Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/12/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Dec 30, 2007, at 1:30 AM, Geoff wrote: > Bob, the owl shot is superb. I know that we shouldn't be > anthropomorphic, but I swear that owl is grumpy from being > disturbed, or > maybe he ate a bad mouse the night before. My Wife the Birder sez that you may be right. However, she also sez that this expression of boredom with the likes of us (which I just barely got standing on toetips with the 400 & shoulder stock) http://www.pbase.com/bobsworld/image/90962480 plus this more squashed-down body posture (back on the pod for the 1/8th second just-before-dusk exposure) http://www.pbase.com/bobsworld/image/90963600 apparently mean that this critter was pretty comfortable with our intrusion into its world. > On the compass points incident, I'm undecided if you are not in > fact digging yourself a hole by adroitly avoiding explaining that > one ;-) Such excavations are not unknown to me... Bob Palmieri