Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/11/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yesterday while photographing Snow Geese an immature Red-tailed Hawk landed on a sign post no more than 25' from the car. Trying not to think about whether I had packed any spare underwear I made a few grab shots then while changing to something shorter than 560mm a doofus pulled his car up and flushed the hawk. He then pulled alongside my car and told me how he'd gotten a great action shot of the hawk (as it was fleeing), then then next words out of his mouth were "what are you shooting with?" This was one of the very few times I wished I had been shooting with something non-photographic, but for some reason I restrained myself and responded "a camera". I forgot to add "dammit". Him: "A 1D4?" My question: why do the biggest jerks have big white lenses? Oh yeah, my photo: http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/accipitridae/rthawk13.html technical stuff: R8/DMR, 280mm f/4 APO-Telyt-R+2x APO-Extender-R, shoulder stock. All comments welcome. Doug Herr Birdman of Sacramento http://www.wildlightphoto.com