Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/01/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> Folks - > > Well... seeing as how I ended up with no film in Panama I was left with no > other option than to tag along with My Wife the Birder and shoot a lotta > birds.. > > So, it was Telyt & Tilley hat for me, with 6 days split between the Canopy > Tower outside of Gamboa & the Canopy Lodge in El Valle. ( Both places, by > the way, are All Leica facilities, with the guides sporting nothing but > Red Dots all over their binos & scopes.) Every day we'd get up before > dawn and go out with a guide, tramp around 'till noon, eat lunch, then go > out again 'till sunset. > > After hacking away for a bit since we got back to the states I finally had > to admit that I really have no skills with which to edit images in > Lightroom, so I just cropped most of the shots into squares and threw up > the roughs. A somewhat mixed bag (yeah, I know..."you are what you post" > etc.) but I did what I could with the birds at hand: > > http://www.pbase.com/bobsworld/panama > > Actually, my favorite shot of the trip is the last one, of The Humans, > with my pocket camera. Also, the shot of the Great Potoo is one of those > point-the-point-&-shoot-through-the-scope-eyepiece kindof things. > Everything else was shot with the 400 Telyt. > > Comments, corrections on bird ID's, etc. are welcome. > > Bob Palmieri Well I think it looks like a very impressive collection. Cheers looks warmer than Chicago Alastair