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Re: Eagle Shots
[Re: Tony Bynum]
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12/14/07 05:41 PM
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You are both welcome to come up here to photograph. The best time for the Eagles are from Mid Feb to mid March. That is the time when the sun and wind is right for the classic Eagle flying shot with the Blue Sky background and Jeanne is still feeding the Eagles. For the Northern Lights, spend a week in Fairbanks anytime in the Winter. WARNING!! Fairbanks in the winter can be -55F. For my cameras, I am building an external power supply using an 8 volt gel cell battery with a 5AH rating. It should give me about 8 - 10 shooting hours at the sub zero temps.
If anybody wants to come up here to photograph the Eagles, make your plans because Jeanne may stop feeding the Eagles any year now and by law she has to stop feeding them in 2010. This photo op will only exist for 2 more years.
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Re: Eagle Shots
[Re: Guideboat]
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12/14/07 11:24 PM
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I agree, you shoot with what you have. Most of my Eagle shots are done with my 300mm or my 80-200mm if I want to get a single Eagle (hard to do at the Homer Spit). This year I am going to take a wide angle photo with about 100 Eagles on the beach.
Last week the temps here were in the 30-40F but this week they are in the 20F. I live in Soldotna, not Fairbanks (500 miles to the north). Fairbanks is where it gets cold.
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Re: Eagle Shots
[Re: Guideboat]
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12/15/07 04:14 AM
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I grew up in Ohio where I have seen it get to -20F, when I came to Alaska, I never went back to Ohio. The winter weather here in Soldotna is about the same as Ohio, just a couple of months longer.
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Re: Eagle Shots
[Re: Ronn Stacy]
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12/20/07 05:17 PM
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I left Alaska for 5 years and I will never do that again.
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