While attending the Midwest Birding Symposium in Lakeside, Ohio, I had the exceptional good fortune to meet Connie, author of Birds O’ The Morning. During our many conversations over the course of the symposium, she casually commented to me that she really appreciated all the interesting items of field gear I profile on Born Again […]
John E. Riutta
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Posts by John E. Riutta, MA, MBA, FLS, MemRES:
DSLR Digiscoping Discoveries
As promised in my recent “Digiscoping with a DSLR Camera” entry, I have news to report regarding lens effectiveness for digiscoping using the Canon EOS 40D DSLR camera and Swarovski’s UCA. When we last left off, I had noted that the Canon EF 35mm f/2.0 lens might hold some promise as possibly being a lens […]
John Muir’s Writings Surge in Popularity
Thanks to the popularity of Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan’s landmark documentary film The National Parks, America’s Best Idea presently being broadcast on PBS, the writings of John Muir have been selling at an astonishing pace.
Photo Interlude: Montezuma Castle
In honor of the debut of Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan’s The National Parks, America’s Best Idea on PBS, a couple images of one of the many places we still have thanks to such a system of preservation being in place. Montezuma Castle National Monument, near Camp Verde, Arizona; one of the four sites that […]