Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/05

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Subject: [Leica] Mr and Mrs Wren - at last
From: rdandcb at home.netspeed.com.au (Rick Dykstra)
Date: Thu Oct 5 17:18:28 2006
References: <C872CB0C-1662-4FD2-A359-D199D7E6C0ED@home.netspeed.com.au>

Oh, and rdandcb = Rick Dykstra.  Caught out by my new email setup.  :-)

Rick.

On 06/10/2006, at 10:08 AM, rdandcb wrote:

> Last Monday was a public holiday and I spent most of it sitting on  
> a rock next to a bigger rock that has a small recess that holds  
> water.  My puddle rock.  For three years I have been trying to get  
> a picture of a male blue wren at this site and it all came together  
> about four hours into that session.  These are highly mobile birds,  
> staying still for only fractions of a second.  The males, when they  
> come for a dip, are in and out in a flash.  The females of course  
> spend far more time in the bathroom - a couple of seconds at  
> least.  So, I'm rather happy with this one.  R8, APO-Telyt-R  
> f5.6/560mm, Velvia 100, f8 and 1/125th in manual mode, manual flash  
> pre-metered using F mode.
>
> http://home.netspeed.com.au/rdcb37/mrandmrswren.jpg
>
> Some other puddle-rock shots are here
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/Nature
>
>
>
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