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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Adelaide wildlife, kind of
From: douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp)
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 10:51:08 +0100
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Geoff,

here's a nice Black Swan story from Germany:

http://bowleserised.blogspot.com/2006/11/love-story-of-year.html

The relationship held strong in 2007, but the Black Swan didn't return 
in 2008.

Cheers
Douglas

Geoff Hopkinson wrote:
> Excellent Justin. I have a standing joke with one of my EuroLUG friends
> regarding 18% grey swans being the progeny of our black variant and the
> European white ones. Your cygnet proves the theory ;-)
> I was just pleased the Torrens Lake had refilled from mud flats in time for
> Brian and Victoria's visit. We missed your company over an excellent 
> gourmet
> lunch with Marty and Anita's AdeLUG friends, tea and dim sum for afternoon
> tea next day and Jasmine's for curries on that night.
>
> 2009/3/18 Justin Viiret <jviiret at gmail.com>
>
>   
>> Hi Geoff,
>>
>> Yes -- when I first bought my M3 a few years ago I was doing my
>> postgraduate study at Adelaide University, and I used to wander down to 
>> the
>> river to relax and occasionally photograph the swans. One of the earliest
>> pictures I took with the camera and a 50 rigid summicron is here:
>>
>> <http://www.flickr.com/photos/jviiret/11015767/>
>>
>> They're very tame, too -- even the cygnets are convinced you're about to
>> feed them and will paddly up to you and squeak away. They used to go for 
>> the
>> shiny little lens cap fairly often, too. ;)
>>
>> jv
>>
>>
>> On 18/03/2009, at 3:41 PM, Geoff Hopkinson wrote:
>>
>>   Folks some native fauna spotted in Adelaide while on my way to meet
>>     
>>> Brian
>>> for tea and spicy morsels on day two.
>>> Seven new photos in this gallery starting with this one:
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/a/br/21Ad.jpg.html
>>>
>>> 50 & 28 on the M8.
>>> Profound apologies to Doug Herr.
>>> Comments welcome
>>>
>>> --
>>> Cheers
>>> Geoff
>>> 'Pick up your Leica and make the best photo you can'
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/a/
>>> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman
>>>
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