thorp perrow today

I'm most impressed by that flying Owl William, I took twenty shots and they were all blurred or out of focus, I must try harder . The ripple experiment has come, nice one.

Ok I've picked some shots for C&C now you have to remember I don't do nature,trees, and things

Image one fungus



trees and water two



more trees taken before the meeting started in the car park image three



more and more trees again taken before the meeting started in the car park image four




Hope you like

James

Well, here we are three days later and I have sifted through my collection and would like to share these two with you

[IMG]http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb316/davem_08/thorpe-perrow-1.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG]http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb316/davem_08/thorpe-perrow-3.jpg[/IMG]

It was good to meet you all. It's nice to be outside with a group of people with a common interest. I think we spend too much time at computers and not enough taking photographs. Computer watching can make you cranky!!

Dave

Excellent photos all around. Wish I could have stayed to the end of the day. So where next?

Well I suppose I'd better upload my contribution, but dont get excited.

Ken pointed out this flying wotsits otherwise I'd have missed it, I'm not going to say what it is with my track record of getting them mixed up

[IMG]http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j168/impotentspider/_IGP6664a.jpg[/IMG]

There were just too many Raptors to choose from, and far too many to remember the names of them all, I thought the plumage on this one was really nice.

[IMG]http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j168/impotentspider/_K208609a.jpg[/IMG]

And the shot that doesn't quite deserve to be here but it is the BEST flying shot out of the dozens I took

[IMG]http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j168/impotentspider/_K208673a.jpg[/IMG]

It's a red one!.....my flying shots are not worth mentioning!...I had lots of empty frames!...second one's a beauty and the thid one would have been spectacular!...never mind there is always next time!.....Ken

ken what lens did you use on the last image

James

I think you mean Alan....pay attention James

I used the Bigma on both bird shots, the dragonfly was with my 90mm Tamron Macro

sorry alan what is your BIGMA and what f ratting is it

only because I love your shot and my lenses aren't fast lenses f4-5.6 is my fast lens 28-300mm

James

Well James it may surprise you to know this was shot at f8, the light was kind and I managed 1/2000sec.
The "Bigma" is an unofficial name given to the Sigma 50-500mm, this shot was at 310mm.

And for referance the Bigma has (supposedly) a maximum aperture of f6.3 at 500mm though this always shows as f6.7 on Pentax cameras for some strange reason.

thank you KEN !! hee hhe


james
are you going on any shoots with the pentax user ??

my two shots were also taken with a bigma. It's anice lens but it is light greedy and heavy. Still can't have evrything can we? If we had the perfect equipment photography would be like F1 racing - boring!!

Dave

My shots are in my portfolio (gallery) ,as I haven't mastered the art of putting them in the thread!......

Some great shots all round - I am particularly impressed with the close ups of the birds and dragonflies - looks like I need to investigate a bigma

Ken - just had a look at your gallery - impressive - what lens did you use for the dragonflies

Graham - I like your shot of the ripple - came out better than my attempt