I have racoons and skunks i would LOVE to get rid of. Were di you say you lived.:-)
Dave On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 4:26 PM, D. Glenn Arthur Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I finally felt well enough to use the borrowed extension ladder > to get up on the roof and look at what the roofers had done. > Then I got sufficiently distracted shooting birds and helicopters > that I forgot to take pictures of where the roof is sagging. > Oops. > > More stuff I've learned about shooting birds: > > If they're moving downwind and are faster than a pigeon, fuggedaboudit. > > There's a nest inside my chimney (about five feet down, I think). > > Lying on my back does help for tracking them across the sky, but > makes seeing what direction they'll be coming from harder. (This > shouldn't be as much of a problem when I try to shoot the sentry > bat next month. In past years, it has established a pretty stable > route and held to it flight after flight, night after night. But > it'll be a factor if I try to shoot feeding bats.) > > That cardinal is bloody fast, and sneaky. But I might have a > start on figuring out the robin's pattern. > > If I have to think about it, the bird is already out of the frame. > > Raptors are convenient. They just hang there in a thermal, > waiting for me to shoot. > > I don't think I'm ever gonna get that damned dragonfly. Yes, > I know that's not a bird, bat, or helicopter; it did zip past > me at a womdigious speed a few times. > > > At one point I had the 100-300 zoom on, 'cause, well, I was > planning to shoot birds with it ... and two sparrows decided > to loop around my ankles. That lens doesn't focus that close. > The rest of the afternoon the sparrows stayed too far away to > shoot at all. I tell you, they're doin' it to me on purpose ... > > Earlier, I watched a small black bird launch itself into a > headwind and get stuck. It stayed stuck in place in midair > long enough for me to get a long lens up and pointed in the > right direction, but not long enough for me to focus after > that. (But it was a really cute sight.) > > > The weather was working against me on the medevac helipad. The > air doesn't look as hazy as it did last week, but I still got > a lot of fog in the frames where I tried to shoot it, about a > mile away (uh, 1.2 miles, I think, but I can check it with my > odometer the next time I go downtown). The same shot just after > dusk with the camera not braced as well a couple days ago was > clearer. (This afternoon I rested the camera on the chimney; a > couple nights ago I was leaning out a window.) I have to check > again after I copy the photos onto my computer, but looking at > the LCD there didn't seem to be much difference in fogging > between the lens I don't have a UV filter for and the lens that > had a UV filter on it, so I think it's just summer humidity. > OTOH, the police helicopter came near enough for me to get the > best shot of it I've managed yet. > > -- Glenn > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- Equine Photography www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ Ontario Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
