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 18:18:43 2006
References: <C872CB0C-1662-4FD2-A359-D199D7E6C0ED@home.netspeed.com.au> <4525AAE9.6010209@waltjohnson.com>

True, but they get seriously chased by a local Goshawk every now and  
then.  Makes my waiting a little more interesting.

Rick.

On 06/10/2006, at 11:01 AM, Walt Johnson wrote:

> 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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