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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Brown Creeper
From: grduprey at mchsi.com (grduprey@mchsi.com)
Date: Wed Apr 9 12:35:15 2008

Doug,

Very nice shot and nothing to complain about from my point of view.  Nice 
work.

Gene

-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: wildlightphoto@earthlink.net
>
> Last weekend's family activities left little time for my usual sort of 
> photography but I did find in a forested park for an hour or so, where I 
> photographed a Brown Creeper:
> 
> http://wildlightphoto.com/birds/certhiidae/brcr00.html
> 
> Technically this is not one of my best, I'm posting this photo because I'm 
> excited that I got ANY picture of the bird.  The Brown Creeper is a tiny 
> perpetual motion organism: starting at the bottom of a tree it spirals up 
> the 
> tree at full speed while searching crevices for insect snacks; reaching 
> the 
> upper parts of the tree, the creeper then drops to another tree to repeat 
> the 
> process.  Lighting in the forest is dim, the spiral climb puts the bird 
> out of 
> range in a matter of seconds,  and there's really no telling which tree 
> the bird 
> will drop to next.  Most photos were deleted due to subject motion.
> 
> technical stuff: R8/DMR, 560mm f/6.8, ISO 800, 1/180 sec @ f/6.8
> 
> All comments welcome.
> 
> Doug Herr
> Birdman of Sacramento
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com
> 
> 
> 
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