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You have my sympathy, which will be withdrawn when you are 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 but it can likely be withdrawn now...=20 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 > >Personal Web-site at: http://www3.telus.net/~telyt >Leica Reflex Forum web-page: http://www3.telus.net/~telyt/lrflex.htm > > >------ >Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: > http://www3.telus.net/~telyt/lrflex.htm >Archives are at: > www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/ _________________________________________________________________ Don?t just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/ ------ Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: http://www3.telus.net/~telyt/lrflex.htm Archives are at: www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/