Video of endangered Sandpiper

David Erterius has recently posted this excellent video of a displaying male Spoon-billed Sandpiper.

Unfortunately this amazing little wader is critically endangered.  The primary cause of the species’ plight is depressingly familiar - habitat loss on both its breeding grounds and migration/winter feeding habitat.

It is thought that there could be fewer than 1000 adults left…meaning that few of us are likely to ever see one ‘in the wild’.

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Stop motion and time lapse

This viral video of a man walking across America is very cool…especially to someone like me who enjoys creating time-lapse video.

The really impressive part is the fact that it has stop-motion animation too!

The following video shows how they did it – excellent stuff!

(via Chase Jarvis blog)

Not photography or birds…

…but very cool.  Especially if you like the Black Eyed Peas.

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Christmas animals…

…with scary mouths.  The telegraph do it again with a great video like the sheep.

Very funny but a good message – go visit:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/breathingplaces/

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Fast big lights

Reading my RSS feed over breakfast this morning and David Hobby was drooling talking about Profoto’s various lighting systems.

Which lead me to digging through the Profoto website and once again working out which of my family and friends I could sell to get some proper big lights…

…and they don’t come more proper than when powered by the Pro-8a Air.

Anyone for “Sensational fast recycling time 0.05–0.9 sec”?

So, what could you do with 10(!) Pro-8 packs and a Canon 1D mkIII body?  Watch to find out.

There is more info on the Profoto website, including the finished video.

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