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Subject: [Leica] Trip to L&D14 last Sunday
From: lluisripollphotography at gmail.com (Lluis Ripoll)
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 18:19:10 +0100
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Gene,

Excellent series
Cheers
Lluis


El 25/01/2014, a las 10:45, H&ECummer <cummer at netvigator.com> escribi?:

> Hi Gene,
> A most powerful and interesting sequence. How many fps were you shooting? 
> The D4 did a really good job of tracking judging from the sharpness of the 
> photos.
> I noted the presence of many tripods in the photographers shot. Did you 
> use a tripod? In my eagle shooting experience on Pender Island I wouldn't 
> use a tripod - it is too restrictive to fast movement. I use a mono pod 
> instead. Any way great sequence. Have you more?
> Cheers
> Howard
> 
> Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 21:57:10 -0600 (CST)
> From: grduprey at mchsi.com
> Subject: [Leica] Trip to L&D14 last Sunday
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> 
> Last Sunday I was down on the Mississippi River, South of LeClaire, Iowa 
> to photograph the Bald Eagles and took this series of an Immature Bald 
> Eagle learning to fish.  
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/GRDuprey/untitled-0828a.jpg.html
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/GRDuprey/untitled-0829a.jpg.html
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/GRDuprey/untitled-0830a.jpg.html
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/GRDuprey/untitled-0831a.jpg.html
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/GRDuprey/untitled-0832a.jpg.html
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/GRDuprey/untitled-0833a.jpg.html
> 
> Here is a photo of the crowd on Sunday.  Quite a large crowd, over 180 
> photographers, for such a warm day, 38F, as the Eagles are not usually as 
> active on warm days.  They were actually quite active and teh shooting was 
> very good in spite of the high temperature, but the river has a large fish 
> population right now and that may be why they were out in the numbers we 
> found on Sunday, about 150 birds.  Lock & Dam 14 is one of the best Bald 
> Eagle sites in the Lower 48 to photograph these birds, as they fish fairly 
> close to the bank of the river in Iowa.
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/GRDuprey/untitled-1016756a.jpg.html
> 
> Comments welcome, and please view large for best detail.
> 
> Gene
> 
> 
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