[bobbotron]

A raku pot my mother made a number of years ago, shot with my excellent K3 + the 35mm DFA and some cactus strobes.

[RICHARD L.]

[RICHARD L.]

[Geodude]

Take your pick. A dime a dozen...

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[normhead]

From the last few days....
K-3 and DA 10-17, and DA 55-300 PLM, and Optio W90

We walked down the ld logginraod to our favourite crown land campsite.


We didn't go there all last year. Someone borrowed our picnic table and left it uncovered. I don't mind people using my stuff, but why can't they put it back the way they found it?


Yesterday on the afternoon dog walk.




A fisheye of an immature forest. Clear cut 40 years ago and still not even half way back.


Fisheye Tia


Fisheye Jesse and Tripper


With the Optio W90
Our boats re waiting and ready to go.


Someone built a fire pit. Our campsite is on the top left.

[Aaron28]

got to try out my monopod with ball head wasn't as awkward as I thought.....K-3ii....sigma 150-500os

[normhead]

K-3 and Tamron 300 2.8 with the F 1.7x AF adapter.

We've notice this little meadow that seems to be some kind of bird sanctuary right behind out house. Yesterday I was out looking for the Broad-winged Hawk that's Tess photographed yesterday.


She took this image with the DA 55-300 PLM, and I thought, "maybe an opportunity to get out the heavy glass."

SO I bundle everything up, and position myself in line of site of the suspected nest. The hawk passed over but very high and very quiclkly. But meanwhile sitting in my chair, I kept hearing "knock knock knock" It was this guy.



I was still kind of far away, so I gave up on the Hawk, picked up my huge camera bag (big enough for the 300 2.8) tripod, K-3 with 60-250 and chair and moved 20 meters to get a better angle.


Better but still kind of far away.

There seemed to be some activity at a tree behind my back. It looked pretty ordinary, but there kept being birds around it.


It didn't take long before I decided to forget the hawk and move closer.


The above is one of my "make sure you get something before you try for the whole enchilada" images.

So then I sort of half tucked into some cover as close as I could get to the tree. From here, I got clear images of where the Sapsuckers had tapped the tree. I could also see that the discolouration on the tree was actually sugar maple sap that had run out of the tap holes and discoloured the bark, and made it quite wet. If you look close you can see actual globs of sap near the tap holes.

Male Yellowbellied Sapsucker, (red throat).


Female Yellowbellied Sapsucker (white throat).


Altogether there were four. They seemed to have a cycle, sucking up the new sap dripping down the tree, then flying away (probably to another food source) and coming back after the sap had had a chance to run a bit more.


Surprisingly (at least for me) I also saw Chickadees and Nuthates drinking sap from the holes made by the Sapsuckers..


While there I also saw a pair of Purple Finches, a yellow rumped warbler couple and way up in the air the hawk, as well as the aforementioned Sapsuckers, Chikadees and Nuthatches. I saw almost as many species as I did shooting from my blind at my feeders.

It's like a mini bird sanctuary in there.

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Last edited by normhead; 05-11-2020 at 07:17 AM.

[Hayashi]

K3 + HD DA20-40mm Limited

[normhead]

K-3 and Tamron 300 2.8 with F 1.7x AF adapter













DA 55-300 with HD DA 1.4 TC

[Erictator]

K-3 and Tamron 300 2.8 with F 1.7x AF adapter

1, 3, 7 & 8 are my fave's here Norm. What is really interesting is how well the DA zoom does with that 1.4x, as long as you can give it enough light it really is surprisingly good, even up against the venerable Tamron. The Tammy kicks its butt in Bokeh, but hey, it's still punching way above its weight.
Nice set.
Eric

[normhead]

1, 3, 7 & 8 are my fave's here Norm. What is really interesting is how well the DA zoom does with that 1.4x, as long as you can give it enough light it really is surprisingly good, even up against the venerable Tamron. The Tammy kicks its butt in Bokeh, but hey, it's still punching way above its weight.
Nice set.
Eric

I had just put the Tamron away when he turned up. And lens changes usually scare the bird away, so I had to use what I had available. So I'm pretty pleased with how they came out. And if I had had the Tamron on, framing would have been really tight. I use the Tammy and 1.7 for small birds. I use it by itself or with the 1.4 for bigger birds.This guy was the largest bird I've photographed for a long time. It cruised in behind a fairy big maple tree, and his wings extend out both side of the tree. I couldn't see his body and thought he was vulture coming in. Unfortunately I didn't clear the blind opening with the front element in the final image, causing what appears to be fogging.

[Mike N]

Hiked French Mt. in Lake George, NY, this morning. This is the the location of a battle & siege of the British Fort William Henry by the French during the French & Indian war in 1757 and made famous from the book & movie "The Last of the Mohicans"

Brought my Pentax K-3 with a Pentax 18-135 wr, Russian TAIR-3S and a Promaster Spectrum 7 1.7x teleconverter. Had peanut butter & jelly sandwiches for breakfast at the summit.

Lake George Pentax 18-135 iso 400 8.0 1-1600s


Pentax 18-135mm iso400 8.0 1-2000s


Russian TAIR-3S 300mm =450mm iso400 8.0 1-800s


Fort William Henry TAIR-3S with Promaster Spectrum 7 1.7X = 750mm iso400 8.0 1-250s


TAIR-3S Promaster 1.7X = 750mm iso400 8.0 1-320s


Pentax 18-135 wr iso400 8.0 1-1500s

[RICHARD L.]

[normhead]

Every image I take with tat DA 55-300 surprises me. Why wasn't it around when I was shooting 12 years ago?

[tuggie76]

Mother and new born foal.