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Subject: [Leica] Panamanian Birds
From: afirkin at afirkin.com (afirkin at afirkin.com)
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 04:28:58 -0500
References: <0A3BABE6-02B6-478B-AF44-62BB95441EA1@depaul.edu>

> Folks -
>
> Well... seeing as how I ended up with no film in Panama I was left with no
> other option than to tag along with My Wife the Birder and shoot a lotta
> birds..
>
> So, it was Telyt & Tilley hat for me, with 6 days split between the Canopy
> Tower outside of  Gamboa & the Canopy Lodge in El Valle. ( Both places, by
> the way, are All Leica facilities, with the guides sporting nothing but
> Red Dots all over their binos & scopes.)  Every day we'd get up before
> dawn and go out with a guide, tramp around 'till noon, eat lunch, then go
> out again 'till sunset.
>
> After hacking away for a bit since we got back to the states I finally had
> to admit that I really have no skills with which to edit images in
> Lightroom, so I just cropped most of the shots into squares and threw up
> the roughs.  A somewhat mixed bag (yeah, I know..."you are what you post"
> etc.) but I did what I could with the birds at hand:
>
> http://www.pbase.com/bobsworld/panama
>
> Actually, my favorite shot of the trip is the last one, of The Humans,
> with my pocket camera.  Also, the shot of the Great Potoo is one of those
> point-the-point-&-shoot-through-the-scope-eyepiece kindof things.
> Everything else was shot with the 400 Telyt.
>
> Comments, corrections on bird ID's, etc. are welcome.
>
> Bob Palmieri

Well I think it looks like a very impressive collection.

Cheers

looks warmer than Chicago

Alastair



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