The Best Pigeon Camera – The one that’s with you
There is a saying in the photo world: “The best camera is the one that’s with you.”
I’m a firm believer in that. And thankfully, cell phone cameras, like the one in my iPhone4, have only gotten better and better. I rarely carry my big cameras to the loft with me, but when I see something worth taking a photo or video of while I’m out there, I can count on my cell phone to do the job for me most of the time.
People frequently ask me what kind of gear I use. I’ll admit, it does take a bit of specialized equipment to take photos like those capturing the birds in flight like these. Of course, motor drives and long lenses help with photos of the birds as they fly around the loft.
But when it comes down to it, I only have one favorite camera: The one I have on me at the time I need it.
Enjoy these examples of photos taken with my phone.
Yet another trophy
Tory apparently never gets tired of winning trophies. Especially when her daddy doesn’t have any. Last night at the Bluegrass Racing Pigeon Club meeting, she was awarded her first place diploma and her first place junior champion trophy. I think she was excited.
Her wins came from a rather large white grizzle we call “The Turkey”. Tory has won ump-teen trophies and medals all from her bird “Speckles”, who is the sire of “The Turkey”. Speckles also bred Tory’s best performing bird (12th place avg. speed) in last year’s LRPC One-Loft Futurity.
Congrats young-un!
Lex Racing Pigeon Club
These are photos – some new, some old – from various meetings and shipping nights at the Lexington Racing Pigeon Club. Some of our members have unfortunately passed on. Their friendship and guidance will be missed.
Speck-Man bursts into Science Fair Scene
Tory Stephenson, with the help of her pigeon “Speckles” aka “Speck-Man”, won the overall medallion in her school’s fourth grade science fair with her project titled “Flight Time.” For her project, Tory wanted to determine if weather conditions played a factor in the amount of time it took one of her birds to get home from a 17-mile release. She advanced to District competition and won 1st Place and then 2nd Place at Regionals!
From her project:
From the results of my experiment, I learned that it appears temperatures between 24 degrees and 68 degrees do not have an effect on the birds. There wasn’t much precipitation during our experiment so we can’t tell if it affects the birds. Our data suggests that when the wind is coming from the south (tail winds) the birds would come home faster than when the wind is coming from the north (head wind). The air pressure between 29.85 and 30.26 didn’t seem to effect the pigeons. Extreme weather conditions quite possibly would effect the pigeons but we didn’t experience any extreme conditions. The birds flew a route home from the same release point every time. They may have learned the route home to become faster.
