Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/02/07

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Subject: [Leica] Painted Stork
From: kcarney1 at cox.net (Ken Carney)
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2011 18:09:00 -0600
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On 2/6/2011 11:26 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote:
> I had been to Vedanthangal, a bird sanctuary close to Chennai, last 
> Saturday
> (5th Feb) for a second visit this year. Luckily, the place was empty, and I
> could practice my panning and capturing birds in flight, techniques I need
> solid practice in, to my hearts content. Some Painted Stork action:
>
> In Flight with environment:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Vedbirds/Vedanthangal_20110205_0162-Edit.jpg.html
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Vedbirds/Vedanthangal_20110205_0004-Edit.jpg.html
>
> Carrying nesting material:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Vedbirds/Vedanthangal_20110205_0095-Edit.jpg.html
>
> Dogfight:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Vedbirds/Vedanthangal_20110205_0114-Edit.jpg.html
>
> Landing:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Vedbirds/Vedanthangal_20110205_0145-Edit.jpg.html
>
> By dusk, the water became still, and you get decent shadows:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Vedbirds/Vedanthangal_20110205_0222-Edit-2BW.jpg.html
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Vedbirds/Vedanthangal_20110205_0224-Edit.jpg.html
>
> C&C, as ever, welcome.
>
> Cheers
> Jayanand
>
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These are excellent - my favorites are the nesting material and the 
dogfight.  I still think it's amazing that we can get images like this 
at high ISO's - it wasn't that long ago I was shooting sheet film at 25, 
and that was b&w.

Ken


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