[Leica] DMR: first year (long)

[rtaylor at cfa.harvard.edu (Richard Taylor)]

Am still wild over that first one.  The others are all merely  
exceptional.  :-)

You're really putting that DMR to good use.

Regards,

Dick



On Apr 15, 2007, at 2:19 AM, Doug Herr wrote:

(snip)

> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/anatidae/cago01.html
>
> Canada Geese - R8/DMR, 280 f/4 APO + 1.4x APO-Extender-R
> One of my earliest DMR photos, and the one where I learned to  
> "chimp". I had been working close to the ground with the camera on  
> a tripod collapsed as low as it would go. I heard the geese coming  
> and saw that their probable flight path would give some good  
> backgrounds. No time to switch to shoulder stock or monopod so I  
> picked the whole rig up tripod and all to pan along with the birds.  
> Exposures made and geese gone, a silly grin came over my face as I  
> reviewed the new photos. I had learned to "chimp".

(snip)

> Doug Herr
> Birdman of Sacramento
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com
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