Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/05

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Subject: [Leica] Mr and Mrs Wren - at last
From: ricc at mindspring.com (Ric Carter)
Date: Thu Oct 5 17:29:15 2006
References: <C872CB0C-1662-4FD2-A359-D199D7E6C0ED@home.netspeed.com.au> <4D58949E-4DE8-482D-A196-FBFD8FEA82F9@home.netspeed.com.au>

Way nice!

I know how frustrating little birds can be.

Boy, that looks nothing like our wrens here. Ours are all LBJs  
(little brown jobs) and hard to tell apart. Good reflexes!

Nice work.

Ric


On Oct 5, 2006, at 8:18 PM, Rick Dykstra wrote:

> Oh, and rdandcb = Rick Dykstra.  Caught out by my new email  
> setup.  :-)
>
> Rick.
>
> On 06/10/2006, at 10:08 AM, rdandcb wrote:
>
>> Last Monday was a public holiday and I spent most of it sitting on  
>> a rock next to a bigger rock that has a small recess that holds  
>> water.  My puddle rock.  For three years I have been trying to get  
>> a picture of a male blue wren at this site and it all came  
>> together about four hours into that session.  These are highly  
>> mobile birds, staying still for only fractions of a second.  The  
>> males, when they come for a dip, are in and out in a flash.  The  
>> females of course spend far more time in the bathroom - a couple  
>> of seconds at least.  So, I'm rather happy with this one.  R8, APO- 
>> Telyt-R f5.6/560mm, Velvia 100, f8 and 1/125th in manual mode,  
>> manual flash pre-metered using F mode.
>>
>> http://home.netspeed.com.au/rdcb37/mrandmrswren.jpg
>>
>> Some other puddle-rock shots are here
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/Nature
>>
>>
>>
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In reply to: Message from rdandcb at home.netspeed.com.au (rdandcb) ([Leica] Mr and Mrs Wren - at last)
Message from rdandcb at home.netspeed.com.au (Rick Dykstra) ([Leica] Mr and Mrs Wren - at last)