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06/06/2005 02:48:07 AM · #26 |
Those who have trouble titling their bird photos will be relieved to find this list of cliche titles I'll let you use.
1) Freebird
2) Flippin' the Bird
3) With the birds
4) Birdtacular (I will give you a ten if you use this)
Feel free to add to this list
Message edited by author 2005-06-06 02:49:03. |
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06/06/2005 03:00:54 AM · #27 |
Taken yesturday, had a poultry kinda day!
  
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06/06/2005 03:15:23 AM · #28 |
Like "Alfie" I luv the mini skirted ones wiv blonde Hair and long legs do these qualify?
Message edited by author 2005-06-06 03:16:18. |
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06/06/2005 03:20:27 AM · #29 |
Originally posted by kiwinick:
Like "Alfie" I luv the mini skirted ones wiv blonde Hair and long legs do these qualify? |
Enter one and see, lol.
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06/06/2005 04:22:49 AM · #30 |
Wonder if I'd get marked down for shooting a duck...
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06/06/2005 05:31:57 AM · #31 |
Originally posted by scalvert:
Here's a shot I took about 5 hours ago (it figures)... |
Haha.. wouldn't you know. I remember not long ago posting to a thread about bad timing on all of my shots. Granular, construction, many many others.. and now birds. (I guess that's the story for a lot of us though)
 
Of course, I don't think I'll have the time to go out and shoot again this week. :sigh: woe is me :P
Message edited by author 2005-06-06 05:37:20.
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06/06/2005 07:16:08 AM · #32 |
Originally posted by faidoi:
One of many birds from last week :( Can anyone identify? |
Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
I just hope that people realize that an effective bird shot doesn't have to be a frame-filling head shot of a raptor or the like. Birds only need to be part of the composition for me.
Message edited by author 2005-06-06 07:20:28.
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06/06/2005 07:20:33 AM · #33 |
i think this would have been a great entry!! I hate birds, seems like their always flying at me :(
Originally posted by bear_music:
Been there, done that, almost got a brown ribbon for it:
IN the challenge "emotion", and the emotion portrayed was irritation, for whatever that's worth. Irritating shot ain't it?
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06/06/2005 07:30:10 AM · #34 |
This one will be fun, but I'll be fighting my daughter all week for use of the 10D and 70-200 zoom.
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06/06/2005 07:36:43 AM · #35 |
This was taken on Sunday. Too early to enter. I'd like to know what kind of bird this is, if anyone know?
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06/06/2005 07:37:14 AM · #36 |
Originally posted by Prof_Fate:
So what is the secret to really good bird shots?
The 'tame' ones i shot at the Aviary are kind of easy..the wild ones are a real PITA.
If i had a feeder i suppose that would help some.
Since there are obviously gonna be lots of really good bird shots, what will it take to be a top finisher? Action perhaps? |
i believe it will take a very large wild bird attacking a nude model to try and get her mcchicken sandwich...
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06/06/2005 07:42:30 AM · #37 |
We'll probably see quite a few of the obligatory duck pics, too.
 
