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Subject: Re: [Leica] Ted's advice pays off
From: Ted Grant <tedgrant@shaw.ca>
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 17:57:12 -0700
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Roy Zartarian showed a second effort look.
Subject: [Leica] Ted's advice pays off


> 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.html<<<

Yikes a student who paid attention!!!!! :-)

Thanks Roy glad I was of some help with this one. Nice second effort.

ted

















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