Topic: Swans 'n' stuff (Read 7393 times)

Chairman Bill · « **on:** May 04, 2014, 03:52:46 pm »

I like swans. One of the most monochrome-ly photogenic birds around. That said, there's other birds that are equally photogenic, and as we've got a thread for trees & clouds & stuff, maybe we should have one for swans & stuff too. So I'll start

RSL · « **Reply #1 on:** May 04, 2014, 04:13:43 pm »

Okay, Bill. I gather we're not confined to monochrome. Here's a snowy egret fishing.

Chairman Bill · « **Reply #2 on:** May 04, 2014, 04:28:22 pm »

Very nice. Where's the hand of man?

RSL · « **Reply #3 on:** May 04, 2014, 04:41:22 pm »

Holding the camera.

Eric Myrvaagnes · « **Reply #4 on:** May 04, 2014, 09:53:46 pm »

Quote from: RSL on May 04, 2014, 04:41:22 pm

Holding the camera.

Touché!

Slobodan Blagojevic · « **Reply #5 on:** May 04, 2014, 10:55:00 pm »

Pardon me for reposting something I posted recently in another thread, but I thought it would match nicely the opening b&w shot:

Pelican by Slobodan Blagojevic, on Flickr

stamper · « **Reply #6 on:** May 05, 2014, 04:11:23 am »

Bill you have posted a fine image. Imo getting a good image of a swan is difficult usually because of the difference between the lightness of the swan and the dark background but you have pulled if off.

Chairman Bill · « **Reply #7 on:** May 05, 2014, 04:22:36 am »

Slobodan, that's a beauty.

Stamper - thanks for that. They do need a bit of care with the exposure, and grab shots of this one in flight do have some dodgy highlights, but he was happily displaying threat gestures (how ever endearing his pose is, that's what it s part of) for some time, so I managed a whole series, all nicely exposed, though this was the best pose.

seamus finn · « **Reply #8 on:** May 05, 2014, 01:19:01 pm »

Here's a robin holding a mayfly

RSL · « **Reply #9 on:** May 06, 2014, 10:43:12 am »

Great timing, Seamus.

RSL · « **Reply #10 on:** May 06, 2014, 10:43:59 am »

Anhinga drying his wings.

Jeremy Roussak · « **Reply #11 on:** May 06, 2014, 04:06:42 pm »

Quote from: RSL on May 06, 2014, 10:43:59 am

Anhinga drying his wings.

Lovely light on the feathers, Russ.

Jeremy

RSL · « **Reply #12 on:** May 07, 2014, 11:13:53 am »

Had to crop this little guy because I had a short lens on the camera and didn't want to get too close. He'd just been kicked out of the nest. Next day when I walked the river I could hear the mom out in the woods teaching the kid how to hunt.

francois · « **Reply #13 on:** May 08, 2014, 08:33:55 am »

Here a local swan…

Jeremy Roussak · « **Reply #14 on:** May 08, 2014, 02:38:31 pm »

Bustard and lurking hyena.

Jeremy

seamus finn · « **Reply #15 on:** May 08, 2014, 04:18:02 pm »

That's a great picture - the threat, the menace.

RSL · « **Reply #16 on:** May 08, 2014, 04:22:52 pm »

sdwilsonsct · « **Reply #17 on:** May 08, 2014, 08:38:59 pm »

Lots of good birds here, but Bill's first swan is especially fine.

RobbieV · « **Reply #18 on:** May 09, 2014, 06:22:59 pm »

7 vultures at sunset.

seamus finn · « **Reply #19 on:** May 09, 2014, 08:43:05 pm »

That's a five-star shot - I wish I had taken it myself...

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