Very nice captures, Larry! While I agree with your choice of the head shot as the best image, many of the others that show the bird in its environment are actually more interesting (and also well done).
"a great blue heron, something I don’t see many of in my backyard. " I love the humor in that understatement. Most of us, of course, have a river in our backyards (although I did have a herd of 5 white tail deer in my front yard this morning). Dan Matyola *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery <https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery>* On Sun, Feb 7, 2021 at 4:25 AM Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: > > > https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/50917788191/in/album-72157718192076946/ > > I was in my backyard and noticed a pair of mallards, while I was trying to > photograph them, they decided they didn’t want my attention and floated a > bit downstream where there was cover from brush on the river bank. I > tried to photograph them from a spot downstream and noticed something that > didn’t quite look like a duck. I pointed the bigma at it and it turned out > to be a great blue heron, something I don’t see many of in my backyard. I > worked my way down, taking pictures on the way, and long story short ended > up about 25 feet upstream of it. We ended up spending so much time that > even I ran out of photos to take of it and just spent some time chilling by > the edge of the river, it seemed like an hour, but looking at the > timestamps, it was only about 15 minutes like that, thought I did spend > almost an hour all told between the ducks, the heron, and a few photos of > water over the rocks. > > Full set for those that are interested, I’m pretty happy with the results: > https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/albums/72157718192076946 > > And if anyone likes that sort of thing, here’s one of the photos of water > running over rocks: > > https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/50916965998/in/album-72157718194305658/ > > Everything shot with the bigma on the K-3 II. > > -- > Larry Colen > l...@red4est.com > > > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
