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From the expression on your faces, it looks like one or all of you broke wind and the birds are not taking flight, they are dropping out of the sky for that fianal landing. :cheers
Looking forward to the shots from Graham.
Well I look as though I am stifling a yawn... I don't recall that but perhaps I might be excused...
I left Lancaster at 10pm Sunday night, drove to a waterfall in Derbyshire, arrived about 2am, spent an hour there photographing stars and the waterfall by torch and flash, continued down to Boston, has breakfast at 6am, arriving at Frampton in time to catch 40 winks before Eric arrived just before 9:30 am. We had a lovely time at Frampton together, Eric, Graham and myself, together with birdwatchers Mike and Tom.
Afterwards I followed Eric home, we had a very enjoyable evening discussing photography. On Tuesday morning I set off for home, but it was such a nice day I decided to make something of it, so I set course for Ness Gardens, where I took almost 400 photographs of flowers, admittedly most were 5 shot bracketed due to the bright sunlight. I then visited an old friend from school days, who lives nearby the Gardens, just over the Welsh border. I arrived back home at three O'clock this morning.
I had seriously considered coming home from Wales via the Derwent Valley where a Lancaster Bomber was due to make a flypast to commemorate 100 years of the RAF and 75 years since the 617 Squadron's raid on the German Dams. It was scheduled for noon today but I checked out the weather and heavy cloud was forecast so I (rightly) assumed it would be cancelled.
Graham kindly let me try his 80-400 + TC1.4, a lens I haven't used before, I also used my 70-300VR 4.5-5.6.
I am surprised how many of the photo's I took were (to me) acceptable. Not perfect because except when I used Grahams lens I was maxed out at 300mm on FX, with 12.5Mp, while Eric had the luxury equivalent of 630mm with his combo on the D500.From my 220 shots I have picked 20, these are the least worst...
All taken with the D3 with Aperture priority, ISO 400, mostly with the Nikkor 70-300 VR 4.5-5.6. Most of the images are at close to 100% crop, ie camera pixel to screen pixel.
Eric trying to open the gate, turned out there were three ways to unlatch it, none particular obvious...
Graham trying to see a particularly rare/unusual tiny bird which was really beyond reach.
The brown bird to the left of the Avocets.
Two Ringed Plover and another small Plover, the rings are opposite colours, can't remember names
A pair of Avoset's.
A minor scuffle!
What you looking at???
Another scuffle...
Another smaller bird, again can't remember the name. I could do with an SD card slot so I could maybe remember stuff...
Last but not least, these two.
Just have a bunch of bracketed flower photo's to wade through now, then when I am in the mood, finish my night time waterfall/startrails photo, which looks like it might have some merit...
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Robert.