The Story of the Great Rebel Sandhill Crane Shoot


As told by Tom Duggan

 

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c15 'Allo....welcome to da Great Sandhill Crane Shoot, sponsored by Tide detergent.

I'm your host Tom D, and for the next 48-72 hours, I'll be annoying you with really weak witticisms.....on with the show...
IMG_7918 BIRDIES!!!!!
IMG_3939 I see one!  Wait...you said there were going to be more!  ARG!
IMG_3952 Observing deck looking out into the crane field....Hey!  Aren't y'all supposed to be at work?!?!?!
IMG_3953 Tom D scopes his target......
IMG_3954 FIRE!!!!!!
IMG_4008 Dummy...he shot its toe.....
IMG_4009 You smile now!
IMG_4010 I see you!!!!!!
IMG_4117 Photography for people without a sense of direction.....
IMG_7032 I'm pretty sure that's Marlin Perkins grave stone out there....
IMG_7033 Dualing 400's.....
IMG_7091 You are girly men with your 400's.....Come, let me click you up!
IMG_7507 Little does Terry know that Seff and I dashed off to an adult entertainment establishment while he was still trying to figure out the mating rituals of the cranes....
IMG_7185 Notice how I can block the wind with my hand and still look at cranes simultaneously!
IMG_7217 Girly-man....THFFFPT!!!!
IMG_7218 Hi! How are ya! Good to see ya!  I'm here all week!  Images available at the front desk!
IMG_7330 I still can't believe he called me a girly-man....hell, I used to do Marlboro ads!!!!!
IMG_7414 Girly-man my butt.....this shot's making the front cover of Sandhill Singles!
IMG_7503 Hmmm...maybe if I stretch this a little more, I can get 600mm out of it.....
IMG_7619 IT WORKED!
IMG_7697 I feel so inadequate......
IMG_7917 You?  I feel Irish!
IMG_7963 Joe Lasker....Nature Photographer.....and Male Escort.....
IMG_7979 A 500mm with a 1.4x teleconverter is NOT a good portrait lens.....
IMG_8009 I grew the beard just for this shot......
IMG_8028 Scott's lens is THIS big.....
MG_4047-1 How'd that parrot get in my shot????
MG_4054-1 What do you mean they're all leaving???
MG_4056-1 That crane just ate that cow.......
MG_4057-1 I'm Irish....just let me play with it a little while longer...Please?!? Please?!?! Please?!?!
MG_4060-1 Nope...I'm not talking to you ever again...never ever ever ever....nyeh
MG_4105-1 Where'd they go?!?!?
MG_4108-1 Ok...we kissed and made up.....
IMG_8029 Heh...wait till they get a load of this....
IMG_8030 See??  I told Sprengel we didn't manipulate that image!!!!
IMG_8078 I have conquered cranes.....gimme the moon!
MG_3958-1 Enough cranes!  Onto chillier climates!...Whoa!  You see the legs on her?!?!?!?
IMG_4235 The FBI's most laughed at......
IMG_0735 My brother has GOT to stop drinking those Starbucks double-shot cappucinos before taking pictures......
IMG_4202 Tom D ignoring yet another sign.....
MG_4131-3 Um.........Tom?
MG_4135-1 Wow......hat and all.....
IMG_8094 And then this really big thing came up to Tom...and then...and then...
IMG_8104 You think I could get his tripod??
IMG_8100 Cool.....got it.....this is either going to
IMG_8101 Smile for Sharky!
MG_4122-1 HAH!  He missed me!
IMG_4204 You don't learn, do you???
MG_4133-1 Nyet.....
IMG_8108 Cover for the next
IMG_8114 No guys....GQ is not looking for
IMG_8117 We are two wild and crazy guys!!!!!  Bring on da foxes!!!!
IMG_8119 I'd walk a mile for a Canon.....
IMG_8126 I can barely make out what that says....
IMG_8132 I got a seagull...you didn't!!! Nyeh! Nyeh!
IMG_8135 Whatever happens in Indiana, stays in Indiana......
IMG_4236 Yes! Yes! Yes! It IS Nessie!!!!!!
IMG_8170 Heh...he fell for it.....
IMG_8179 For those about to be tossed off the back end of a moving pickup, we salute you!
IMG_8183 Looke ma!  I can count......ONE!
IMG_8184 TWO!
IMG_8185 THREE!!!!!!
IMG_8193 TWO!!!!  Uh....anyone see where Joe went????
IMG_8229 You see how Joe just kept bouncing down the road?
IMG_4246 I have you now you varmint....
IMG_4249 OH MAN!  Who pooted????
IMG_8177 Ok....Take Two......
IMG_8231 Dang it!  He did it again!!!!!
IMG_8263 This is art......
IMG_8280 How'd this big ball of ear wax get here???????
IMG_8295 Stand real still and maybe Tom won't see us.....
MG_4196-1 Oh!  Thiff iff THUCH a pwitty twee!!!!!
MG_4197-1 Doin' the......Big!!!......Fig!!....Newton!!!!!
MG_4210-1 Indiana......6 a.m........we sit in eerie silence waiting for the enemy to appear, weapons at the ready.....
IMG_8298 Is that a tank or a tractor???
IMG_8307 Work it, bitch!!!
IMG_8315 I am tall....I am Irish....I have no talent....I have nothing better to shoot.....
IMG_8326 10mm??.....20mm??....10mm??....20mm??.......GAGH!!!!!!!
IMG_8364 We are targeted....fire when ready!
IMG_8404 How does CJ do this?!!??!?!
CRW_4299-1 I said leave....our.....cameras......ALONE!!!!!
CRW_4302-1 Would this look good mounted on a wall??
IMG_8415 They're not letting us in!!!!
IMG_8414 Mommy!  I wanna see the elks!!!!!
IMG_8416 OPEN UP, DAMN IT!!!!!!
MG_4258-1 Awww.....yer so choot!!!!!
IMG_8424 Hey!  Back off my woman!!!!!
MG_4259-1 Oooh!  Women!!!!!
IMG_8471 C'mere you hot tagged wench!
IMG_8469 Don't mind them.....
CRW_4322-1 Who's the dood with the four legs??????
Son_of_Lens Don't ask me why....but I thought of this image.........
andrew_wyeth01 Coincidence??  I think not......
MG_4287-1 Until next time....hope you enjoyed the ride........I know I did......