Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/03/07
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--- Afterswift@aol.com wrote:
>
> In a message dated 3/6/06 11:10:46 PM,
> lug-request@leica-users.org writes:
>
>
> > Try photographing a Great Horned Owl near its nest
> then try telling me that
> > photographing birds is without hazards!? British
> wildlife photographer Eric
> > Hosking lost an eye to a closely related owl.
> >
>
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> Most photographers I know shoot owls with a 400mm
> lens. When they get 'close'
> they use a 200mm lens. If Hosking wants to make an
> omelet he should buy eggs
> in a store. Birds evolved from mean flying
> dinosaurs. But, then, so did
> chickens, which explains why I'm a vegetarian.
Yeah, but "most photographers" aren't in the same
league as the late, great Eric Hosking, that's for
sure.
Nick
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