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Subject: [Leica] Mr and Mrs Wren - at last
From: walt at waltjohnson.com (Walt Johnson)
Date: Fri Oct 6 04:13:27 2006
References: <C872CB0C-1662-4FD2-A359-D199D7E6C0ED@home.netspeed.com.au> <4525AAE9.6010209@waltjohnson.com> <B57E71F5-AF3C-4221-86D9-13376962284E@home.netspeed.com.au>

Rick

doggone it,  I guess there just aren't any easy answers.

Walt

Rick Dykstra wrote:

> True, but they get seriously chased by a local Goshawk every now and  
> then.  Makes my waiting a little more interesting.
>
> Rick.
>
> On 06/10/2006, at 11:01 AM, Walt Johnson wrote:
>
>> Beautiful color. Sometimes I really envy birds, they never watch TV  
>> news.
>>
>> rdandcb wrote:
>>
>>> Last Monday was a public holiday and I spent most of it sitting on  
>>> a  rock next to a bigger rock that has a small recess that holds  
>>> water.   My puddle rock.  For three years I have been trying to  get 
>>> a picture  of a male blue wren at this site and it all came  
>>> together about four  hours into that session.  These are highly  
>>> mobile birds, staying  still for only fractions of a second.  The  
>>> males, when they come for  a dip, are in and out in a flash.  The  
>>> females of course spend far  more time in the bathroom - a couple  
>>> of seconds at least.  So, I'm  rather happy with this one.  R8,  
>>> APO-Telyt-R f5.6/560mm, Velvia 100,  f8 and 1/125th in manual  mode, 
>>> manual flash pre-metered using F mode.
>>>
>>> http://home.netspeed.com.au/rdcb37/mrandmrswren.jpg
>>>
>>> Some other puddle-rock shots are here
>>>
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/Nature
>>>
>>>
>>>
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In reply to: Message from rdandcb at home.netspeed.com.au (rdandcb) ([Leica] Mr and Mrs Wren - at last)
Message from walt at waltjohnson.com (Walt Johnson) ([Leica] Mr and Mrs Wren - at last)
Message from rdandcb at home.netspeed.com.au (Rick Dykstra) ([Leica] Mr and Mrs Wren - at last)