"Small blue kingfisher with a catch"
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21st August 2011, 04:04 AM #1
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small blue kingfisher with a catch
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21st August 2011, 05:31 AM #2
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Re: small blue kingfisher with a catch
Beautiful work! Sharp and nice colors.
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21st August 2011, 05:40 AM #3
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Re: small blue kingfisher with a catch
Jitendra:
That is a REALLY NICE photo! Congrats!
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21st August 2011, 07:43 AM #4
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Re: small blue kingfisher with a catch
That's a great catch! From you and the bird
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21st August 2011, 11:50 AM #5
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Re: small blue kingfisher with a catch
Anyone who can capture a kingfisher in any pose deserves my utmost admiration but this one gets a double helping
Great stuff!
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21st August 2011, 03:07 PM #6Moderator
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Re: small blue kingfisher with a catch
Agreed,
Originally Posted by KeithH
Anyone who can capture a kingfisher in any pose deserves my utmost admiration but this one gets a double helping Great stuff!
Jitendra,
What is the secret?
Is it to find a spot where you know they frequent/feed and wait patiently?
Thanks,
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21st August 2011, 03:30 PM #7
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Re: small blue kingfisher with a catch
Wow...great capture!!!
Chuck
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21st August 2011, 04:43 PM #8
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Re: small blue kingfisher with a catch
I'll second that. Originally Posted by kaneohebud
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21st August 2011, 08:25 PM #9
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Re: small blue kingfisher with a catch
Superb shot. I'm a member at the famous (in the wildfowl world) Slimbridge Widlfowl & Wetlands trust and they created a habitat for kingfishers but the hide is just too far away to get a decent shot without cropping it to death-even the guy next to me with a 500mm prime was struggling. I managed one reasonable shot but the exif shows 28mm so I think I must have digiscoped it-I don't do that any longer. I settled for just watching through binoculars as the male and female were feeding their offspring down the nest hole in the river bank.
Here it is..Hopefully, I can find a better location one day.As you see,getting a sharp image wasn't achieved... digiscoping requires a different skills set to regular photography and in one magazine I read- 'either do digiscoping or normal photography but not both'
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22nd August 2011, 01:17 AM #10
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Re: small blue kingfisher with a catch
thanks everybody for your comments....
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22nd August 2011, 02:52 AM #11
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Re: small blue kingfisher with a catch
That is a very nice photo of a very interesting bird!
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