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This photo album, which is split into THREE PAGES, is the result of my 2008 trip through seven states in the Mid-Atlantic region of the U.S. My original blog from that trip presented only a handful of the photos that I took on that three-week trip (since I was posting blog entries each night from my hotel room). It has taken me almost two years (20 months) to find the time to post-process all of the photos that I took on that trip. (Though I took another warbler photography trip in the spring of 2009, I've still not even begun to process those photos, so don't even ask!) On the 2008 trip I took a total of 5779 photos (not counting those I deleted in-camera while in the field, which probably amounts to no more than 100 or so). On average, I took 250 photos per day, though on some days I took as many as 900 to 1000. Post-processing of these photos took about a month of solid after-work effort (i.e., in the evenings and on weekends), using Adobe Photoshop CS3. The original ~6000 photos were painstakingly winnowed down to the best 291 images shown on these pages—i.e., a mere 5% "keeper" rate. Field equipment included: Canon EOS 1D Mark III cameras (2), Canon 400mm f/4 DO lens, Canon 600mm f/4L lens, Canon 580EX II flash, Better Beamer flash extender, and Canon 1.4x TC II teleconverter. The majority of warbler photos were taken hand-held at 400mm on the boardwalk at Magee Marsh / Crane Creek State Park in Ohio. Images were post-processed on a (first-generation) Macbook Pro, so they will look poor on a Microsoft Windows machine unless you select the proper gamma version here. Much more information about equipment and techniques for photographing birds can be found in my free online book.

Baltimore oriole	blackburnian warbler	black-throated green warbler	magnolia warbler
summer tanager	Connecticut warbler	magnolia warbler	Wilson's warbler
whippoorwill	scarlet tanager	bald eagle	northern parula
Canada warbler	black-throated green warbler	chestnut-sided warbler	Nashville warbler
blackburnian warbler	Cape May warbler	prothonotary warbler	magnolia warbler
Acadian flycatcher	blue-headed vireo	red-winged blackbird	red-eyed vireo
magnolia warbler	chestnut-sided warbler	bald eagle	magnolia warbler
black-throated green warbler	northern parula	American redstart	black-throated green warbler
American redstart	Philadelphia vireo	black-throated green warbler	thrush
palm warbler	house wren	black-and-white warbler (composite)	black-throated green warbler
blue-headed warbler	Acadian flycatcher	black-throated green warbler	Nashville warbler
palm warbler	black-capped chickadee	black-throated green warbler	chestnut-sided warbler
Cape May warbler	black-and-white warbler	chestnut-sided warbler	black-throated green warbler
blackburnian warbler	black-and-white warbler	black-throated green warbler	chestnut-sided warbler
Cape May warbler	prothonotary warbler	black-throated green warbler	black-and-white warbler
palm warbler	chestnut-sided warbler	summer tanager	black-throated green warbler
American warbler	Acadian flycatcher	black-throated green warbler	palm warbler
chestnut-sided warbler	Cape May warbler	black-throated green warbler	chestnut-sided warbler
black-throated green warbler

Mid-Atlantic Tour 2008!