Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/03/26

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Painted Bunting
From: wildlightphoto at earthlink.net (Doug Herr)
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 14:21:44 -0700 (GMT-07:00)

Peter Klein wrote:

>This is not a great photo technically, but the subject is both rare and 
>beautiful, so I'm showing it anyway.
><http://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563 at N04/13431824745/>

Also not a great photo technically (very poor scan):

http://wildlightphoto.com/pll/pabunt_m.jpg

(Leicaflex SL, 400mm f/6.8 Telyt, K64)

When I lived in the Everglades in the early 1980s this Painted Bunting 
appeared at this bush every morning at 9 AM.  People waited for it and when 
it appered they said their ooohs and aahhhs and after a few minutes the bird 
went back into the bush.

Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com