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Rolled it over!

Rolled it over!

Rolled it over!
Originally uploaded by eclectic echoes.

This is picture 10,000 on my EOS10D! Actually it’s a 100% crop into that image. Of course it figures it would be an image like this. I was tracking this beautiful Great Egret (Ardea albus) flying along the estuary with an eel in it’s beak. Unfortunately as I snapped this shot I tracked right into a bush in between us. Oh,well… there are other shots of this series to be posted soon. Still a keeper if for nothing else than the fact it’s number 10,000. Come to think of it, we have only put 1,500 miles on the car in the same two years! Maybe I should trade in the car for some new lenses and a GPS…I’d get more use out of them than the car! If puplic transportation here was like it is in most of Europe I’d be able to do it in a heartbeat, but as it is I think my wife would object.

Emerald Eyed Cormorant

Double Breasted Cormorant

Emerald Eyed Cormorant
Originally uploaded by eclectic echoes.

A double breasted cormorant in the Mystic Estuary, Mystic, CT. Taken while checking the performance of a new 400mm lens. Pretty nice, but it is going to be mostly manual focusing. The autofocus is too slow for wildlife shots (unless it’s a nest site or some such). This shot actually is with the 400 and a 1.4x teleconverter. So a 560mm shot or an 896mm shot on a standard 35mm system with the cameras 1.6 multiplier. (I do like that multiplier for this type of shot!)

Osprey Watching

Osprey Watching
Originally uploaded by eclectic echoes.

This was shot with a 70-200 and a 2x and 1.4x teleconverter. Not the ideal combination (soft) but it does give me reach I don’t have otherwise.

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