Figure 1 – Black-Capped Chickadee, Poecile atricapillus, Sudbury, MA. (c) DE Wolf 2014.

Regular readers of Hati and Skoll will probably have noticed that the look of the website changed over the weekend.  I have been dissatisfied with some of the features of the “Theme” that I was using (or lack there of) and have been planning on changing it and making the look zippier.  I welcome any comments on how it is now looking to you.  If you do write, please let me know what device you are using: laptop, laptop wide, IPad or other tablet, vertical or horizontal.  One of the big challenges nowadays is getting it to appear well in all formats , on all devices.

This is not the final refinement of the site.  I just wanted to get the new “Theme” up and running with all the pages intact.  So this is really only a first pass at it, and it will undergo further modification over the next few weeks.

I thought that I would also post the image of Figure 1, which shows the very noble little bird, indeed the Massachusetts state bird, the Black-Capped Chickadee, Poecile atricapillus. Learning to photograph birds is a major educational experience and it is particularly difficult for the smaller song birds like the chickadee. The continues to be a major sharpness issue.  This image was taken using a monopd at 400 mm with IS on, which I find is better than trying to use a tripod with IS off.

Canon T2i with EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM at 400 mm, ISO 1600, Aperture-priority AE mode, 1/250th sec at f/6.3 with +1 exposure compensation.