Recent content by ThomasM

Starlink is a game changer for our house on the OP. I just installed it recently and wish I had done it sooner. Up until then, we had CenturyLink DSL through the phone line with maybe 12MBs when it decided to work, for $120 a month. My shitty Verizon coverage was actually a little faster at 2...

Another long-time Fuji user here. Like Adam, mostly Provia but also Astia. Pretty much exclusively in 120 medium format and 4x5". I still have a very nice Hassy and have been thinking about repurchasing my old Ebony 4x5 field camera but it'd be for negatives. While Provia doesn't seem to be...

Very sorry to hear about Omar. Yuki turned 10yo a couple months back. Hard to imagine what it'll be like without her. She was looking thoughtful the other day when I was testing a new (to me) lens so I grabbed a snap. Yuki Thinking by Thomas Mitchell, on Flickr

This was a couple years ago at our place on the coast. Must have been a migratory group going through as the residents never have more than one at a time. Really gets going around 45sec mark.

Not a hybrid (there is a hybrid but it's a bit more $$) but for a fishing/outdoor-able car meeting the other requirements, Subaru Crosstrek. Super reliable. https://www.motortrend.com/features/is-subaru-crosstrek-reliable-jd-power-dependability

Mouth of the Quileute River Mouth At Low Tide

Sound Sotto Voce_01 Lake Submerged Logs Under Heavy Sky

Great thread and much appreciated. My wife (WA native, with next to no experience in the southeast) just did a solo week-long road trip from Charleston to Nashville investigating communities around bass fishing reservoirs scouting locations in NW South Carolina, NW Georgia, NE Alabama, and...

Lover your jungle. Super jealous. Growing up in semi-rural Alabama, it was impossible for my parents to have hostess. The whitetails would eat them to the ground every time.

Was out this AM looking for landscape shots and saw heron fishing at low tide. After I got my normal shot, threw the 600 on and got a couple of the GBH despite the tough back lighting. The other shot. Heron Fishing At Low Tide

Follow-up... My daughter is in Tucson right now on a birding trip and spotted a Coppery-tailed Trogon at Madera Canyon. Her pics below. I hd no idea they nested in woodpecker holes.

I'm ashamed of myself for never having done this given the amount of time I spend on those beaches walking the dog. JimK schooled me on methods a while back but still haven't tried. Gotta get on that this summer. There are also the short-finned grayling that are always around but not at the...

There isn't much access public bank access on the Sol Duc and the part of the Calawah that is accessible will be very low in July most years. Neither are well known for trout fishing. There are some coastal cutthroat around but most of what you'd catch would be steelhead and salmon parr...

Carpenter Bee coming in for a landing on a Prickly Poppy. Gopher Snake interrupting my bike ride. Thought it was a jingle worm and slammed on the brakes.

Yep, Montezuma Quail. That's what we were looking for down in Patagonia yesterday. No luck! But plenty of other cool stuff.