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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
07-08-2019, 07:44 AM
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Thanks for commenting Tim
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
07-08-2019, 07:31 AM
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Our crown land campsite was covered with them yesterday. I doubt I got photos of the same insect twice.
OK> maybe the second and third, where he stayed put long enough for me to move around and get different angles.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
09-04-2018, 01:23 PM
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I was just trying to explain ants farming aphids to Tess the other day.. how timely. Although she seems remarkably unimpressed. Oh well. I'm impressed, one out of two is pretty good.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
07-31-2018, 08:36 AM
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Eastern Comma Moth on Pansies
K-3 and DA 55-300 PLM
ISO 200, ƒ6.3, AV
 2018=07-301-pansiy-moth-1 by Norm Head, on Flickr
 2018=07-301-pansiy-moth-2 by Norm Head, on Flickr
 2018=07-301-pansiy-moth-3 by Norm Head, on Flickr
 2018=07-301-pansiy-moth-4 by Norm Head, on Flickr
 2018=07-301-pansiy-moth-5 by Norm Head, on Flickr
It really does feel like cheating using this lens. It's 300mm, but it's light and easy to carry, with nice balance on the camera. It's sharp enough for close ups, Pentax engineers seem to have figured out exactly where sharpness becomes an issue and designed to that spec. The speed of AF and quietness i pretty much unmatched. With a bit tighter tolerances in the glass elements, this lens could have even more lights out than it is. But fast accurate auto focus makes up for a lot.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
07-17-2018, 12:50 PM
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It's awesome for photographers, but you're right, you don't want to go with non-photographers. You also aren't supposed to take a tripod, but they allowed me to use mine as a monopod. I just wasn't allowed to spread the legs out
Same with Bird Kingdom. You need to go with other photographers if you want company. The time I went with my grandkids I got two shots.
IN Niagara Falls, if you park at Duffering Islands (for free) and walk down to the falls, you'll probably see 15 species if not more along the river on the way to the falls.
I still can't believe I didn'tt get back there. I had a free place to stay in Niagara Falls with my step son, for 8 years, and we stayed there at least 2 weeks a year. I went once with the K-3 and 60-250, and never went back. Since then I acquired the a K-3 a K-1, A Tamorn 300 2.8, the 1.7x TC, the 1.4 TC, and my DA*200, and I never went back with better equipment. It was always on the list, I just never got to it.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
07-13-2018, 07:13 AM
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From my afternoon walk, 18,000 fitbit steps.
K-3 and DA*60-250 with HD DA 1.4 TC.
 2018-07-12-insects-9 by Norm Head, on Flickr
 2018-07-12-insects-8 by Norm Head, on Flickr
 2018-07-12-insects-7 by Norm Head, on Flickr
 2018-07-12-insects-6 by Norm Head, on Flickr
 2018-07-12-insects-5 by Norm Head, on Flickr
 2018-07-12-insects-4 by Norm Head, on Flickr
 2018-07-12-insects-3 by Norm Head, on Flickr
I don't know what this is, I suspect some kind of wasp, but if it catches and eats horse flies it's OK with me.
 2018-07-12-insects-2 by Norm Head, on Flickr
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
07-10-2018, 08:17 AM
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They are cropped more than I Like, but using a DA* lens that usually doesn't hurt you much.
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
07-09-2018, 07:57 AM
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June 19, 2015, I was walking into the Algonquin Park visitors centre, the railings for some reason were covered with moths. Even park staff was coming out for pictures. It only happened once, I decided I needed to go back and find the images for this thread.
 2015-06-19-moths-9 by Norm Head, on Flickr
 2015-06-19-moths-8 by Norm Head, on Flickr
 2015-06-19-moths-7 by Norm Head, on Flickr
 2015-06-19-moths-4 by Norm Head, on Flickr
 2015-06-19-moths-3 by Norm Head, on Flickr
 2015-06-19-moths-5 by Norm Head, on Flickr
 2015-06-19-moths-6 by Norm Head, on Flickr
 2015-06-19-moths-1 by Norm Head, on Flickr
 2015-06-19-moths-2 by Norm Head, on Flickr
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Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories
08-08-2015, 09:58 AM
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I went out to get pictures of bees, but got wasps instead.... you just can't control who's there when you are, a half our earlier when I was watering the garden, it was full of bees.
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