Shoot 2023-05-23-065122 — philthompson.me

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Shoot 2023-05-23-065122

I had a pleasant morning walk at a local lake. I didn't see anything terribly noteworthy. The water was quite high but there were very few water fowl out and about; just a few far-off grebes. I did however really enjoy photographing a Spotted Sandpiper. I photographed one on March 1st in winter plumage, and here 12 weeks later this one was in full breeding plumage.

My "birds in review" collages can be found here.

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The above hashes-<date>.txt file contains SHA-256 hashes of all the photos from this shoot. The hashes-<date>.txt.sig is a signature of that hashes file, created with my PGP key. The signature file itself was written to both the Bitcoin Cash and Algorand blockchains, in the OP RETURN and Note fields respectively, using the transactions below. In short, this proves that these photos and the signature both existed at the time the transactions were written to the Bitcoin Cash and Algorand blockchains. This blog post has more details.

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7:29AM Sunday May 21, 2023

Tree Swallow

7:35AM Sunday May 21, 2023

Bald Eagle

7:52AM Sunday May 21, 2023

This is a smaller crop of the large panorama that shows a distant canoe/kayak that I couldn't even see when shooting this.

7:52AM Sunday May 21, 2023

I stiched together 16 shots using Lightroom Classic to make this 33,442x3,426 pixel panorama (114.5 megapixels). I'm not sure what I'm going to do with it, and it didn't turn out to be very spectacular, but it's still fun to see how easily Lightroom creates panoramas.

7:52AM Sunday May 21, 2023

This is a 16,596x3,426 pixel crop (56.8 megapixels) of the larger panorama.

7:55AM Sunday May 21, 2023

Spotted Sandpiper

7:55AM Sunday May 21, 2023

Spotted Sandpiper

7:55AM Sunday May 21, 2023

Spotted Sandpiper

7:58AM Sunday May 21, 2023

Spotted Sandpiper

7:58AM Sunday May 21, 2023

Spotted Sandpiper

For these close-up shots, I tried laying on the ground and propping myself up on my elbows. It worked great and it was fun to shoot at eye level with the bird.

7:58AM Sunday May 21, 2023

Spotted Sandpiper