Re: [Leica] mourning dove (the url)

["\(SonC\) Sonny Carter" <sonc@sonc.com>]

Thanks, Ted.

 I was shooting with my 90mm Summicron R.  Mama Bird has allowed me to get
close enough to shoot her with that lens, about five feet away.  The picture
is with a crop of about 75% of the original.  She is right outside of my
kitchen table window, so she watches us and we watch her.

Stay tuned!

Sonny



- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Ted Grant" <tedgrant@shaw.ca>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 10:51 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] mourning dove (the url)


> Sonny Carter wrote & showed:
> >>> Oh yeah, if you really want to see the picture.....
> > http://www.sonc.com/mama_bird.htm<<<
>
> Hi Sonny,
> You've a nice shot here under difficult circumstances, first of all a
> nesting dove, one wrong move and she's probably long gone leaving her
> potential chicks to perish.
>
> The location to shoot isn't any Broadway stage either hidden under leaves
> but they're open enough by the look of it to still hold some a nice
colour.
>
> And you're going to stay with the mama till chicks are hatched and
fluffing
> wings? Good on you as that becomes a tough challenge as simply making the
> wrong move and she could be gone and not return.  Bad scene.
>
> >>OK, so a Mourning Dove on a nest is not exciting.<<<
>
> Well I don't know about that, I think it's damn exciting to find one
nesting
> so you have the opportunity to photograph her in the first place. Hell I
bet
> there aren't more than two or three on the list who've ever shot a
bird....
> with a camera this close.
>
> Now "birdman Herr" you don't count in this one, as we know how beautiful
you
> shoot birds.;-)
>
> How long a lens are you working with or did I miss that in a previous
post?
> I did just read another post where you mention some gear. ;-) although, do
I
> denote a tone of.... sarcasm? ;-) Naw, I must be mistaken. ;-)
>
> Look to hell with all that baffle gab bull shit around here the past few
> days and lets stick with the dove and picture taking.. Do you have any
idea
> how long she'll sit before the chicks come out of the shell? I suppose she
> was there and you discovered her, but don't really have any idea how long
> she's been sitting already. Boy you've really cut yourself a tough shoot
as
> you'll need to have a boo at her every day.
>
> Well all the best with it mon ami, but don't let the BS around here the
past
> week or so get you down, as I and a bunch of others want to see some
> exciting little chick pix! :-)
>
> Good shooting... as long as it's the camera! ;-)
> ted
>
> Ted Grant Photography Limited
> www.islandnet.com/~tedgrant
>
>
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