Had quite a bit of gusting wind today which interfered with BIF photography. Did about 50 frames, and then gave up. Got just one image which is half presentable, and not even a true power flight, merely a landing.
I am not a pigeon expert like Peter here (or any other bird for that matter) but i find this composition quite nice. I rarely get a pigeon in focus so...
Safcraft, it does take considerable skill to be shooting any birds in flight with the Pipe, let alone pijuns which are fast flyers. Both of yours are fine shots.
Trying to get as many images as I can in in the next couple weeks as the breeding season started early around here. Was happy to find these big boys and their harem of hens.
Canon 50D and 400mm F5/6L on a monopod.
Mike Bons wrote:
Trying to get as many images as I can in in the next couple weeks as the breeding season started early around here. Was happy to find these big boys and their harem of hens.
Canon 50D and 400mm F5/6L on a monopod.
Great find, John T, there's nothing like discovering a new wilderness around the corner...
And I love Jennie and her "ray gun" - shooting glowing baubles - beautiful round specular highlights (or whatever the technical term)..."Goodness gracious, great balls of fire!"...
Just wanted to say a quick hello and wish everyone a Happy Easter & Passover. Two from today with the FD 400 f2.8 with the EF 2X II T.C. attached (non-reporting). I was surprised by the decent results, as I expected a large amount of CA, which I did not find, even in the contra-light conditions.
Every spring we pay a visit to a butterfly place. However, today the place was congested with small screaming and hyperactive children , so we left after 15 minutes. Got only a few shots.
Handheld 1DMkIIN + 100L, shot as JPG in natural light.
Another fine set from the Easter Parade, Psychic1; the first is my favorite, because of the rich colors of the lilies and the even light on her face...
I can't help but remember (and offer yet more accolades) for your portrait from last year's parade of The Girl With the Wistful Face (I know, she was probably just tired of being on her Dad's shoulders all morning and ready to put her flowery hat away, but please, leave me my illusions )...I had the thread page bookmarked, but that was on a Windows computer that crashed.
It would be okay with me if you posted it again...
reno.peterson wrote:
Even the St. Louis Arch is getting ready!!! Here's a shot after the winter...Starting to slim down a bit!!! (Opportunity here is credited to my wife. She saw this perspective...)
Been to St. Louis many times but never saw the arch from this view.
John_T wrote:
...well Peter, I saw the vague shape of this big guy coming, slow, deep and powerful wing beats. So I scrambled for and scrabbled with my photographic contraption (Damn! AF limiter, single point, ISO100, etc. all the wrong settings, damn!). While I scramble, he looms larger and nearer, and all I hear is a heavy wamp... wamp... wamp... as he sweeps close by. So since I never got a good look at him through the snow, he has got to be a Wamp-Wamp.
Sounds indian, I like it...
OK, John, now I get it .........the bird must have flown only a few meters from where you stood.
Some kind of a hawk I guess ?
...yesterday some very large bird of prey flew by along side a large heron, both with about the same wingspan, too misty and grey to make out any details, much less a scramble-scramble shot, so I don't know nuthin about nuthin.
, so we left after 15 minutes. Got only a few shots.
)...I had the thread page bookmarked, but that was on a Windows computer that crashed. 
