On Sat, 05 Apr 2008 23:14:11 -0800, Blinky the Shark
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>tony cooper wrote:
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>> On Sat, 05 Apr 2008 21:40:15 -0800, Blinky the Shark
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>> wrote:
>>
>>>tony cooper wrote:
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>>>> On Sat, 05 Apr 2008 18:55:38 -0800, Blinky the Shark
>>>> <no.spam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>>>>>I did get a nice ****trait that day.
>>>>>
>>>>>http://blinkynet.net/stuff/peli****t.jpg
>>>>>
>>>>>Naturally, these are downsized and compressed from the originals, for
>>>>>online useage.
>>>>
>>>> I think I shot his cousin last weekend at the pier at Jacksonville
>>>> Beach:
http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f244/cooper213/jaxpier-007.jpg
>>>
>>>Nice. And with that coloration, you didn't have to worry about
something
>>>like that small bit of white that blew out in mine.
>>>
>>>> Got a two-headed one, too:
>>>
>>>Must've been a mutant. :)
>>>
>>>> http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f244/cooper213/jaxpier-006.jpg
>>>
>>>> This one's out-of-focus, though.
>>>
>>>Looks like focus fell on the head of the upstage bird. More DOF and
>>>you'd have been in like Flynn.
>>>
>>>Got any of these out on the beach on your end (I'm shooting
California)?
>>>
>>>http://blinkynet.net/stuff/beachsq.jpg
>>
>> Nope. Lottsa squirrely people though. We post guards on the pier to
>> watch out for them, though.
>>
>> http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f244/cooper213/guardduty.jpg
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>They do look alert, too.
>
>I like the crossed pelicans idea. Worthy of a coat of arms, a pair of
>those crossed pelicans be. :)
>
>Out here the pelicans subcontract sand pickets to walk the beach itself
>looking for things untoward. Actually, I saved this one because I love
>the reflection of the bird in the wet sand -- it looks painted.
>Unexpected impressionism. I wish I'd got it all, dammit.
>
>http://blinkynet.net/stuff/picket.jpg
>
>*Something's* got his feathers ruffled. I hope it's just a strong breeze
>from astern.
The reason that birds don't breed with birds of other species is that
foreplay can be awkward. Your bird, and my bird at:
http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f244/cooper213/bird005.jpg
couldn't
even be kissing cousins.
It was raining yesterday, and I saw a hawk sitting on a fairway of the
golf course that I live on. By the time I got the camera out, the
hawk was gone. There must have been 25 of these fellows (White Ibis)
on the fairway looking for morsels that came up with the rain.
Hawks are often seen in my neighborhood, but I've yet to get a good
picture of one. My longest lens is 200mm, and hawks are skittish.
Out near the St John's (river), they wait and watch on telephone
lines, but a 200mm won't get you close enough to get any detail even
at that distance.
The Osprey is another hard-to-photograph Florida bird with only a
200mm. Often seen, but difficult to get near.
--
Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida
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