lifeandmylens wrote:
My first "street" photo. This kid was loving all the pigeons. M7 + 24 lux + 250D.
Nice! I think the gulls are laughing gulls (that's their name), which would mean you've captured a laughing boy amid laughing gulls. However, they could also be Bonaparte's gulls; I'm not good at telling those two apart, especailly in a B&W photo (the laughing gull has a dark red bill; the Bonaparte's has a black bill).
bjhurley wrote:
Nice! I think the gulls are laughing gulls (that's their name), which would mean you've captured a laughing boy amid laughing gulls. However, they could also be Bonaparte's gulls; I'm not good at telling those two apart, especailly in a B&W photo (the laughing gull has a dark red bill; the Bonaparte's has a black bill).
Here’s a few I uploaded while trying to sell my Rolleiflex 2.8f. The portrait is using the Rollinar 2 and the barn shows the detail the of f/2.8 80mm Planar. Needless to say, I’m keeping the Rolleiflex!
The lighthouse photos are an RZ Pro II, and one using the tilt/shift adapter. The sunset is a Leica MP or an M2 with a pinhole lens.To give some perspective the Nubble Point Lighthouse (Maine) doesn’t usually get this rough tide on the beach side. The two waves slapped each other from opposite directions and created a wall that was over 20 feet high!
johnld wrote:
Here’s a few I uploaded while trying to sell my Rolleiflex 2.8f The portrait is using the Rollinar 2 and the barn shows the detail the of f/2.8 80mm Planar.
No, but that's exactly the kind of stuff that soured me on birding. I still watch birds, but I've never kept a life list and never saw it as a competitive sport. I knew one couple who had separate life lists before they were married and then established a joint life list of birds they'd seen together. All that stuff leaves me cold, especially just identifying birds and moving on. I'm more interested in observing bird behavior (I studied mockingbird behavior at university) than ticking species off a list.
We’re waiting for the Woodcocks to let us know Spring is here. Then the Bobolinks! We’re grateful that we’re under the Atlantic flyway for the migration. The Big Year is a fantastic movie for birders and non birders too.
johnld wrote:
We’re waiting for the Woodcocks to let us know Spring is here. Then the Bobolinks! We’re grateful that we’re under the Atlantic flyway for the migration. The Big Year is a fantastic movie for birders and non birders too.
I miss the woodcocks; they'd do their "peent" calls and mating dances in the field in front of my cottage when I lived in Vermont. Up here in Montréal the first signs of spring are the redwings (should be here in a week or two) and the ring-billed gulls (we get big clouds of them in the sky in early March; I assume they fly to the coast for the winter).
bjhurley wrote:
I miss the woodcocks; they'd do their "peent" calls and mating dances in the field in front of my cottage when I lived in Vermont. Up here in Montréal the first signs of spring are the redwings (should be here in a week or two) and the ring-billed gulls (we get big clouds of them in the sky in early March; I assume they fly to the coast for the winter).
Yes, the “phheent” is awesome! To attract a mate the males fly straight up in the air (100 feet) and then drop straight down. Works every time!
