Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/01/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks Jayanand, yes, the D4 is pretty much perfect for action photography. Cheers, Gene ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jayanand Govindaraj" <jayanand at gmail.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2014 8:27:02 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central Subject: Re: [Leica] Trip to L&D14 last Sunday Gene, Lovely captures. The D4 is really the perfect tool for such action, especially birds in motion! Cheers Jayanand On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 9:27 AM, <grduprey at mchsi.com> wrote: > Last Sunday I was down on the Mississippi River, South of LeClaire, Iowa > to photograph the Bald Eagles and took this series of an Immature Bald > Eagle learning to fish. > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/GRDuprey/untitled-0828a.jpg.html > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/GRDuprey/untitled-0829a.jpg.html > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/GRDuprey/untitled-0830a.jpg.html > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/GRDuprey/untitled-0831a.jpg.html > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/GRDuprey/untitled-0832a.jpg.html > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/GRDuprey/untitled-0833a.jpg.html > > Here is a photo of the crowd on Sunday. Quite a large crowd, over 180 > photographers, for such a warm day, 38F, as the Eagles are not usually as > active on warm days. They were actually quite active and teh shooting was > very good in spite of the high temperature, but the river has a large fish > population right now and that may be why they were out in the numbers we > found on Sunday, about 150 birds. Lock & Dam 14 is one of the best Bald > Eagle sites in the Lower 48 to photograph these birds, as they fish fairly > close to the bank of the river in Iowa. > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/GRDuprey/untitled-1016756a.jpg.html > > Comments welcome, and please view large for best detail. > > Gene > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information