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| Posted: Sat Oct 24th, 2020 06:12 |
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Iain
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GeoffR wrote:So far I have found mine to be roundish and black but unfortunately not a rarity. 
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| Posted: Sun Oct 25th, 2020 19:18 |
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Richard_M
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A few snaps from the weekend in one of our local coastal reserves. These reserves are great for birding and native orchids. Nikon D500 with 200-500mm lens #1 Grey Butcherbird  #2 Rufous Whistler  #3 Eastern Rosella  #4 White-plumed Honeyeater  #5 Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike  #6 Shining Bronze-Cuckoo 
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| Posted: Mon Oct 26th, 2020 02:03 |
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Robert
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Thank's for posting Richard, lovely specimen images. Particularly like that you took the trouble to number and name them. Despite that they are all so nice I can't single one out for special praise, except perhaps #3 which is very eye-catching, perhaps a tighter crop of the left and bottom? Do you have any orchid images? Our range of orchids in the UK is somewhat limited and for most of the more special species they are very rare to find due to robbery. If you do have any flora images please will you post them in a new thread... 😇
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| Posted: Mon Oct 26th, 2020 03:20 |
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Richard_M
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Robert wrote:Thank's for posting Richard, lovely specimen images. Thank you for your kind comments Robert. I would normally crop a few of these, or photograph them, in portrait. We're currently getting images for our annual family calendar. This year it is birds, hence why most of these are in landscape to help my wife choose which images to go into the selection folder, then from there select the ones to be included. The Grey Butcherbird was never going to be a contender hence the portrait presentation. With regards native orchids, yes I do have many images which I will start sharing a few in a new post.
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| Posted: Mon Oct 26th, 2020 04:31 |
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Eric
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A lovely selection of well captured images Richard. Excellent. You are blessed with some lovely coloured species in your country ...and strong light. Sadly we suffer from damp dark miserable lighting a lot of the time here in the UK. 😞 I would agree with Robert's crop comments on image 3 but also add that the light from behind the bird subdues the breast colours being in shadow... which might be a less than ideal choice. I also think the pose in image 5 is very 'static', showing just the back. The branch (don't you love tree branches when photographing small birds in them ? ) coming out of its head detracts from the image. Just my 2 cents.
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| Posted: Mon Oct 26th, 2020 04:40 |
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Robert
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Richard_M wrote:With regards native orchids, yes I do have many images which I will start sharing a few in a new post. My pleasure! I look forward to seeing some of your orchid images. Mine are largely limited to botanic garden visits, which is far from ideal with other visitors jostling for position and limitations on the use of tripods, practical, if not by regulations. Last year I had the excitement of seeking out a rare, non-native orchid which I believe was a native of Canada, on the Isle of Skye, with a well known Norwegian botanist. We found it but I had been using her Z7 and didn't think to ask for the image files I made on her camera so I don't have any decent images, the iPhone snaps I took (mainly to get the GPS coordinates) were very poor as the red of the flower oversaturated the sensor.
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| Posted: Mon Oct 26th, 2020 16:26 |
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Iain
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A nice set of images Richard, the bright colours are great. If only we had a few of those here.
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| Posted: Mon Oct 26th, 2020 16:32 |
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Richard_M
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Eric wrote:A lovely selection of well captured images Richard. Excellent. Thank you Eric. We don't always have good light here in Melbourne, after all we're known to have 4 seasons in the one day. There is a saying, if you don't like the weather, just wait 15mins  With regards the Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike, there was also a juvenile near by  The images posted plus others which I haven't posted were all taken in under an hour. We've been under strict Covid lockdown for weeks where we were only allowed to travel 5km from home, and for 1hr per day. Luckily these restriction's are starting to be eased. As for the Eastern Rosella I did get a few images of them on the day.  While many of our local reserves have a good selection of birds and native orchids, they also have a lot of snakes. Looking for orchids, at least you're looking down, when out birding you need to keep looking where you're walking. Lowlands Copperhead   Where possible if its a dreary overcast day I try to photograph birds against a backdrop other than the sky. It doesn't always work out that way. Here are a few images taken on dull overcast days #1 Sacred Kingfisher  #2 White-naped Honeyeater  #3 Red-browed Finch  #4 Eastern Yellow Robin 
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| Posted: Mon Oct 26th, 2020 16:34 |
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Richard_M
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Robert wrote:My pleasure! Always special when you find something which is rare or unique. A pity you didn't get a copy of the files.
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| Posted: Mon Oct 26th, 2020 16:34 |
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Richard_M
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Iain wrote:A nice set of images Richard, the bright colours are great. If only we had a few of those here. Thank you Iain
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