The MindShift BackLight 18L is a perfect backpack for a photographer who carries camera gear and wants to carry other gear, too. Many packs don’t consider that we may want more than just camera gear, but ThinkTank & MindShift did with this pack. It’s a comfortable, great looking, and really well-designed pack!

The Timbuk2 Flight Messenger bag has become a regular part of all of my birding hikes. It holds and organizes the smaller essentials. It also carries binoculars, water, small camera accessories, and a small camera. It is comfortable on multi-mile hikes and allows quick access to items without having to remove my camera.

The ThinkTank Airport Advantage is a well designed minimalist rolling camera bag, and perfect for hauling through airports and tossing (carefully) in car trunks. This is a gear hauler, for when a lot of gear is needed, and it hauls that gear safely.

The San Diego Bird Festival is an annual birding party hosted by the San Diego Audubon. They offer lots of field trips, workshops, pelagic bout tours, and an optics expo!

Selling camera gear has never been easier - use an instant online quote system or even schedule an online video chat with an expert - KEH Camera makes it so easy to get some quick cash, or to get value towards upgraded gear! Check them out today and see what you can get for that gear that is sitting around collecting dust!

The Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve is a coastal estuary that covers around 1,300 acres. It features many scenes and habitats for all kinds of wildlife, including open water, mudflats, salt marsh, coastal dunes, seabird nesting islands, riparian, and freshwater marsh.

Some of the things we've learned from shooting film!