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 (Rick Dykstra)
Date: Thu Oct 5 17:30:00 2006
References: <C872CB0C-1662-4FD2-A359-D199D7E6C0ED@home.netspeed.com.au> <4D58949E-4DE8-482D-A196-FBFD8FEA82F9@home.netspeed.com.au>

The Leica users gallery has changed.  New link

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

The 'v' is vewy important.

Rick.


On 06/10/2006, at 10:18 AM, Rick Dykstra wrote:

> Oh, and rdandcb = Rick Dykstra.  Caught out by my new email  
> setup.  :-)
>
> Rick.
>
> On 06/10/2006, at 10:08 AM, rdandcb wrote:
>
>> 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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