One thing for sure: Our mascot is NOT a beautiful bird, even when expertly photographed.
Rick > On Jul 14, 2018, at 6:41 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > PESO: PDML discussion > > https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/43363009902/in/album-72157669137217797/ > > > I'm finally back from my trip North. What was supposed to be a relatively > short trip for a tango event and then visiting became a lot more complicated > as things came up and we had to come up with new living arrangements for my > mom. > > I'm starting in on my huge backlog of photos. Today, I tackled my wildlife > photos. > > Here is my fauna album: > > https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157669137217797 > > Comments and suggestion are always appreciated. > > Here are a bunch more photos of critters that I liked but not quite as much > as the ones above: > https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157693255549880 > > Some of them are technically challenged, but still fun, like the ones of what > I think are kingbirds dive bombing a bald eagle. I ran into some issues at > SNWR with the flange mount of my bigma coming a bit loose. > > > Here are some flower pictures: > https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157693251449550 > > I learned a few things that might come in handy on future trips: > > A lot of birds (mostly cormorants) nest under the Yaquina Bay Bridge in > Newport. I had hoped to go back when the light wasn't quite so harsh, but > that was one of many things I wasn't able to get to on this trip. > > A Dodge van is very suboptinal for the car tour of the Sacramento National > Wildlife Refuge. It turns out that you aren't allowed out of your car except > in a few spots there, even in the summer when there aren't many skittish > birds around. I'd like to go back in a convertible so that I'm not trying to > take photos while hanging out of the driver's window. > > > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] http://red4est.com/lrc > https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/collections/72157612824732477/ > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
