Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/04/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The second one, for sure--give much more of the full picture (no pun intended) ;-) Cheers, Nathan On 31 Mar 2014, at 18:44, H&E Cummer <cummer at netvigator.com> wrote: > Hello again Luggers, > Esther and I shared the jeep with Alastair and Helen when those disgusting > pictures of the vultures eating the zebra were made. > I am not going to post my set of gourmet dining pictures - Alastair's more > than adequately tell the story - but I am posting a couple of > pictures of the vultures coming in to land. The zebra feast was like a > busy airport with the birds lining up to land like big jets coming > into a major airport. One curiosity for me was the way the vultures > lowered their heads on final approach - like the old Concorde dipping > its nose as it came into land. > > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Tanza2014/LandVulturew.jpg.html> > > and closer to touch down - you can see the eating action on the zebra in > the right side of the picture. > > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Tanza2014/LndVult2w.jpg.html> > > This exercise was a bit of a test of the follow focus capabilities of the > XT 1 equipped with the 55 - 200 zoom. > It did pretty well but there was some wandering in and out of focus as I > tracked the birds down. Still, > when focus was hit - it was very sharp. > > Please look large - C& C always welcome > > Howard > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0 PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Image licensing: http://www.alamy.com/search-results.asp?qt=wajsman Blog: http://www.nathansmusings.eu/