Canon Thursday Photo 2011: #31

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Happy Thursday everyone! It has been quite hot here in southern Indiana/northern Kentucky lately, but the hummingbirds are in full swing. They are always the most numerous and active this time of year and I love it. I borrowed some flashes and transmitters to try to get a few decent shots of the Ruby Throated Hummers that are in our yard. Here's the result. Let's see some more of those great photos!<br>

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<p><img src="http://spirer.com/abigailrehearsal2011/content/images/large/_57P3855.jpg" alt="" width="792" height="594" /><br /> <em>Casey. Some people are concerned that the tongue may be stuck like that, but I don't think so.</em></p>

<p>Canon 7D, EF 500mm f/4L IS and EF 1.4x TC at ISO 800, f/8 and 1/1600-sec, hand-held. Nest, just West of Silverthorne, CO</p>

<p><strong>Osprey landing</strong>:</p>

<p><a title="Duck...no... osprey. by dcstep, on Flickr" href=" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6137/5991668637_53fc3dc702_z.jpg" alt="Duck...no... osprey." width="640" height="427" /></a></p>

<p>I didn't have a chance to get out and shoot this week, so here's one from the previous weekend when we toured some mills in northern Virginia. Beverley Mill is now only a ruin - but a beautiful one with nature now mixing with the wonderful stacked stone walls. This is a 5-shot HDR image - the dynamic range was just going to be too much without that.</p>

<p>And now, the image</p><div></div>

<p>Three guinea pigs girls. 7D, 100/2.8L IS, ISO 6400, 1/50 sec, f/5.0</p><div></div>

<p>6 weeks 'til Round-Up</p><div></div>

<p>Rebel T1i, 60mm Macro</p><div></div>

<p>Colors and shapes</p><div></div>

<p>Need new passports for the kids. Loathed to pay someone else to take their passport shots, so did it myself. This was a close crop of the image we selected. 5d, 85mm 1.2L @f16. He was sat on a stool in front of our shower cubicle in the bathroom, so I could reverse bounce my flash in a small white environment and get bright diffuse lighting. My wife hates the shot, say he looks like some kind of criminal rugby player, but I like the starkness of it. I have printed a 17" x 22" version and have it hanging in my cube at work.</p>

<p>rgds,<br>

james</p><div></div>

<p>Dirty aperture blades on my Jupiter 37A</p><div></div>

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<p>say he looks like some kind of criminal rugby player</p>

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<p>Always my goal, but with my bald head, it was always the bouncer at the local pub look. Great shot, but I'd push the blacks and really make him the local scourge.</p>

<p>A few weeks ago we visited the Delta Water Works in the Netherlands. Sea Lion was wet, kids were more wet, Dad and Mom - absolutely drenched. 1D Mark IV, 70-200L f/2.8 II. (FYI - the weather-proofing works.)</p><div></div>

<p>In December of 2009 I was able to get to Joshua Tree NP for the second time in about 30 years; I truly think JTNP is one of my favorite places in the USA.</p>

<p>Anyway; I went for a long walk looking for Skull Rock. The guilty secret here is I parked about 100 ft from the rock and walked about 3 miles to finally find it... ;) So much for my self held belief in an inborn sense of direction! It was pretty cold and windy this day, they actually had snow the previous evening in the higher parts of the park.</p>

<p>I had a light coat, and with my camera gear I was able to stay warm until the sun started to get higher in the sky.</p>

<p>I was chatting with the ranger at the entrance station and he was doing the standard safety brief about food and water when he took a second look at me and said; Oh, you have the eyes so I don't need to tell you this stuff... Now, I was raised in the So Cal deserts as a kid in the 50s and early 60s so I thought his conclusion was a bit strange.</p>

<p>OK, sorry for the tangent, here's the shot I want to post from this trip. This was my first trip outside Minnesota with my new 5D MKII.</p>

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<p>Pozzo's Fresco - roof of the church of Saint Ignatius in Rome. Taken with a 5DII and 15mm F2.8 fisheye - handheld.</p><div></div>

<p>Just correcting the distortion and focusing on the roof shows the amazing illusion created in the 1680s - sorry to post a second shot but I could not resist it.</p><div></div>

<p>Local waterfall after rain last weekend.</p><div></div>

<p>From a pure photography standpoint this isn't that good, background is too busy and subject not isolated. But I took it by a pure chance. I was taking pictures of live tanks demonstrations during a military museum's annual event. There were plenty of people an lot of noise. Suddenly I noticed this little bird, that wasn't that much afraid of tanks. I took 2-3 shots with 7D and 70-200 f/4 IS while it was 25 meters away.<br>

I am not a wildlife guy (70-200 is my longer glass) and I can't identify the bird. So I hope somebody here can help. It was shot in Switzerland, across the german border, very near the Rhine river</p>

<p>BTW Philip, Sant'Ignazio is one of my favorite places in Rome!</p>

<p>Wednesday's sunrise while an early morning thunderstorm was lingering. My photos don't do it justice! This from the street in front of my house.</p><div></div>

<p>Wireless keeps going down... Too many connection problems. Sorry :-(<br>

If you would like to help identifying the bird, please check it on Flickr:<br>

<p>As usual, some really nice work already this week. Love that hummingbird, Nathan. I didn't get out to shoot at all this week, so here is one from a couple of weeks ago, shot with my 50D and the 100-300mm f4.5-f5.6 USM lens.</p><div></div>

<p>Taking the 7D up to NYC today. Here's an Egret from earlier this week.</p><div></div>

<p>Don't any of you guys have day jobs? Nice work. This one's from a couple of years back, ignored at the time, but I looked again last week and thought, "Why not?"</p><div></div>

<p>Hi folks. Was a bit late adding comments to last week's photos, but they are there now if you'd like to look.</p>

<p>I really liked how the sunlight was filtering through the trees, lighting up patches of the ground as it was in this shot. The lizard was constantly moving, and I had a hard time getting in position for this shot. I took several exposures from different angles and finally decided I liked this one. Looks like it is grinning at me.</p><div></div>

<p>Not the best shot in the world but something quintessentially English about it, wouldnt fancy using it though. Checked inside and it all still worked!</p><div></div>