Posers
October 23rd, 2008
There's nothing like chickadees to make a nature photographer feel like a million bucks.
They almost seem to be helping you out. "Over here! Me me me! Photograph me. No wait, the light is all wrong. Let me move over there. Okay, here we go. Cheese!"
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So I went down to Henry's camera shop today. I learned that there is, in fact, a lens that does 400mm zoom and is in my price range (just). Yay!
I also learned that, dear god, I need steroids to carry that thing. Way too heavy for handheld shooting + my arm strength. Unyay. Since I don't like the idea of having to lug a tripod everywhere, 70-300mm it is. So I (re-)bought it and went down to Mud Lake with it this afternoon. Got lots of distant poor-quality shots of interesting birds (Wood Ducks, Common Goldeneyes, Scaup), and several glorious pictures of chickadees.
I have high hopes of what I'll be doing with this lens in the future! Common Goldeneyes winter in Ottawa by the hundreds. They can sometimes be seen quite close to shore on the Rideau River rapids (when the rest of the river is frozen over). In late winter, they start courting, and Common Goldeneye mating rituals are...quite something.
But today, you get chickadees.
1680x1050 wallpaper
October 23rd, 2008
There's nothing like chickadees to make a nature photographer feel like a million bucks.
They almost seem to be helping you out. "Over here! Me me me! Photograph me. No wait, the light is all wrong. Let me move over there. Okay, here we go. Cheese!"
1680x1050 wallpaper
So I went down to Henry's camera shop today. I learned that there is, in fact, a lens that does 400mm zoom and is in my price range (just). Yay!
I also learned that, dear god, I need steroids to carry that thing. Way too heavy for handheld shooting + my arm strength. Unyay. Since I don't like the idea of having to lug a tripod everywhere, 70-300mm it is. So I (re-)bought it and went down to Mud Lake with it this afternoon. Got lots of distant poor-quality shots of interesting birds (Wood Ducks, Common Goldeneyes, Scaup), and several glorious pictures of chickadees.
I have high hopes of what I'll be doing with this lens in the future! Common Goldeneyes winter in Ottawa by the hundreds. They can sometimes be seen quite close to shore on the Rideau River rapids (when the rest of the river is frozen over). In late winter, they start courting, and Common Goldeneye mating rituals are...quite something.
But today, you get chickadees.
1680x1050 wallpaper
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