Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/29

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Subject: [Leica] Ted's advice pays off
From: Roy Zartarian <rzartarian@snet.net>
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 08:27:49 -0400

LUGs

One of the points Ted Grant makes in his Leica Seminars is to look 
behind you after taking a picture for another image might be waiting.

This suggestion worked for me a week ago after a fruitless early 
morning attempt to get some slides of a Green Heron in a marshy area of 
a local park.  The subject critter stayed in the shadows or behind some 
branches playing, no doubt, a waiting game with me.  So after about 
forty five minutes and 30 wasted frames, I packed up and began to walk 
away.  Then I turned around. On a bush behind my position in full 
sunlight was a second bird.

The tripod went up, the camera came out of the pack, and the bird 
cooperated.  Two of the results are at:
http://pecow.royzart.com/pecow12.thml


Roy


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