Well I've finally finished my book. I'm a bit miffed with the company cause the book became far more expensive than their pricing said it would & I'm miffed. Guess I had no chance to decide which paper I want & it became far more than I wanted. Lets just hope I get it in time to send to Sweden.....

Anyhow this is another set from back in July which I have not posted. This one is about meet ups in between adult & chick...... These are shot through the chain linked fence - so I'm sorry if the quality is not up to par.... Either way, many of these shots made the book. I had no idea how hard this was going to be. 200 pages later & 280 photographs - - I'm done & exhausted....

I will let the photographs speak for themselves....

Usual equipment - D300 with the Sigmonster....

I hope you will enjoy....

Lil

# 1 - Mom Mom Moooooooommmmmmm I'm hungry...



# 2 - Daaaaaaaadddddddd I'm hungry.......



# 3 - Darn them.... I guess I better hide....



# 4 - Least Tern adult feeding chick



# 5 - handover



# 6 - Parent spending some "quality time" with swallowing chick...



# 7 - Swallow it whole dear...



# 8 - Patient parent....



The rest of the shots are very emotional to me. It was heart wrenching to watch it... Call me sentimental, but the mother in me still feels like my heart is being cut out....

# 9 - Another parent arrives with dinner....



# 10 - Where is my chick? Patiently the parent waits......



# 11 - Where is my chick? ? ? No chick is coming out...



# 12 - Maybe if I wave it around....... Still no chick arrives...



# 14 - I'm out of here... or Chad's narration works well as well "Where did he go?" The parent leaves - - I don't know the fate of the chick....

Lil, what a special series.... and to see you started out with a shot of Ant calling out to you saying he is hungry... he is always hungry!

I sure hope the chick made it... so what did you do with the little chick? take it home for safe keeping you know in #14 the mother is looking at you saying where did he go?

C

Wonderful series Lil. Hard to say these were taken through a fence. #4 is so sweeeet.
Congrats on your book.
Harsha

And the images do speak for themselves Lil.
A lovely series with lots of color and action.
My top pick is #1.
Martin

Hi LiL,

Excellent series, really tells the story.
I especially like the photo of the chick hiding.

Regards,
Tom

Stunning series Lil, and you waited 5 months to share it with us, shame on you .

Garen

What a fun series, you done did gooood.


Wacky roger
Founding Member Of OOOPs

really special series like everyone has said....

Lovely behavior well shot Lil! This is such a sweet and touching series and very well photographed.

Tim

Wow. A great series and you tell it well too.

72chevelle454 wrote:
Lil, what a special series.... and to see you started out with a shot of Ant calling out to you saying he is hungry... he is always hungry!

I sure hope the chick made it... so what did you do with the little chick? take it home for safe keeping you know in #14 the mother is looking at you saying where did he go?

C

Thank you Chad,

kids - - always hungry. How true.

I hope the chick was there somewhere & just not hungry at the time. I like your narration for # 14 better. "Where did he go?"

I did not steal any chicks when I was there - - I promise. As a mother I could not ever do that. I know it would upset the mother.....

Glad you enjoyed them Chad

Lil

harshaj1 wrote:
Wonderful series Lil. Hard to say these were taken through a fence. #4 is so sweeeet.
Congrats on your book.
Harsha

Thank you Harsha,

I must say I think the Sigmonster did well through the fence. Glad you like # 4 - I was so upset I clipped the wing, but in the long run I feel it still worked out....

Glad you like them

Lil

Martin Good wrote:
And the images do speak for themselves Lil.
A lovely series with lots of color and action.
My top pick is #1.
Martin

Thank you Martin,

I'm glad you like them. Thanks for the pick.

Lil

JtJt wrote:
Hi LiL,

Excellent series, really tells the story.
I especially like the photo of the chick hiding.

Regards,
Tom

Thank you Tom,

Glad you like that shot. It really shows us how tiny the chick was. Personally I think it's almost hysterical that the chick thinks it can hide there.... But I guess I can....

Thanks

Lil

GAREN wrote:
Stunning series Lil, and you waited 5 months to share it with us, shame on you .

Garen

Sorry Garen,

these were taken at the same time as the Killdeer shots & I just ended up shooting so much I was backlogged.... Really backlogged in my pp work. I finished them not all that long ago. And then I had to get the book done & it drove me nuts to get it done......

Glad you like them

Lil

thehotel wrote:
What a fun series, you done did gooood.


Wacky roger
Founding Member Of OOOPs

Thank you Roger,

so glad you like them.

Lil

mike reid wrote:
really special series like everyone has said....

Thank you Mike

Glad you like them.

Lil

Tim Kuhn wrote:
Lovely behavior well shot Lil! This is such a sweet and touching series and very well photographed.

Tim

Thank you Tim,

so glad you like them. Those last shots still upset me & my heart was aching when I shot them.... I will remain positive & hope the chick was just not hungry...

Lil

thedigitalbean wrote:
Wow. A great series and you tell it well too.

Thank you Aravind,

I'm happy you enjoyed them.

Lil

Lil a very special series. Excellent, well done, marvelous, exceptional, top notch, heavy duty.......hee hee.

Ted

Ted ellis wrote:
Lil a very special series. Excellent, well done, marvelous, exceptional, top notch, heavy duty.......hee hee.

Ted

AAaaaaahhhhhhh Ted,

you are just too sweet.

So glad you enjoyed them

I have one more series of little fluffballs coming up - - stay tuned...

Lil

Lil, I would be proud to put these images in my book, for they are very nice! Could you PM me with the name of the company you used to make your book, because I have been really interested in making one.

Well at least you finished it so that's 1 thing less to think about
sweet shots Lil You can barely see the fence pattern in some bgs but not too much! Hope the chick was ok in the end...maybe he decided he needs a break from over-caring parents

These are wweeet shots, Lil I recall the 1st time I got to watch the feeding process and was, like, wowed by it. You done a great job of capturing the moment.

Ken