00 for repair. Ouchhhh.
The only good thing to come out of this is I REALLY appreciate my Canon 40D. It is a smashing good camera.

Michael Wolf

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I have been doing a lot of shooting at Long Key park in Davie , FL lately and
have been working on silhouette images in the last minutes of sunlight.
I also just spend two days at Gatorland in Orlando a place I love to visit & shoot at !
The owner Mike Godwin is a superb host and will show you the magic places to shoot
that are not usually open to the public !
I had the pleasure of shooting along side of photographer BJ Ramsay of Maryland as well as
Jeff D Johnston from Alabama .

I also had shutter failure on my Canon 1D2N after 80,044 images and it is at Canon NJ repair facility to be fixed or 300.00 ! Ouch !!

So here is a silhouette from Davie of a pair of bickering White Ibis & a pair of Cattle Egret from Gatorland for you to enjoy !