Old Coot

Some pictures I took after a couple of visits recently to a local lake. These were all taken with a GX10 using a Sigma 70-300mm APO DG lens at 300mm:










Comments more than welcome

No. 1 for me i love the colour especially the water Great shot.

No. 3 could do with some cropping don't you think. Is that a species of Kingfisher :

I'd've cropped the Kingfisher too, but I am simply jealous of anyone who gets a shot of a Kingfisher perching. The only times I've seen one (when I had a camera in my hand) was an electric blue streak vanishing at the speed of light!

Thanks

I would normally crop that picture too Most of my photo's are used as backgrounds for my monitor which is 1920*1200 and that's why I left it so wide

We visited a new lake not far from where we live, apparently there are bitterns there, but I was amazed to see the kingfisher. I was in a hide about 20 metres from it. The people who maintain the hide put sticks in the ground around the lake which they like to stand on.

A few days before I went to the lake with a bigma and actually got shots of a kingfisher returning with a fish and battering it against the stick that it perched on and then swallowed it. I also discovered that day (when I got home) that my nice shiny new bigma had a severe noise and IQ problem and the pictures look horrible

That's why I went back with the 70-300mm to try again

Splendid shots, and a tribute to the lens. I shall have to be more polite about Sigmas in future.

G

A bit early to be that sozzled surely George?!?

Dan

That was also my first thought!

You jammy sod!

I'm an old coot myself and have only ever seen one Kingfisher in my life and I didn't even get a blurred pic

I guess I'd better not post the 10 or so other shots I got the same day of one