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[ISv]

It's always a pleasure to look at your photos., ISv.

Thanks Click!

 

[ISv]

Few more from today: I ignored them yesterday. It will make almost complete list of the seed/grass eaters in that park. I think I missed the House Sparrow again ! As well as the doves...
On other hand I didn't see any Chestnut Munia today but this is a huge park!

First two adult and sub-adult Scylla-breasted Munia.
After that two Java Sparrows (no, the first one is just stretching!)
One Saffron finch and one Yellow-faced Canary.

 

[Click]

Very nice shots,ISv. I really like the 4th one, with the leaf in its beak.

 

[GMCPhotographics]

A female Paradise Fly Catcher,
Male Red vented Bulbul
Common Tailorbird
Indian Pond Heron
Canon R6ii, EF 400mm f2.8 L IS II and a 2x TC III

 

[docsmith]

Summertime is kayaking and photographing loons....



All with the R5 Mk I and RF 200-800 combination.

 

[Click]

Very nice series, docsmith. I especially like the first picture.

 

[ISv]

A female Paradise Fly Catcher,
Male Red vented Bulbul
Common Tailorbird
Indian Pond Heron
Canon R6ii, EF 400mm f2.8 L IS II and a 2x TC III
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"Simplicity, abstraction, timing, colour, ambience, mood, feel and narrative...elements of great photography."
My personal narrative is that birds are wild animals and don't collaborate - by rule! It means I use to take photos at any circumstances (well, as a nonprofessional photographer I don't care what would be selling best or at all...).
I like when the birds are collaborating but it's an exception than the rule! And I don't want to wait for the exceptions - just trying to catch the maximum of the available .... (see your list above)!

Just the Red-vented Bulbul (I don't have the rest on Hawaii)!

 

[Click]

Great shots, ISv.

 

[MSH411]

Another great series ISv. Big fan of #4!

For some reason the chain just works.

 

[ISv]

Great shots, ISv.

Another great series ISv. Big fan of #4!

For some reason the chain just works.

Thanks! Yeah, I was surprised that it doesn't look so bad on that rusty chain.

 

[MSH411]

No exactly the opposite, unique and very interesting.....kind of cool.

 

[AlanF]

Oh dear, here I am in Seattle and my new R5ii is waiting to be collected from the WEX store back home, so I have had to use my now totally obsolete R5 and the almost wide angle RF 100-500 instead of the 200-800 which is too large for me to pack. I was hoping to get some shots of a Bald Eagle, but this is typical of all I can get with the antiquated gear.

 

[AlanF]

Went on a Puffin cruise to Smith Island, hoping to get a glimpse of a Tufted and Horned Puffin.

 

[AlanF]

Not having Pre-Capture on the R5 and with its much inferior AF, I had to make do with this of the Horned Puffin.

 

[Click]

Great shots, Alan!

 

[neuroanatomist]

is typical of all I can get with the antiquated gear... Went on a Puffin cruise to Smith Island, hoping to get a glimpse of a Tufted and Horned Puffin.

I’m sorry. That’s what happens when you lack skill.

 

[Dragon]

Oh dear, here I am in Seattle and my new R5ii is waiting to be collected from the WEX store back home, so I have had to use my now totally obsolete R5 and the almost wide angle RF 100-500 instead of the 200-800 which is too large for me to pack. I was hoping to get some shots of a Bald Eagle, but this is typical of all I can get with the antiquated gear.

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Not bad at all for antiquated gear .

 

[ISv]

I’m sorry. That’s what happens when you lack skill.

Do you mean the photos or the fact that he is buying new camera?

Oh dear, here I am in Seattle and my new R5ii is waiting to be collected from the WEX store back home, so I have had to use my now totally obsolete R5 and the almost wide angle RF 100-500 instead of the 200-800 which is too large for me to pack. I was hoping to get some shots of a Bald Eagle, but this is typical of all I can get with the antiquated gear.

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First one is my favorite but the second is not far behind! For "almost wide-angle" lens it's not that bad actually!!!

 

[meywd]

Oh dear, here I am in Seattle and my new R5ii is waiting to be collected from the WEX store back home, so I have had to use my now totally obsolete R5 and the almost wide angle RF 100-500 instead of the 200-800 which is too large for me to pack. I was hoping to get some shots of a Bald Eagle, but this is typical of all I can get with the antiquated gear.

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Great shots all over Alan, where did you take these?

 

[AlanF]

Great shots all over Alan, where did you take these?

Thanks. On the shore of Mercer Island. The Eagle was initially perched at the top of a very tall tree, flew down into the lake, and returned with a fish and started eating it low down just opposite me. The light was from behind me and he was unobscured. It was in the garden of a friend.