[Leica] IMG: Red-tailed Hawk

[richard at richardmanphoto.com (Richard Man)]

You can also send them to me!


On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 2:20 PM, jon.streeter <jon.streeter at cox.net> 
wrote:

> 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
>
> _______________________________________________
> Leica Users Group.
> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information
>



-- 
// richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>