[Leica] Mr and Mrs Wren - at last

[walt at waltjohnson.com (Walt Johnson)]

Beautiful color. Sometimes I really envy birds, they never watch TV news.

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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