Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Did you intend for them to be so dark? If so, nice pictures.... Tom Finnegan wrote: > This week's Leica adventure does not invole either biking or mountain > climbing, which is probably a good thing since my knees still haven't fully > recovered. Nor does it involve, to the disappoint of many I'm sure, the > photographing of brick walls, newspapers, or resolution charts. > > My parents own a beach cabin on an island in the south Puget Sound. The last > few times I've been down there I've noticed a few Great Blue Heron that > appeared to be nesting in the area. Herons are pretty common along the > shores of the Sound, and in general tend to be rather wary of people. The > birds near my parent's cabin, however, seemed rather tolerant of people > approching rather close. I've never had a long lense with me though when > I've gotten close to the birds, so this time I packed along the 400/6.8 and > 560/6.8 Telyts. I don't have alot of experience with these lenses, so do't > expect Doug Herr quality, but here's a sample of the pictures I took. > > http://www.photo.net/photodb/folder.tcl?folder_id=51506 > > best of light, > Tom Finnegan > Seattle