[LRflex] Re: Back in the saddle, again!

Glad to hear you are feeling better.  Great eagle shot.  Almost makes me 
want to go out an buy a big lens.

Aram


>From: David Young <telyt@xxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [LRflex] Back in the saddle, again!
>Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 08:17:05 -0800
>
>Jerry Lehrer wrote:
>
> >David and Douglas,
> >
> >Remember, your handicaps are transient and will heal.  They are minor
> >and temporary impediments.  Handicaps are permanent and real.
> >
> >You have my sympathy, which will be withdrawn when you are
> >fully recovered.
> >
> >Jerry
> >
>
>Good Mornin'!
>
>You are right, Jerry... The tribulations Douglas and I are going through =
>
>are minor, compared with those who have more permanent forms of=20
>disabilities.
>
>I thank you for your sympathy... but it can likely be withdrawn now...=20
>for yesterday I was able to lift a camera with 400mm Telyt, without=20
>substantial pain. The prognosis of total cure by Christmas now seems=20
>reasonable.
>
>Yesterday, Rose and I were driving towards Merritt, to do some=20
>pre-Christmas shopping. As we passed Mammette Lake we spotted two bald=20
>eagles in an old dead tree.  Curiously, this is the same tree in which I =
>
>photographed a single Bald Eagle, in the snow, just after last Christmas.=
>
>
>http://www3.telus.net/~telyt/eagle_in_tree.htm
>
>For the last 3 days, the entire area has been socked in by fog...=20
>sometimes we cannot see the houses across the road!  So the light was=20
>poor and the contrast worse.  Temperature was about -6=B0 Celsius  (about=
>=20
>21=B0 Fahrenheit for our American friends) and you can just see the frost=
>=20
>on the tree.  The exposure was 1/250th at f16 (ISO 1600) with the camera =
>
>balanced atop a fence post, for stability.
>
>The LeiCanon's meter was confused by the lighting, and exposed for the=20
>grey sky... everything else was seriously underexposed.  Some serious=20
>manipulations had to be done to get a viable image.
>
>If you're interested, point your browser at   =20
>http://www3.telus.net/~telyt       and then click on Featured Photo.
>
>This is not a shot I'd normally post... simply not good enough. But it=20
>was fun to be back in the saddle again!
>
>Cheers!
>
>--=20
>David Young,
>Logan Lake, BC   =20
>CANADA.=20
>
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