My name is Mark Casebeer; I am a retired Michigan based photographer. My blog, It's "MY" Time Photography features stories about my retirement adventures. I hope you enjoy my blog. Please signup for my blog, and you will receive every post in your mailbox.
As most of you already know, Texas had one of its worst cold spells in history. We thought, how cold could it possibly get in Southern Texas?
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It seems like every time I go out to do some photography in the Rockport area I see a bird that I've never photographed. Today was no different.
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Our RV park is located just off business 35 between Rockport and Aransas. It's about six miles from each town. Traveling the two-lane 35 towards Rockport, there is water everywhere.
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In Rockport, Bent Oaks Rookery Park is a fantastic place to see some beautiful birds in the Coastal Bend. The park is an 8.8-acre property along Broadway Street and Little Bay.
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I got up early and headed to the Big Tree area, hoping to photograph some Whooping Cranes in flight. As I arrived, it was about an hour before sunrise, and you could see the stars, so I could tell it was going to be a clear morning.
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After some cold and rainy weather, the sun finally came out today. The temperatures warmed up to the low seventies, which felt great. A group of campers took the opportunity to play some music outside of the clubhouse.
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At approximately 58", the endangered Whooping Crane is the tallest North American bird. Along with the Sandhill Crane, at 48", it is one of only two crane species found in North America.
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My wife Eileen retired at the close of 2020, and we're on our first adventure. After Christmas with our family, we loaded up our RV and headed Southwest to Rockport TX, for the winter.
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As 2020 comes to a close, I like to look back at the pictures I took throughout the year. It was hard to narrow down to my top 12 as I kept over 500 sunset/sunrise pictures. These are my favorites. What is your favorite?
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As the fall colors are fading, the waterfowl migration is in full swing. I went out to a couple of my favorite spots this week.
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As fall starts to fade, I thought I'd take the last trip with some color to the bird sanctuary and take just reflections.
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I've wanted to visit the wetland area close to my house to try photographing some Sandhill Silhouettes—the weather forecasted a partly cloudy sunrise, perfect!
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I've been having problems with my X-T3 camera and after sending it in for repairs twice I think they finally fixed the issue. I took a short trip to the Bird Sanctuary to test it out.
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We decided to take a long weekend and booked a spot at Indigo Bluffs RV Park close to Empire, MI. The trip was also a test to see how our Labrador Retriever would do traveling.
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On Saturday, Gilmore Museum had a Jeep and Trucks show. It was a beautiful morning, and although I own a Jeep, I couldn't resist riding my Harley to the show.
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We took a ride to Cement City to the Artesian Wells Sports Bar for there Thursday bike night. It's a nice ride; it was sunny and a chilly, felt a little bit like fall.
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I just purchased the Fuji X100V camera to complement my primary Fuji XT-3 camera. It's a smaller camera with a fixed 35mm F2 lens.
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t's a sign of seasons change as Sandhill Cranes are filling some of the fields looking for food. I've been watching one fresh-cut area near my house for about a week.
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Randy Vallance invited me to take photos at the Bohm Theater in Albion, MI. for Bohm Country. Randys been a long-time supporter of the theater and was doing a live-streamed video for the Bohms Facebook page.
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We took our first long trip with our motorhome to the Black Hills of South Dakota. We also took two of our grandsons.
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My Brother-in-law, David Rombaugh, has been a racing fan and raced stock cars for years. It's been a few years since David raced, but his son Kyle started racing.
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My favorite photographer is Dan Bailey. He's a professional photographer that shoots Fujifilm. Dan's a little different than most photographers I follow.
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Our first trip with our new motorhome to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. What a beautiful area!
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My son-in-law Rusty invited me to shoot in a blind at his father's house. It's a beautiful piece of property north of Battle Creek.
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I've been busy working on getting the dock and boats in the water. Everything is ready for summer; now all we need is the sun and warmer temperatures to get the water to warm up.
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I was on our deck grilling some chicken, and a few Yellow-rumped Warblers kept flying from branch to branch in our sycamore tree and landed on the deck railing.
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I don't know about you, but I'm getting stir crazy! We're not used to spending so much time at home, and some fresh air and a walk in the woods would do me some good.
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Spring in Michigan! Warmer weather, Robins are plentiful, Sandhill Cranes are migrating back to their summer habitat, trees are starting to bud.
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The challenge is to simulate what photographers had to deal with during the analog film days.
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Thank you, Fuji X Passion, for the opportunity to share my passion. I hope you enjoyed my article and stay safe.
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Spring is in the air and it's time to start shooting more wildlife. On a beautiful sunny morning, I packed up my gear I went to the bird sanctuary.
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We attended the 5th anniversary show in Albion at the Bohm Theater Monday night. The Chris Canas Band was the headliner.
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On Presidents Day my daughters Sarah and Kelly brought their kids (plus 2 cousins) to our house to go sliding.
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What a fun weekend in Marshall, MI. Friday night the downtown was buzzing with people looking at the ice sculptures.
I attended the 2020 Blues Jam and Chili Cook-Off last night to support the Haven. Great turnout, music, and lot's tasty Chili.
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On Monday I attended the CD release party for Harper and Midwest Kind new CD, Rise Up, at the Bohm Theater in Albion, MI.
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After years of shooting Canon, in 2019 I switched to a lighter mirrorless Fujifilm camera. It’s been one of the best decisions I've ever made.
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Laith 2016 Voice finalist played to a sold-out show at the Franke Center for the Arts. I've followed Laith and seen him and his three-piece band many times.
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As the temperature warmed up I decided to go to my favorite local birding site, the Kellogg Bird Sanctuary.
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Living at the lake we get to see the sunset almost every night. It's something I never get tired of watching. It changes every evening, from each hour to just minutes.
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If you've followed my blog in the past you know Sandhill Cranes are one of my favorite birds. I wonder why do they migrate back so early?
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I got up on Sunday and to my surprise it was sunny. I looked online and the weather channel forecasted it to stay that way until early afternoon.
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I woke up early Monday morning to the first blast of winter. November 11th! Come on, it's too early for this type of weather! Oh, it is Michigan.
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I've always enjoyed visiting the Kellogg Bird Sanctuary, especially in the fall. The forecast was cool and sunny so I had some breakfast and headed out to the sanctuary.
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I went to the Franke Center for the Arts in Marshall to see blues legend Jimmy Thackery. Guitarist, Thackery has been a driving force in blues for over 45 years.
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