Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]True, but they get seriously chased by a local Goshawk every now and then. Makes my waiting a little more interesting. Rick. On 06/10/2006, at 11:01 AM, Walt Johnson wrote: > Beautiful color. Sometimes I really envy birds, they never watch TV > news. > > 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 >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information