Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/11/13

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Red-tailed Hawk
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 23:11:26 +0100
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So this was the shot that was almost screwed up? I am driving down to the 
beach and throwing my cameras in the sea tomorrow morning.

Cheers,
Nathan

Nathan Wajsman
Alicante, Spain
http://www.frozenlight.eu
http://www.greatpix.eu
PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/


YNWA




On Nov 12, 2012, at 3:04 PM, Doug Herr wrote:

> Yesterday while photographing Snow Geese an immature Red-tailed Hawk 
> landed on a sign post no more than 25' from the car.  Trying not to think 
> about whether I had packed any spare underwear I made a few grab shots 
> then while changing to something shorter than 560mm a doofus pulled his 
> car up and flushed the hawk.  He then pulled alongside my car and told me 
> how he'd gotten a great action shot of the hawk (as it was fleeing), then 
> then next words out of his mouth were "what are you shooting with?"
> 
> This was one of the very few times I wished I had been shooting with 
> something non-photographic, but for some reason I restrained myself and 
> responded "a camera".  I forgot to add "dammit".  Him: "A 1D4?"
> 
> My question: why do the biggest jerks have big white lenses?
> 
> Oh yeah, my photo:
> 
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/accipitridae/rthawk13.html
> 
> technical stuff: R8/DMR, 280mm f/4 APO-Telyt-R+2x APO-Extender-R, shoulder 
> stock.  All comments welcome.
> 
> Doug Herr
> Birdman of Sacramento
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com
> 
> 
> 
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