thanks for the comments. 13 is a golden mantled ground squirrel. #20 are
white pelicans. i am told that the four birds in 21 are dowitchers, probably
long-billed. i don't know most of my shore birds, so i have been asking
experts about the location. i realized as i was looking at the gallery while
at work that the images appear much more saturated than the working files
do. i converted them from ProPhoto RGB to sRGB for the web and that may be
part of the problem. the printouts are less saturated.
i have some photos of a Swainson's Hawk and a white pelican in flight, but
keeping focus on a flying bird moving across my FOV on a 400/5.6 with the
1.7X extender on the *istD was essentially impossible. i wasn't able to
bring my 400/2.8 with me and so i was stuck doing manual focus. it's not
good enough even when the bird's motion is fairly even. my manual focus was
very good, but not good enough. with the 400/2.8, i might have had a chance,
but the *istD does continuous AF only on the center sensor.
Herb....
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Sullivan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 12, 2005 6:23 PM
Subject: Re: GESO: Southwestern Alberta
Herb,
Especially like
#13, the ground squirrel,
#16, the landscape with trees in the valley below the tall mountain -
composition!
#20, the 4 pelicans(?) - color and
#21, the 4 shore birds (hard to do 4 of anything, but these last 2 work)
