Last week, Anya and I took Friday off to celebrate my birthday. Since I wanted to go somewhere to take photos, and we had just recently visited Phipps, we ended up at the National Aviary. So I am just going to provide a teaser set of photos from that trip...

Technical Data: Canon EOS 7D, Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM, 1/250 sec at f/2.8. Image Stabilization on. ISO 400. RAW processing and cropped in Adobe Camera Raw (mouseover for original). National Aviary, Pittsburgh, PA.

Technical Data: Canon EOS 7D, Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM, 1/60 sec at f/4. Image Stabilization on. ISO 400. Canon Speedlight 580EX II flash in auto mode. RAW processing in Adobe Camera Raw. National Aviary, Pittsburgh, PA.

Technical Data: Canon EOS 7D, Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM, 1/200 sec at f/5. Image Stabilization on. ISO 400. Canon Speedlight 580EX II flash in auto mode. RAW processing and cropped in Adobe Camera Raw (mouseover for original). National Aviary, Pittsburgh, PA.

We ended up buying a membership, so this will be the first of many trips to the Aviary, I'm sure.... especially since I made plenty of mistakes that I need to correct in subsequent trips.

- Bill