Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/11/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I know the feeling!! It's like: "Daddy, why are all those men throwing cameras in the water? Do they think it's a wishing well?" "No, sweetie, they just saw one of Doug Herr's photographs, and found out it was one of his 'bad' ones." Sent from my Verizon Wireless Phone ----- Reply message ----- From: "Nathan Wajsman" <photo at frozenlight.eu> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> Subject: [Leica] IMG: Red-tailed Hawk Date: Tue, Nov 13, 2012 2:11 pm So this was the shot that was almost screwed up? I am driving down to the beach and throwing my cameras in the sea tomorrow morning. Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ YNWA On Nov 12, 2012, at 3:04 PM, Doug Herr wrote: > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information