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:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:.......... Including some birds! Bart surely would like to know if you used eye-af? :shocked:
ETA my smilies are broken
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:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:.......... Including some birds! Bart surely would like to know if you used eye-af? :shocked:
Terrific photo K-H of a bird that often gets little respect. Question: Was your E-M5 on a tripod or monopod when you took this photo? I'm asking because I have a friend who recently acquired a APO-Telyt-R 280/4 with the APO 1.4x extender. I've been encouraging him to try his longer R lenses on his GX-8 and take advantage of the IBIS. He mostly uses the R lenses on his M-P 240 with the auxiliary EVF.Here is an image of an American Robin, one of my favorite images.
It was taken with the OM-D E-M5, APO-Telyt-R 280/4, and APO-Extender-R 2x.
Thanks Gary for the feedback. Much appreciated.Terrific photo K-H of a bird that often gets little respect. Question: Was your E-M5 on a tripod or monopod when you took this photo? I'm asking because I have a friend who recently acquired a APO-Telyt-R 280/4 with the APO 1.4x extender. I've been encouraging him to try his longer R lenses on his GX-8 and take advantage of the IBIS. He mostly uses the R lenses on his M-P 240 with the auxiliary EVF.
Gary
How amazing must that be to hear the cranes but not see them.
Presumably by the time you hear them they are not there any more!.
Time for a refreshment, after K-H's photos from hot NM ... sunset in Russia ... pecularity : temperature under -25°C and the E-M1 endured for more than an hour ...
(panoramic merge in Lightroom of 5 shots)
C U,
Rafael
We have cranes on our fields in Russia, K-H, in summertime ... many people talk about them, few have seen them in reality, but I was lucky one morning in July 2015 to run into them and have my E-M1 in the car ... here they are ...Thanks gandolfi. That question has a complicated answer.
Basically the Sandhill cranes glide from thermal to thermal in which they soar to tremendous heights.
Also with the right weather, partially sunny for strong thermals with a good back wind, they zip by our house in no time at all.
So ideally I need to catch them above our house when they are pretty low in a thermal.
Then one can get shots in which they approach, circle around, and depart - all very distinctive visually.
Here is a schematic map of our area.
At our location the flat area between the Rio Grande Canyon and the Jemez Mountains stretches over about 10 miles.
Our house is in White Rock about 1.5 miles from the river.
Depending on where the thermals are the cranes can utilize that entire area.
Unless the cranes fly near my house I won't even notice them.
The migrating geese stay typically very close to the river and can be observed from the canyon rim.
BTW, my neighbor just let me know that yesterday she noticed the first cranes heading north. That's pretty early for them.
It only takes the cranes a few hours to fly from the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge south of Albuquerque past our location.
Thanks gandolfi. That question has a complicated answer.
Basically the Sandhill cranes glide from thermal to thermal in which they soar to tremendous heights.
Also with the right weather, partially sunny for strong thermals with a good back wind, they zip by our house in no time at all.
K-H,
Grateful thanks for all the info, the map, and all the great pics of the large pots.
Didn't realise it was all so close to Los Alamos, all hush-hush 70 odd years ago. Wonder if Oppenheimer and Feynman et al spent time crane watching!!
I did a short gliding holiday at the London Gliding Club in 1960 and went for a ride in a thermal up to 3,000 feet above Whipsnade Zoo, listening to the sounds from down below. We were winch launched up to about 900 feet and did mainly circuits and bumps and some hill soaring too. Four days of tremendous fun.
Here, in an old tub like this, a Slingsby T21. (iPad shot of two old postcards from the gandolfi archives)