20D GETS CLOSE !

One old adage about photography suggests that you should
always try to "get closer." One way to do that is to use a
long lens. Another way is to actually get close to your subject.

So with that in mind I took these pics this morning.


http://www.pbase.com/bret/image/81673036/original


http://www.pbase.com/bret/image/81673031


http://www.pbase.com/bret/image/81673033


http://www.pbase.com/bret/image/81673034


http://www.pbase.com/bret/image/81673035


http://www.pbase.com/bret/image/81673254


-Annika ----- loves having the whole day off !!!

Annika1980 wrote:
One old adage about photography suggests that you should
always try to "get closer." One way to do that is to use a
long lens. Another way is to actually get close to your subject.

So with that in mind I took these pics this morning.


http://www.pbase.com/bret/image/81673036/original


http://www.pbase.com/bret/image/81673031


http://www.pbase.com/bret/image/81673033


http://www.pbase.com/bret/image/81673034


Is that one of those red spider mites hitching a ride?



http://www.pbase.com/bret/image/81673035


http://www.pbase.com/bret/image/81673254


-Annika ----- loves having the whole day off !!!



--
jer
email reply - I am not a 'ten'

"Annika1980" wrote in message
ups.com...
One old adage about photography suggests that you should
always try to "get closer." One way to do that is to use a
long lens. Another way is to actually get close to your subject.

So with that in mind I took these pics this morning.


http://www.pbase.com/bret/image/81673036/original
http://www.pbase.com/bret/image/81673031
http://www.pbase.com/bret/image/81673033
http://www.pbase.com/bret/image/81673034
http://www.pbase.com/bret/image/81673035
http://www.pbase.com/bret/image/81673254

Wow - great pix, Annika.

BTW - Is "spikeless" a picture of the same heron, sans spike?

--
Mike Russell - www.curvemeister.com

Mike wrote on Wed, 04 Jul 2007 21:31:34 GMT:

MR "Annika1980" wrote in message
MR
ups.com...
?? One old adage about photography suggests that you should
?? always try to "get closer." One way to do that is to use
?? a long lens. Another way is to actually get close to your
?? subject.
??
?? So with that in mind I took these pics this morning.
??
?? http://www.pbase.com/bret/image/81673036/original
?? http://www.pbase.com/bret/image/81673031
?? http://www.pbase.com/bret/image/81673033
?? http://www.pbase.com/bret/image/81673034
?? http://www.pbase.com/bret/image/81673035
?? http://www.pbase.com/bret/image/81673254

MR Wow - great pix, Annika.

MR BTW - Is "spikeless" a picture of the same heron, sans
MR spike?

Really neat pictures! Remarkable lens! How close did you get?

James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

E-mail, with obvious alterations:
not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not

Annika1980 wrote:
One old adage about photography suggests that you should
always try to "get closer." One way to do that is to use a
long lens. Another way is to actually get close to your subject.

So with that in mind I took these pics this morning.


http://www.pbase.com/bret/image/81673036/original


http://www.pbase.com/bret/image/81673031


http://www.pbase.com/bret/image/81673033


http://www.pbase.com/bret/image/81673034


http://www.pbase.com/bret/image/81673035


http://www.pbase.com/bret/image/81673254


-Annika ----- loves having the whole day off !!!

As I have come to expect from you--Great Pictures!
Allen

On Jul 4, 3:39 pm, Annika1980 wrote:

Bret this guy:

http://www.pbase.com/bret/image/81673031

Is actually a watercress sharpshooter:

http://www.pbase.com/sirchandestroy/image/45142779

Noce shot - I haven't seen any in a long time...and very hard to shoot
as they don't stay still - always jutting out of frame, behind the
stem, limb, branch, leaf, whatever.

On Jul 4, 6:43 pm, Ben Miller wrote:
On Jul 4, 3:39 pm, Annika1980 wrote:

Bret this guy:

http://www.pbase.com/bret/image/81673031

Is actually a watercress sharpshooter:

http://www.pbase.com/sirchandestroy/image/45142779

Noce shot - I haven't seen any in a long time...and very hard to shoot
as they don't stay still - always jutting out of frame, behind the
stem, limb, branch, leaf, whatever.


Yeah, that's exactly what he was doing. I had to put my hand on the
other side of the stem to get him to come around.

On Jul 4, 6:14 pm, BaumBadier wrote:


Nothing worse than flash used for macro-photography to destroy the image. They
might as well have been taken in a staged lab setting with dead specimens.


If they were dead then I wouldn't have needed the flash.
Without flash you are talking about long exposure times. Not such a
good idea when shooting handheld and your subject is on a leaf.

Oh yeah, here's a weather tip:
If you are ever sweating on a hot, humid day just get out the super
macro lens and try shooting bugs or flowers. It is guaranteed to make
the wind blow a nice steady breeze.

On Jul 4, 6:43 pm, Ben Miller wrote:
On Jul 4, 3:39 pm, Annika1980 wrote:

Bret this guy:
Is actually a watercress sharpshooter:

http://www.pbase.com/sirchandestroy/image/45142779


Very Rockwellian. Ken, not Norman.

On Jul 4, 10:40 pm, Annika1980 wrote:
On Jul 4, 6:43 pm, Ben Miller wrote:

On Jul 4, 3:39 pm, Annika1980 wrote:

Bret this guy:
Is actually a watercress sharpshooter:

http://www.pbase.com/sirchandestroy/image/45142779

Very Rockwellian. Ken, not Norman.

It was a very early effort for me. Though I daresay the truth is
somewhere in the middle of our shots...