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Subject: [Leica] Wednesday Walk/Urban Cormorant
From: douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp)
Date: Wed Nov 9 12:32:06 2005
References: <43724E99.10205@gmx.de> <p06230904bf980aeac83f@[131.142.12.152]>

Noted Dick,
I'll try your crop and post it tomorrow, thanks!
Douglas

Richard S. Taylor wrote:

> #4, I think, is a keeper but with a tight crop on the bird to get rid 
> of all that guano.
>
> Dick
> Boston MA
>
>> Hello all,
>> the weekly wednesday walk along the canal.
>> Not often we get one of these on the canal, although the guano shows 
>> that it must have been his perch for quite a time.
>>
>> I've posted 8 shots of the cormorant (well I think it is 
>> one),unfortunately the grass and reeds on the canal bank obscured the 
>> view a little
>> (very steep, and I'm not going down there with a duff arm, or at 
>> least getting back up might be a little difficult)
>> .
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/New-Old-Pictures/MG_3270_edited_3 Wing 
>> Drying (Cormorants are not waterproof)
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/New-Old-Pictures/MG_3271_edited_2_001 
>> He's noticed I'm there , I sneezed
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/New-Old-Pictures/MG_3273_edited_2 
>> Preening under his wing
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/New-Old-Pictures/MG_3269_edited_2 Very 
>> elegant pose, wing and tail feathers spread
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/New-Old-Pictures/MG_3268_edited_2 More 
>> or less the same , less wing and more tail
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/New-Old-Pictures/MG_3265_edited_2 
>> Balancing on one leg
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/New-Old-Pictures/MG_3264_edited_2 
>> Preening his breast feathers
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/New-Old-Pictures/MG_3264_edited_2 
>> Alert and watching
>>
>> some are quite similar (apart from being the same bird)
>> Please let me know which ones to crop, throw out, darken , lighten, 
>> sharpen or whatever.
>> cheers
>> Douglas
>>
>> Shot with the 20D and a Novoflex 5,6/400 at f5,6 or f8 under the 
>> extreme difficulty of having my left arm in plaster from wrist to 
>> shoulder, but it makes a good lens support.
>> If this is his daily vantage point I'll go back tomorrow with a 
>> tripod and a 600mm too.
>>
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