Pictures from a Convocation

Honors Convocation

California State University, Northridge

May 20th 2013

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6:40

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7:15

7:30

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Honor Student: Emily Rainey
Proud Mother: Judy Todd
Camera and Lens: Olympus ODM-EM5, M.Zuiko 75-300 mm and M.Zuiko 17 mm f/1.8.

Great Horned Owls in Seal Beach

Gum Grove Park. Owls are in the first (center of photo)
tree adjacent to the path. Best view is from the hill-side.

Notes.
Great Horned Owl  Gum Grove Park
Camera: Canon 7D 100-400 L IS and iPhone 4

Wine Tasting at Diane and John's

Tasting Panel publisher and executive editor Meridith May

Playbill

Delightful evening

Last Glass

Note

Camera: iPhone 4

Dance with Life

...the people exercising look as if they were taken with a bit of German expressionism in mind, as in movies by Murnau or even later works by Bergman! (Steve Login)

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Steve (long-time friend from UC Berkeley) made his observation on a sepia version of Stretching Bands  Photo
Bergman's The Seventh Seal--Dance with/of Death  Movie Clip  Image History 
Photos location: Exercisers were on an observation mound adjacent to the Loop Trail at Bolsa Chica Wetlands, Huntington Beach, CA. Pictures were taken from PCH.  Wikipedia
Camera info: Canon 7D with EF 100-400mm
Exposure: iso 100 400mm f22 1/320
Except for the crop, no post processing, that is, images are "out of the camera"

Chance It Triassic

Learning the Science Rap and the Choreography from

"Triassic Parq" with Kelly Todd 

24hr Chance-a-Thon

Notes.

The Chance Theater

Camera info: Olympus OMD E-M5 M.Zuiko 12mm f2.0

Birding Bolsa Chica

Over 200 species visit the Bolsa Chica Wetlands. "Big" birds offer easy "looks" for beginners and children.

White Pelicans

Great Blue Herons

Snowy Egret

Somewhat smaller birds can be spotted by the trail and overhead.

 Black-crowned Night-heron

Osprey

Osprey

Even some of the smaller birds present themselves for easy viewing.

Foster's Tern

Kestrel

Marbled Godwits

And the smallest--can you find them?

Snowy Plover

Belding's Savannah Sparrow

Ducks too!

Bufflehead

Pintails

Greater Scaup

See you there.

Notes.

The wetlands are located across PCH from Bolsa Chica State Beach in Huntington Beach, California. Wikipedia

Judy led birding tours for The Bolsa Chica Land Trust for many years. Photos taken with various Canon Cameras mated with an EF 100-400 mm L IS.

A November Day at Bosque del Apache

Sunrise

North-west and easterly looks, respectively (from the North Crane Pond) and "Birder Shadows" after fly-out:

Afternoon at the Farm Deck
Snow Geese fly-up (original and black and white, respectively) and Sandhill Cranes flying-in:

Sundown

At the Flight-deck:

Notes.

Cameras: Canon 7D with 100-400 mm L IS and OM-EM5 with Lumix 12-35 mm/f2.8 

About the Refuge at Bosque del Apache

Earlier Retirement Flow photos taken during the Festival of Cranes at Bosque del Apache: Fly-out, fly-up, and Fly-ins...

Raptors at the Bosque