Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/07/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]To me of all of natures critters Owls are by far the most mysterious and interesting. They really seem to be aliens and/or from a different time warp. These pix really makes me really feel like I'm in their presence more then any I've ever seen or search engined.. Which happened once or twice. It was just as if a flying saucer landed and a being jumped out and said "Hi Mark! Keep up the good work". I felt transported for the rest of the day. Here in NY they have fake owls perched various places. I guess they scare the birds away. One is in Verdi Square across from the Ansonia. Mark William Rabiner > From: Montie Talbert <montoid at earthlink.net> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2011 09:47:18 -0400 (GMT-04:00) > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Short-eared Owl > > A successful days shoot indeed, you should give your boss a signed print! > ;-) > > Montie > > >>> I recently visited Plumas County California where several Short-eared >>> Owls >>> had been reported. I ditched work on Friday (with boss's permission) and >>> left early on Thursday to catch the owls in evening light: > > > The owls were perched on roadside fence posts when I arrived. Traffic on > the > road was very light, perhaps one vehicle every half hour, so I stopped the > truck in the wrong-way lane and made some photos out the driver's side > window. > The locals are used to this sort of thing, even the highway patrol passed > by > without a word. > > http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/strigidae/seowl00.html > http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/strigidae/seowl01.html > > Owls need a warmup before a night of hunting: > > http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/strigidae/seowl02.html > http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/strigidae/seowl03.html > http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/strigidae/seowl04.html > > Once the sun dips below the horizon the hunt is on: > > http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/strigidae/seowl05.html > http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/strigidae/seowl06.html > > I caught up with the owl the following morning is the fog: > > http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/strigidae/seowl07.html > http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/strigidae/seowl08.html > > Once the fog burned off the owl dropped to the cover of a weedy roadside > ditch. The message I got here was "hey, napping going on here, enough with > the clicking!" > > http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/strigidae/seowl09.html > > All photos: R8/DMR, 280mm f/4 APO. Most with 1.4x APO-Extender-R, shoulder > stock & monopod. Last photo without extender, with tripod. All comments > welcome. > > Doug Herr > Birdman of Sacramento > http://www.wildlightphoto.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information