Just released: My bird book

[Phil Harvey]

In case anyone cares about what I do in my spare time other than just working on ExifTool, I've just finished a photo book about birds.  This represents a lot of leg work trying to get pictures of as many species of birds as I could in my area.  There are more than 300 pictures in the book representing 216 different species, distilled down from more than 60,000 bird pictures that I have taken in the last 2 years,.

- Phil



Edit: Updated link to latest book revision.

[StarGeek]

Very cool.  Looks great flipping through the previews.

[philbond87]

Phil – I love it!
I love birds, love photography... and love seeing the fruits someone's passion.
This is clearly the result of a lot of work. How long did it take to amass all of these images?

Cheers,
Phil

[Phil Harvey]

Hi Phil,

This book is from nearly 2 years of field work, and more than 60,000 images taken in that time.  I'm quite proud of the number of species I've been able to photograph in our area in that time (213).  To give this perspective, the best birder in our area reported 222 species last year, and some of those were heard only.  Also, some would have been scoped, and out of range of my 500mm lens.

- Phil

[blue-j]

Just bought it for my brother. The photography looks top notch!  Congrats!  I'll buy my house a copy soon.

So I have to ask... what metadata schema do you use to organize your bird photos?  Darwin Core good for that?

-J

[Phil Harvey]

Thanks!!

Actually, for bird pictures I'm using the eBird database to keep track of my sightings.  My own picture inventory is organized by date and maintained by iCat, so once I get the sighting date from eBird I know where to find the rest of my pictures of that bird.  If I want, I can download my eBird database in CSV format, but I've been able to do what I want so far using the eBird web features.

- Phil