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Fun with the Fuji X ___!

spb

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Staff member
Had some fun with the XF200 for the first time in a couple of months. Egyptian Geese, very colourful and a bit different than the ubiquitous Canada Geese, on the Regents Canal, in Camden Town, London (England). X-T4, XF200f2+TC1.4x.

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What a wonderful pose for you to shoot. Great shot, with a great lens!
 

Bugleone

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Brilliant Louis!....These repay careful study,....the magpie wings now explained why they are so 'flashy'....the flight feathers are two-tone! The gull beaks are open, presumably for increased air intake, otherwise they are very aeorodynamic, undercarriage neatly stowed!
 

biglouis

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Brilliant Louis!....These repay careful study,....the magpie wings now explained why they are so 'flashy'....the flight feathers are two-tone! The gull beaks are open, presumably for increased air intake, otherwise they are very aeorodynamic, undercarriage neatly stowed!
Thanks! Gulls are so common that people don't always appreciate what consummate flyers, they are. I think the beak is open in this photo because the gull is squawking a warning signal to its chick who was also flying around - not that a Magpie could do it much danger. I have seen a lot of activity between gulls and their chicks - in this case the juvenile in the second photo - and to me there appears to be a strong maternal instinct. Of course, all this could explain why there are so many because they breed and nurture so successfully and being excellent flyers they can get to food more easily.

The 'gull wing' is of course the basis for many aircraft designs, as well.

LouisB
 

Shashin

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My wife and I took up a new hobby this summer--target archery. That is our local public range. It gets us out of the house several times a week. For scale, the spotting scope is 18 m (20 yards) from a 40 cm target. This lane lets us shoot up to 45 m or 50 yards. (The good news? After doing photography, archery seem down right cheap and, if you decide you don't like archery, you at least have a nice piece of gear for your zombie apocalypse survival kit (there are so few win-wins today!))
 

MGrayson

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My wife and I took up a new hobby this summer--target archery. That is our local public range. It gets us out of the house several times a week. For scale, the spotting scope is 18 m (20 yards) from a 40 cm target. This lane lets us shoot up to 45 m or 50 yards. (The good news? After doing photography, archery seem down right cheap and, if you decide you don't like archery, you at least have a nice piece of gear for your zombie apocalypse survival kit (there are so few win-wins today!))
The guy who taught me archery was a Green Beret sniper in his youth. Their spotting scope for sniper practice was an 8" Schmidt-Cassegrain :oops: .
 

Shashin

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The guy who taught me archery was a Green Beret sniper in his youth. Their spotting scope for sniper practice was an 8" Schmidt-Cassegrain :oops: .
That's not happenin'. If I used that, I would just lose my arrows... Spatially, my average works out OK, the variance is the problem...
 
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biglouis

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XT4, XF100-400, A grey heron dives from its perch on the refurbished iconic Coal Office chimney in the former Kings Cross Station, London, goods yard with the new build offices of Pancras Square in the background. The bird is aiming for the Camley Street Natural Park which is on the opposite side of the Regents Canal. It must be an amazing sight for workers in the offices to look out of their window and see such a large bird flapping around the area.
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archiM44

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XT4, XF100-400, A grey heron dives from its perch on the refurbished iconic Coal Office chimney in the former Kings Cross Station, London, goods yard with the new build offices of Pancras Square in the background. The bird is aiming for the Camley Street Natural Park which is on the opposite side of the Regents Canal. It must be an amazing sight for workers in the offices to look out of their window and see such a large bird flapping around the area.
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