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Archive for January, 2009

January 31, 2009

Cute Little Two-Legged Duck

Cute Little Two-Legged Duck, animal, bolton, brown, Cute Little One-Legged Duck, d40x, duck, feathers, ground, leaves, leg, macro, mjkov, nikon, one, park, sigma, standing

After getting bored of balancing I imagine, the duck felt a little clean was in order.
I thought it was quite a nice sight so I took a shot.

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January 30, 2009

Cute Little One-Legged Duck

Cute Little One-Legged Duck, sigma, macro, nikon, d40x, mjkov, bolton, animal, park, duck, one, leg, standing, brown, feathers, ground, leaves

It’s not one legged for a start, so don’t feel sorry for it. It was just practicing it’s balancing I think.
Quite a difficult spot actually, it really blended in with the ground beneath it and the little plant to the side didn’t help so some selective desaturation I think helped bring the bird into focus a little better.

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January 29, 2009

Blue Tit Resting

Blue Tit Resting, 180mm, bird, Blue Tit Landing, d40x, feathers, feeder, feeding, garden, macro, mjkov, nikon, seeds, sigma, small, table, visitor, yellow

This is a follow on photo from the Landing Blue Tit:

Normally the little thing would stop moving as it came and grabbed some seeds before flying away, so when it paused for a split second I was firing the shutter away. This was the best I managed to get. If you’ve shot Blue Tits before perhaps you will understand how fidgety they are!!

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January 28, 2009

Blue Tit landing

Blue Tit Landing, sigma, 180mm, macro, garden, visitor, bird, small, feeder, feeding, table, seeds, yellow, feathers, mjkov, nikon, d40x

IT’S BEEN A LONG TIME.
But I’m back-ish.

I’ll be uploading photos I’ve been wanting to share for a long time over the coming weeks.
I’ve had a rough time through Winter, I was ill a lot and was swamped with work and alsorts but finally I have a week free and I decided to spend it bringing you dontdopea-ians up to speed.

So let’s get straight back to it:
Taken with my Sigma 180mm Macro. Set up on a tripod and remote released the shutter from indoors.
All the small birds that visit the back garden are easily spooked!
Blue tits proved to be the twitchiest birds that visit the feeders. Barely stopping for a second, as this photo demonstrates…

Some minor noise reduction, it was overcast so some sharpening was required.

Side Note: While I was sat on the step by the back door waiting for some birds to come visit, above me, along the edge of the roof were a battalion of pigeons. I think you can guess how this story ends….

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