Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/05

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Subject: [Leica] Mr and Mrs Wren - at last
From: rdandcb at home.netspeed.com.au (rdandcb)
Date: Thu Oct 5 17:08:45 2006
 
Last Monday was a public holiday and I spent most of it sitting on a  
rock next to a bigger rock that has a small recess that holds water.   
My puddle rock.  For three years I have been trying to get a picture  
of a male blue wren at this site and it all came together about four  
hours into that session.  These are highly mobile birds, staying  
still for only fractions of a second.  The males, when they come for  
a dip, are in and out in a flash.  The females of course spend far  
more time in the bathroom - a couple of seconds at least.  So, I'm  
rather happy with this one.  R8, APO-Telyt-R f5.6/560mm, Velvia 100,  
f8 and 1/125th in manual mode, manual flash pre-metered using F mode.

http://home.netspeed.com.au/rdcb37/mrandmrswren.jpg

Some other puddle-rock shots are here

http://gallery.leica-users.org/Nature
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