Love this guy Doug; Kingfishers are one of my favorite critters and you've done justice to him/her. There's a few around these parts, but I've never been anywhere near close enough for a shot. Excellent, sigh, as always. GaryP > Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 06:15:29 -0800> From: wildlightphoto@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; leica@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: IMG: Belted Kingfisher> > The belted Kingfisher is notoriously > difficult to get close to. I used a blind for this photo, and made liberal > use of Photoshop's cropping tools.> > Now that I know where the bird's > favorite perches are I can set up the blind closer to teh perch, and with a > better background. For now, this is what I've got:> > > http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/alcedinidae/beki03.html> > technical > stuff: R8/DMR @ISO 400> 280mm f/4 APO with 1.4x APO-Extender-R> tripod & > blind> > All comments welcome.> > > Doug Herr> Sacramento> > http://www.wildlightphoto.com> > > > > =========================================================> To Unsubscribe: > Send email to leica-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject > field. The acknowledgment that you then receive MUST be replied to per > instructions. You may also log in to the Web interface to unsubscribe.