Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/02/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Impressive! Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ YNWA On Feb 8, 2012, at 8:19 AM, Henning Wulff wrote: > Here is a picture of Mt. Baker from Boundary Bay, which is just south of > Vancouver, and... you guessed it, has the US/Canada border running through > it. > > The next 4 pictures are of birds I saw while on a walk out there today > with a longtime friend. > > Quite a few Arctic or Snowy Owls are there at present, as apparently the > lemming suppy is scant in the arctic. This is what I read, anyways. Also > there are lots of other birds, including the Harrier Hawk in the last two > pictures. There were 5 or 6 other kinds of raptors around which I either > wasn't interested in (bald eagles are easier to catch in other places) or > were totally uncooperative. > > There were many people on the dyke, so conditions weren't ideal, but it > was sunny and not too cold (about 10?C). > > Pictures were with the Panasonic GH2 and an Apo-Telyt 280/4 with 1.4x > apo-converter and slightly cropped. The lens came up at a very good price > so I don't think I'll lose out if it doesn't suit me. The only thing is my > tripod isn't quite up to it, so in spite of having too many tripods I'll > have to do some re-arranging. > > http://tinyurl.com/6tc3u6m > > Henning Wulff > henningw at archiphoto.com > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >