Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/04/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Awesome creatures! All your photos are great, but my favourites are the first and last. Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/> http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws <http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ <http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/> Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator <http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator> YNWA > On 9 Apr 2019, at 19:47, Howard Cummer <cummer at netvigator.com> wrote: > > Actually they never went away but in the winter storms the deck of the > landing dock at Otter Bay was undermined. Until repairs were recently done > we couldn?t get out on the deck to see or feed the eagles.They have waited > patiently for us to return and now that we have their cafeteria is again > open. > > I took 607 pictures in about an hour and the birds put on a spectacular > show - chasing the seagulls away from ?their? food.All taken with the > Nikon D500 and Nikon 300mm F4.0 PF. > In my experience the best combo for birds in flight on the market today!! > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/2019/Canada/Eagles/DSC_6165C.jpg.html > > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/2019/Canada/Eagles/DSC_6165C.jpg.html> > > The eagle trailing its wing in the water. I love how they do this - their > flight computer gauging the effect of wing in water effortlessly. > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/2019/Canada/Eagles/DDSC_5963.jpg.html > > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/2019/Canada/Eagles/DDSC_5963.jpg.html> > > Coming in to land on the dock. It was a cloudy dull day and the light was > just right for no blown out highlights. > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/2019/Canada/Eagles/DSC_6415c.jpg.html > > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/2019/Canada/Eagles/DSC_6415c.jpg.html> > > Rounding on the hungry gulls. > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/2019/Canada/Eagles/DSC_6420C.jpg.html > > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/2019/Canada/Eagles/DSC_6420C.jpg.html> > > Again after the gulls. > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/2019/Canada/Eagles/Landingclawsout.jpg.html > > <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/2019/Canada/Eagles/Landingclawsout.jpg.html> > > and coming into land one more time. > > I like the 300mmPF for this work as it allows for more space around the > bird - easier to follow - and with enough pixels in the D500 > to crop a bit if necessary. My 200 - 500 VR zoom at 500 is too hard to > frame and follow a busy bird. And there is never enough time > to adjust the zoom focal length in the heat of battle. > > Please view large if you like. C&C always welcome, of course. > > Howard > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information