Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/05/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yesterday my wife excitedly called me to look out of the window. What I saw was a wild turkey perched on the roof of my car. I grabbed the first camera I could get my hands on to take a picture. It was my wife's Canon S500. Obviously the pictures don't have Leica like quality. The little obsolete Canon has a 5 mp sensor and a 3X zoom. The car was parked in the driveway about 100 feet from the window.The window glass was dirty. Wild turkeys are common in the woods near my house but they rarely perch on man made structures. This one looked big enough to make a nice Thanksgiving dinner. I recall that Ben Franklin wanted to make the wild turkey the national bird of the U.S.instead of the dirty, rapacious, thieving Bald Eagle. We have eagles around too but they don't sit on the roofs of cars. And given their diet, they probably don't taste too good. http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Turkey+2.JPG.html http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Turkey+1.JPG.html Larry Z