pbraymond wrote:
The variety in chicken markings continue to amaze me Jim, thanks for sharing! Maybe I should take to birding with chickens - don't need the long lenses then.
pbraymond wrote:
The variety in chicken markings continue to amaze me Jim, thanks for sharing! Maybe I should take to birding with chickens - don't need the long lenses then.
I got rust colored chickens, because I was interested in their eggs. Hard brown shells, deep yellow yolks etc. My
daughter had different priorities. She has five pretty hens - all completely different. The eggs are all over the spectrum.
pbraymond wrote:
The variety in chicken markings continue to amaze me Jim, thanks for sharing! Maybe I should take to birding with chickens - don't need the long lenses then.
pbraymond wrote:
The variety in chicken markings continue to amaze me Jim, thanks for sharing! Maybe I should take to birding with chickens - don't need the long lenses then.
I got rust colored chickens, because I was interested in their eggs. Hard brown shells, deep yellow yolks etc. My
daughter had different priorities. She has five pretty hens - all completely different. The eggs are all over the spectrum.
For years we had used Red Sex Links for our eggs to sell at the market because they lay so well. Great chickens, but I wanted a little something different. So a month ago, we bought some Black Sex Links pullets.
I thought about getting rid of chickens all together, but after buying some store eggs I quickly changed my mind. NO comparison.
pbraymond wrote:
The variety in chicken markings continue to amaze me Jim, thanks for sharing! Maybe I should take to birding with chickens - don't need the long lenses then.
pbraymond wrote:
The variety in chicken markings continue to amaze me Jim, thanks for sharing! Maybe I should take to birding with chickens - don't need the long lenses then.
Thanks for the comments on the reflection of fall colors shot. It was a great setting that lent itself to many variations in composition, and the light lasted quite awhile with shadows creeping into the shot as the day went on.
Next up, I have a preference for the vertical, what's yours? This was an attempt to embrace the chaos (as I call all the foreground / high growth stuff that is ever present it seems in Ohio). 25-50 AIS.
pbraymond wrote:
Thanks for the comments on the reflection of fall colors shot. It was a great setting that lent itself to many variations in composition, and the light lasted quite awhile with shadows creeping into the shot as the day went on.
Next up, I have a preference for the vertical, what's yours? This was an attempt to embrace the chaos (as I call all the foreground / high growth stuff that is ever present it seems in Ohio). 25-50 AIS.
Ray, I like them both for different reasons. The vertical does tame natures growth but the horizontal does extend the lovely bridge and gives just a hint of the water it is crossing. The tree trunk in the horizontal is a bit "in the way". Tough choice but they are both nice.
Scott
The entire reason I had a chicken coup was the bad egg quality from the grocery store. Anemic yolks, and eggs with a spider-web of fractured shells. Some would fall apart just getting them out of the carton. When I searched your "Black Sex Links pullets" it led directly to where I got my (I think) Rhode Island Red pullets - Tractor Supply. They had all these chicks in large galvanized cattle feeders, and I was about to purchase a half dozen. A farmer standing nearby asked "first time?", and I said yes. He gave me a quick education, and offered to give me four pullets he needed to find a home. I accepted his generous offer. I had drawn up specific plans for my sons to build a mobile coup for a mother's day present - I added the wheels and dual ceramic light bulb receptacles for heating the coup in the winter with traditional 60 watt light bulbs. It worked great for about 5-6 years and then multiple predators killed all the chickens in just 2-3 months. The last one was very traumatic - as she got pulled through a chicken wire fence. I'd run out there naked with a flashlight, but not in time. Owls, raccoons, and i think a raptor of some sort got them all. Now we get good eggs at Aldi, but I do miss them talking all the time.
leighton w wrote:
For years we had used Red Sex Links for our eggs to sell at the market because they lay so well. Great chickens, but I wanted a little something different. So a month ago, we bought some Black Sex Links pullets.
I thought about getting rid of chickens all together, but after buying some store eggs I quickly changed my mind. NO comparison.
Very reassuring to see you all producing such beautiful images.
I am not going anywhere but my life has continued to be a whirlwind of activities with friends and family visiting every day, not doing marvels for my weight.
We are celebrating el dia de los muertos with new meaning, I did build a little altar at home and we will go the the celebration tonight at the California Center for the Arts, where Abner used to work as a lighting technician while going to college. Not going to dwell on this topic for the thread. But we did have fun, he had a heart to make lifelong friends and included me in everything he did. Always found young latins to be very welcoming of older people.
On this date we celebrate those lost and hope they can still feel our love for them.
A college birthday celebration at home, believe or not they were all very well behaved and spent the night so they would not have to drive.
Perusing EBAY, there was this listing for an Ultra Micro Nikkor 55mm 2.0 by a Zero feedback seller in Farroupilha, RS, Brazil. I figured it was a scam, but threw 100$ at it in the hope that Paypal and Ebay would honor if this was a fake post.
Won the lens for $100. A box is arriving today, wonder if it will arrive empty or not!!!!!!!
Perusing EBAY, there was this listing for an Ultra Micro Nikkor 55mm 2.0 by a Zero feedback seller in Farroupilha, RS, Brazil. I figured it was a scam, but threw 100$ at it in the hope that Paypal and Ebay would honor if this was a fake post.
Won the lens for $100. A box is arriving today, wonder if it will arrive empty or not!!!!!!!
Perusing EBAY, there was this listing for an Ultra Micro Nikkor 55mm 2.0 by a Zero feedback seller in Farroupilha, RS, Brazil. I figured it was a scam, but threw 100$ at it in the hope that Paypal and Ebay would honor if this was a fake post.
Won the lens for $100. A box is arriving today, wonder if it will arrive empty or not!!!!!!!
