All images prior to December 2006 were taken with:
Nikon D2H body
Fuji S2 Pro body
Sigma 50-500mm APO lens
Sigma 1.4x APO extender
Sigma 10-20mm lens
Sigma 17-35mm lens
Sigma 180mm macro lens
Nikon SB 600 flash

I now use:
Canon 1D Mark III body
Canon 500mm IS F4L lens
Canon 400mm F5.6L lens
Sigma 150mm macro lens
Sigma 100-300mm APO F4 lens
Tokina 12-24 F4 lens
Canon 1.4x EF extender
Kenko DG300 2x extender
Olympus PEN EP-2
Canon 580 Mk 11 flash
Panasonic Lumix LX3
Gitzo 3530 tripod
Wimberley Sidekick




The Digital Darkroom

These days,understanding how to manipulate the digital image is just as important as camera technique. There are literally hundreds of books, DVDs, websites and podcasts to assist in this. I strongly recommend the following which have been so helpful to me:

www.birdsasart.com - Art Morris is my guru. His book 'The Art of Bird Photography' and his new CD, 'The Art of Bird Photography II' are essential reading.

www.lightroomkillertips.com - A site full of great ideas and shortcuts for image processing.

Adobe Photoshop CS2 for Photographers: A Professional Image Editor's Guide to the Creative Use of Photoshop for the Macintosh and PC by Martin Evening. Probably the 'best of the bunch' as far as Photoshop manuals are concerned.

My digital darkroom consists of:
Apple iMac 20" computer
Apple iBook laptop
Adobe Lightroom
Adobe Photoshop CS3 - for image manipulation
iView Mediapro - for cataloging, slideshow presentations, etc
Capture One - for converting raw images
Canon i965 inkjet printer