No Words: Drive-by

[kayak203]

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[kayak203]

ok, I have driven by this bird for a number of days. this day I stopped to take the picture, so I guess it doesn't really qualify as a drive by, but please post yours! thanks, Paul

[Matthew Currie]

Wrong side of the road, wrong camera, wrong lens, wrong film, but the bird was there.<div></div>

[mark_chappell]

Nice redtail picture. Using the car as a convenient photography blind is a clasic technique

for hawks and many other birds. A few examples, shot out of a car window:<P>

 

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blue-winged teal<BR>

<img src ="http://www.biology.ucr.edu/personal/MACphotos/birds1/

BWTmale4.jpg"><P>

 

osprey<BR>

<img src ="http://www.biology.ucr.edu/personal/MACphotos/birds3/osprey2.jpg">

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ferruginous hawk<BR>

<img src ="http://www.biology.ucr.edu/personal/MACphotos/birds3/

ferruginouscloseup.jpg"><P>

 

 

 

burrowing owl<br>

<img src ="http://www.biology.ucr.edu/personal/MACphotos/birds3/

burrowingowl.jpg"><P>

 

 

chukar<br>

<img src ="http://www.biology.ucr.edu/personal/MACphotos/birds3/chukar.jpg"><P>

 

belted kingfisher<br>

<img src ="http://www.biology.ucr.edu/personal/MACphotos/birds4/

beltedkingfisher2.jpg">

 

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[kayak203]

Mark, I'm not sure I really want to know, but what lens do you use? I have a D70s with a 300mm AF-S. I haven't yet gotten the Tamron 1.4x to work that well with it, but I'll keep trying before I invest. thanks, Paul

[mark_chappell]

Paul: all of these were shot with a 500 mm lens with teleconverters (some 1.4X, some 2X). I

mostly use a Canon IDMkII, which has a 1.3 'magnification' factor (compared to 1.5 for Nikon

DSLRs). So the 35 mm equivalent focal lengths ranged from 910 to 1300 mm.

[KenPapai]

Is it legal to post Canon-produced shots in Nikon forum? Or is this an April Fools Day joke?

[kayak203]

Mark, I don't know the procedure, but I feel that you should request that your fine pictures be removed. thanks, Paul

[mark_chappell]

AFAK, there's no rule about what kind of camera one can use for posting images here, even

on April 1. I've posted lots of stuff on this forum but Shun rules the roost and can exile these

if he wants. One reason I come here for 'no words' postings is that they aren't allowed over

at the EOS forum, and after all, images are the ultimate goal, I would hope.

[greg s]

taken in a local NWR from car window<div></div>

[mark_chappell]

Peter and Greg: thanks, and I certainly envy those two shots -- I have only lousy pictures of

golden eagles and none at all of rough-legged hawks...

[greg s]

Mark, Thanks! Come on up to Oregon sometime and I'll show you where to find the RL Hawks (Klamath Basin is good in the winter, and we get a few here in the Willamette Valley too). Eagles will be nesting soon... :) Cheers, -Greg-

[lex_jenkins]

For some reason whenever I see a hawk near my home the only camera I have available is a P&S.

 

Here in North Central Texas we have a type of hawk that I've dubbed the Great Speckled Hood Swooper for its playful habit of trying to cause car wrecks by swooping across the hood during evening drives through the countryside.

 

I never see 'em when I'm equipped with big artillery.

[kayak203]

Hood swooper! that must be what I saw the other evening just after dark. It swooped across the road and landed on a split rail fence.

 

Mark, I'm sorry I over reacted. I can see that your response was about effective focal length, and I misinterpreted. Great photos, all.

 

Paul

[dennis lee]

More of a Hail Mary here, but, it started out as a drive by.

 

I-80 between Fairfield and Vallejo in CA. Accident in the fast lane east bound.

Travelling west bound when I saw it, I pulled to my shoulder, crossed three

lanes and hopped over the center divide to check on injuries and start

slowing down traffic in the east bound direction. I was using a loaner FM with

28/2 at the moment which had no strap. So I was motioning for traffic to slow

down and move to the slow lane while holding this camera in my hand as the

lens filled with the light mist coming down. Obviously no CHP on the scene

yet.

 

Anyway, it was bound to happen, someone in the number two lane was

alseep at the wheel and then upon noticing the accident just slammed on

their brakes not giving the car behind them a moment of a chance. The two

collided and as they did my arm swung down in an arc firing about three or

four frames of the scene. I think this is the first and best frame of the actual

moment of impact.<div></div>