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06/06/2005 07:50:25 AM · #38 |
Originally posted by saracat:
We'll probably see quite a few of the obligatory duck pics, too.
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One can only hope that this challenge will be the opportunity for people to get their "duck pictures" in. Everybody, please get the "ducks" out of your system in this challenge. Ducks are birds...not apples, not decisions, not silhouettes, not triangles, not anything else either...they are birds! Go Shoot them! All of them!
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06/06/2005 07:50:55 AM · #39 |
wait maybe i can find a bird doing construction....how does that saying go kill two birds with one lens.....
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06/06/2005 08:12:56 AM · #40 |
Originally posted by buzzmom:
wait maybe i can find a bird doing construction.... |
A bird building a nest oughtta' do it. ;-) |
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06/06/2005 08:23:43 AM · #41 |
Originally posted by ClickNSee:
Originally posted by saracat:
We'll probably see quite a few of the obligatory duck pics, too.
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One can only hope that this challenge will be the opportunity for people to get their "duck pictures" in. Everybody, please get the "ducks" out of your system in this challenge. Ducks are birds...not apples, not decisions, not silhouettes, not triangles, not anything else either...they are birds! Go Shoot them! All of them! |
I hope this challenge gets even more people into shooting ducks just to piss you off. Who the hell are you to tell me what I can and cannot enter in a challenge? |
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06/06/2005 08:25:04 AM · #42 |
Gah.
I knew there'd be a challenge like this (or maybe a humor challenge) after I took this picture on Sunday morning.
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06/06/2005 08:30:23 AM · #43 |
Originally posted by pawdrix:
This was taken on Sunday. Too early to enter. I'd like to know what kind of bird this is, if anyone know?
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Looks like a Green Heron. |
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06/06/2005 08:49:42 AM · #44 |
Hey - Did you know that really means something like "pluck you"? Heard a funny story about it this weekend at the Virginia Renaissance Fair.
The story goes something like this: English archers if caught had their middle finger cut off so they couldn't shoot anymore. In a defiant gesture of NOT being caught they would ride by holding up their middle finger to show they could still sling some arrows.
Something like that...If anyone knows the whole story please feel free to share. ;^)
Originally posted by bear_music:
Been there, done that, almost got a brown ribbon for it:
IN the challenge "emotion", and the emotion portrayed was irritation, for whatever that's worth. Irritating shot ain't it?
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06/06/2005 08:58:53 AM · #45 |
But aren't many of those that have done well "(birds of prey, exotic birds)" taken while in captivity (i.e. Zoo, or Aviary)? That's kind of like fishing in a barrel. Ever tried getting really close to a crow without camouflage? I have and they are really quite elusive.
Originally posted by kmbr2001:
does anyone think that photographs of birds not easily photographed (birds of prey, exotic birds) would get a higher score than, you know, a seagull or a goose or a crow? just wondering. |
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06/06/2005 09:01:53 AM · #46 |
Originally posted by glad2badad:
But aren't many of those that have done well "(birds of prey, exotic birds)" taken while in captivity (i.e. Zoo, or Aviary)? That's kind of like fishing in a barrel. Ever tried getting really close to a crow without camouflage? I have and they are really quite elusive. |
Yeah. Except when they're defending something. Ouch.
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06/06/2005 09:07:09 AM · #47 |
Originally posted by glad2badad:
But aren't many of those that have done well "(birds of prey, exotic birds)" taken while in captivity (i.e. Zoo, or Aviary)? That's kind of like fishing in a barrel. Ever tried getting really close to a crow without camouflage? I have and they are really quite elusive.
Originally posted by kmbr2001:
does anyone think that photographs of birds not easily photographed (birds of prey, exotic birds) would get a higher score than, you know, a seagull or a goose or a crow? just wondering. |
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I am working on a series (have for the last 5 years actually) based on Wallace Stevens poem, "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird." In all those years I have only managed to accomplish 4. got quite a few crow pictures though. :)
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06/06/2005 09:23:19 AM · #48 |
So blackbirds are more elusive than crows? I'm always seeing blackbirds around water (ponds, lakes).
I remember hunting crows with my dad in Michigan as a kid and we used owl decoys and wore full camouflage. Now as an adult I see numerous crows every day around the horse pasture, but I swear if you walk past a window or open the screen door they are gone!
BTW - Sounds like an interesting project.
Originally posted by dahkota:
...I am working on a series (have for the last 5 years actually) based on Wallace Stevens poem, "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird." In all those years I have only managed to accomplish 4. got quite a few crow pictures though. :)
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06/06/2005 09:37:43 AM · #49 |
Originally posted by glad2badad:
So blackbirds are more elusive than crows? I'm always seeing blackbirds around water (ponds, lakes).
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Nope. Its not the difficulty in finding them (and I use crows and ravens more often - they are much more interesting birds) Its the difficulty in getting them to pose the way I need! :) Luckily I am not tied to literal translations... I have 'black'birds all over my yard. I think we call them grackles.
Best place to look for crows? Cemetaries...
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06/06/2005 09:45:50 AM · #50 |
Missed by a few weeks, took this 17/5/2005.
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