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- Sat Mar 07, 2009 3:54 pm
- Forum: Give it Your Best Shot
- Topic: Some Birds
- Replies: 127
- Views: 37809
Re: Some Birds
Beautiful grey heron Gustav.. excellent capture.. Two of our hornbills Yellowbilled hornbill http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn99/RobbieA_0001/DSC06038Medium.jpg http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn99/RobbieA_0001/PICT20931Medium.jpg Ground Hornbill http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn99/Robbie...
- Sat Mar 07, 2009 1:46 pm
- Forum: Give it Your Best Shot
- Topic: Some Birds
- Replies: 127
- Views: 37809
Re: Some Birds
You are welcome Gustav. It would be a pleasure to have you here. South AFrica has more than 900 different bird species, a great variety for any avian photographer. Thanks Greg. The kingfishers are very small and very very fast.. Here now, gone a minute later... I shoot mainly from hides, there is re...
- Fri Mar 06, 2009 9:45 pm
- Forum: Give it Your Best Shot
- Topic: Some Birds
- Replies: 127
- Views: 37809
Re: Some Birds
Hey Doc, different types of shooting.. Gustav uses a 200mm, his kinfishers are close.. I need to use a 500mm, birds not so close..
Thank you jcoffin.. appreciate your comments..
Thank you jcoffin.. appreciate your comments..
- Fri Mar 06, 2009 1:57 pm
- Forum: Give it Your Best Shot
- Topic: Some Birds
- Replies: 127
- Views: 37809
Re: Some Birds
robbie the MALACHITE KINGFISHER , is one of the birds , i like very wel , and is on my list , to photograph them can you tell me the best place to shoot them???????????? greetings gustav Hello Gustav The Malachite Kingfisher is found all over Africa below the Sahara.. We have them in South Africa a...
- Thu Mar 05, 2009 5:31 pm
- Forum: Lens Lore
- Topic: New Sony lenses
- Replies: 93
- Views: 25692
Re: New Sony lenses
That would be awesome!!! We really need this for avian photography... keeping my fingers crossed..kingfisher wrote:hello everyone
iàm for sure that the new BIG-LENS at PMA is the 500MM F 4,5 SSM G-LENS
greetings
gustav
- Thu Mar 05, 2009 5:22 pm
- Forum: Give it Your Best Shot
- Topic: Some Birds
- Replies: 127
- Views: 37809
- Thu Mar 05, 2009 5:20 pm
- Forum: Give it Your Best Shot
- Topic: Some Birds
- Replies: 127
- Views: 37809
Re: Some Birds
BTW, my passion is Avian photography so I could easily fill this site with pics.. haha Why not start it off then? Rally on! :D :D Yildiz You sure? Don't want to hijack this thread but will post a few more.. http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn99/RobbieA_0001/DSC05908Medium.jpg http://i302.photobuc...
- Thu Mar 05, 2009 2:52 pm
- Forum: Give it Your Best Shot
- Topic: Some Birds
- Replies: 127
- Views: 37809
Re: Some Birds
Some great bird photo's being posted by one and all. Hey Robbie I see you have a bird that looks very similar too one over here, (middle photo) called a bush stone-curlew or weeloo here, I wonder if it also has the same eerie night time call. http://www.chappo1.com/bush_stone_curlew.html I thought ...
- Thu Mar 05, 2009 8:10 am
- Forum: Give it Your Best Shot
- Topic: Some Birds
- Replies: 127
- Views: 37809
Re: Some Birds
Taken with the A700 and the SIgma 500mm F4.5 lens
- Mon Mar 02, 2009 4:19 pm
- Forum: Give it Your Best Shot
- Topic: Gustav wins at Dyxum
- Replies: 20
- Views: 6016
Re: Gustav wins at Dyxum
Well done Gustav... a great achievement..
- Thu Feb 26, 2009 9:59 pm
- Forum: Give it Your Best Shot
- Topic: Macro stuff
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1655
Re: Macro stuff
So should we stop posting???Sonolta wrote:I have hundreds of images swiped and hot-linked daily...it's what happens when you post your images to the internet.
-Sonolta
- Thu Feb 26, 2009 9:48 pm
- Forum: Give it Your Best Shot
- Topic: Macro stuff
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1655
Re: Macro stuff
HAd images of mine stolen recently.. so now my name will be large.. hehe.. nobody can say they didnt see it.. was overcast and just after a storm.. this contributed to the colours..
- Thu Feb 26, 2009 9:30 pm
- Forum: Give it Your Best Shot
- Topic: Macro stuff
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1655
Macro stuff
Got the 105 out again.. what you think? http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn99/RobbieA_0001/DSC076202Medium.jpg http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn99/RobbieA_0001/DSC076142Medium.jpg http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn99/RobbieA_0001/DSC075873Medium.jpg (Made some changes by cropping my name out)
- Mon Feb 02, 2009 9:08 am
- Forum: Give it Your Best Shot
- Topic: Macro Images
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3779
Re: Macro Images
Tony and Greg, seems like the cricket didn't quite go your way!! Our team came home to a heroes welcome on Saturday!!!
- Mon Jan 26, 2009 7:13 pm
- Forum: Welcome and well met!
- Topic: Hi from Edinburgh
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3590
Re: Hi from Edinburgh
Haha, and who might that be?Dusty wrote:, although the most vociferous poster just tendered his resignation, so you may be spared.