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Last weekend 23-24th June, Christopher and I went to Scotland, long story but suffice to say it was a wonderful weekend apart from the midges.
We stayed at a campsite right next to a river with the most ferocious midges I have yet encountered. With the midges came swallows. In the morning I amused myself trying to photograph the swallows. I was shooting into the sun which didn't help, The lens was set in f/20, which explained why I needed ISO 3,200 to get an image at 1/500 sec, I was putting it down to the dark conditions, early morning and under trees. I am not used to using Shutter priority, which seemed appropriate at the time... I will stick with Aperture priority in future I think.
I used the 70-300 VR, hand held on the D3. The surface of the river was reflective, smooth black, mirror like. The swallows were catching flies very close to the water, indeed even splashing down occasionally. I had been hoping for a kingfisher which I was told do frequent that section of the river but perhaps they saw my lens.
Not wonderful images but in those conditions I was quite pleased. Don't think I will win any prizes with them.
I like the reflections.
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Robert.