Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/04

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Cinnamon Teal
From: afirkin at afirkin.com (Alastair Firkin)
Date: Sun Jan 4 18:55:47 2009
 
First one I thought great and second one I thought MAGICAL. Love the water. 
He/she seems quite at home with you.

Cheers

Alastair

--- wildlightphoto@earthlink.net wrote:

From: wildlightphoto@earthlink.net
To: "lug@leica-users.org" <lug@leica-users.org>, LEG <leica@freelists.org>,  
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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Cinnamon Teal
Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 18:35:46 -0800 (GMT-08:00)

I visited the American River fish hatchery today where a male Cinnamon Teal 
seems to have settled for the winter on one of the hatchery's settling 
ponds.  I sat quietly for a few hours to let him get comfortable with me at 
close range:

http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/anatidae/cite00.html
http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/anatidae/cite01.html

Technical stuff:

Camera:  Leica R8 with DMR digital back
Lens:    Leitz (Leica) 560mm f/6.8 Telyt-R
Support: Shoulder stock & monopod

All comments welcome.

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



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