kingfishers part two

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kingfishers part two

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kingfishers aree my favorit birds

kingfisher`s lives alone , however , there are several months in a year they like each other

from march till september they started a family

what is the beginning???????

first the male kingfisher look for a female kingfisher ,and try to give her a fish
you can see if the fish , is for himself or for his future wife
normal when he is eating a fish , the head come`s first , when the fish is for his future wife , than he has the fish by his tail
if the female fingfisher accept his "gift " than the are married

here four tree picture`s of this story

picture one
he is looking fore a wife

picture two
she accept his gift

picture tree
she is eating his gift , and this is very special , the male kingfisher look to the sky
he do this once a year , this means , he is now THE MAN anh he has a wife

picture four
no she`s gone , and he`s biginning to shased her , you can see he`s started , and you can see the scales off the fish on his beak

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unfortunately there was not enough light for getting both birds sharp

greatings
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Thats great. thepictures are good and the story makes it all very cool. Of course if they were human he would have to bring a fish home every day.
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:D Excellent shots, excellent series, excellent story... and last but not least, excellent Gustav. :D
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Fantastic shots Gustav, and a wildlife lesson to boot :D The colours are just amazing in those shots. I have never seen more appealing shots of Kingfishers.
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What a good lesson with these stunningly sharp pictures! With the two birds in the frame it presented a difficulty, but I think the results are acceptable. Maybe you could set the branch out perpendicular to your line of sight so that two birds at their wedding might fall into the same depth of field together.
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KevinBarrett wrote:What a good lesson with these stunningly sharp pictures! With the two birds in the frame it presented a difficulty, but I think the results are acceptable. Maybe you could set the branch out perpendicular to your line of sight so that two birds at their wedding might fall into the same depth of field together.
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here another tree

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Hi Gustav,

Congratulations! :D I'm surprised that a publisher or a writer of children's books haven't approached you with a proposition of using your excellent story-telling photos in one of their books (even text books). A story could easily be imagined around these photos for the kids and because the birds are so cute and vividly-coloured kids would love it.

Or you could start writing your book around these photos...no need to wait for anyone else. :D

They are all nice

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aster wrote:Hi Gustav,

Congratulations! :D I'm surprised that a publisher or a writer of children's books haven't approached you with a proposition of using your excellent story-telling photos in one of their books (even text books). A story could easily be imagined around these photos for the kids and because the birds are so cute and vividly-coloured kids would love it.

Or you could start writing your book around these photos...no need to wait for anyone else. :D

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I wouldn't mind such a book for adults. :D
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Absolutely awesome Gustav! You have experienced a very unique event and then captured it stunningly well.
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I don't think I'm going to get tired of looking at these anytime soon...great stuff.
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Very beautiful photographs. Myself saw the kingfisher several times but never came so close to take photographs like yours. Very fine indeed.

You must have had a lot of patience to photograph them the way you did.

What lens did you use, what focal length to be precise and from what distance did you take those photographs?

Very nice!! :D
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mschlosser wrote:Very beautiful photographs. Myself saw the kingfisher several times but never came so close to take photographs like yours. Very fine indeed.

You must have had a lot of patience to photograph them the way you did.

What lens did you use, what focal length to be precise and from what distance did you take those photographs?

Very nice!! :D
Hi,

:D We asked Gustav the whole set of these questions when he started the first Kingfisher thread as an other topic and he was kind enough to answer them all accompanied with some explanatory photos of his... He uses the nice telephoto Sony 70-200 G F/2.8 + an appropriately placed tree branch for these photos.

Link to first "Kingfisher" thread:
http://www.photoclubalpha.com/forum/vie ... a&start=15


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My wife loved this story. I read it to her and I think she thought it was a children's book.
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Thank you aster,

I missed these threads completely.

The images on dyxum and here are absolutely fantastic. Never seen anything like it.

Very beautiful Kingfisher Gustav.

:D :D :D :D :D
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