a character from Dr Suess. Is he a lorax, a thwopheaded treeeater, what?
I'm very jealous of your crystal closeups of birds. Are you lying in wait for hours with mosquitoes on you? Or is your telephoto just really nice and you're cropping?
These shots aren't cropped. The last two bird shots are from a section of the "St. Augustine Zoological Park" in Florida. They're native Flordia birds that colonized an alligator exhibit. It's a big open area with the alligators swimming around in a lake and bridges going over it for people to walk on. The alligators keep the raccoons and other egg-eaters out .. and the humans from getting close to nests. This is probably why the birds keep returning each year to nest.
These birds let people get closer than they otherwise might and, most importantly, they're all right there. I shot all of these with Canon's 70-200mm f/4.0L which is effectively 320mm on the 10D because of the APS-sized sensor. This shot was at about 20 feet, f/8.0, 1/180, and handheld.
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Date: 2004-08-14 11:21 pm (UTC)this bird looks like
Date: 2004-08-15 08:22 am (UTC)I'm very jealous of your crystal closeups of birds. Are you lying in wait for hours with mosquitoes on you? Or is your telephoto just really nice and you're cropping?
Re: this bird looks like
Date: 2004-08-15 11:15 am (UTC)These birds let people get closer than they otherwise might and, most importantly, they're all right there. I shot all of these with Canon's 70-200mm f/4.0L which is effectively 320mm on the 10D because of the APS-sized sensor. This shot was at about 20 feet, f/8.0, 1/180, and handheld.
Re: this bird looks like
Date: 2004-08-15 11:17 am (UTC)I also took shots of the gators, but they all look like movie set monsters.