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Sigma 24-70mm f/2.8 EX Aspherical DF for Canon

05/04/2005 07:48:04 PM · #1

hdogg4u

Canon EOS-20D

05/04/2005 08:22:06 PM · #2

Very nice shots sharp. Nice lens.

Kylie

Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ35

05/04/2005 10:34:32 PM · #3

These are fantastic! The first one is just to die for!

coolhar

Canon PowerShot Pro 90 IS

05/05/2005 12:23:49 AM · #4

Excellent work Ray. Goldfinchs are hard to photograph, small and so active.

Canon EF 28-200 f/3.5 - 5.6 USM

05/05/2005 12:35:21 AM · #5

Thanks to each of you! I've been trying to add a few others but my ISP is not cooperating tonight. At the risk of showing one too many, here's another that I was finally able to upload:

Please feel free to add any other outdoors or birds photos here, too.

Sammie

Olympus OM-D E-M5

05/05/2005 01:02:54 AM · #6

Ray, your Goldfinch pictures are so pretty. They have such lovely colors and just seem like the essence of "Spring"!

Spring is finally starting to come to the high Rockies - it actually didn't feel really cold today but you still needed a coat. Here's a picture I took today at the Wildlife Refuge.

I wouldn't have posted it if you hadn't said to go ahead; don't want you to think I'm a thread hijacker! ;)

No1_Dogman_2004

Canon EOS-20D

Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6

05/05/2005 03:35:40 AM · #7

nice pics. What do you think of this one?

Message edited by author 2005-05-05 03:45:29.

05/05/2005 06:56:10 AM · #8

Originally posted by Sammie:

Ray, your Goldfinch pictures are so pretty. They have such lovely colors and just seem like the essence of "Spring"!
Spring is finally starting to come to the high Rockies - it actually didn't feel really cold today but you still needed a coat. Here's a picture I took today at the Wildlife Refuge.

Beautiful, Sammie! That looks to me like an immature redtail hawk. After their first winter, they moult into their signature brick-red tail. I tried my hand at falconry back in 1984-1985, and the law stated that apprentice falconers could only trap and keep an immature redtail or kestrel (or sparrow hawk). I had a redtail, and the tail looked just like the one in your photo.

Originally posted by Sammie:

I wouldn't have posted it if you hadn't said to go ahead; don't want you to think I'm a thread hijacker! ;)

Aw now, it never would have even occured to me that you were hijacking! Sometimes though, maybe it should, in that I have almost certainly unwittingly done that myself. My web etiquette is probably less refined and developed than it ought to be.... apologies to anyone I have barged in on in the past :o)

Message edited by author 2005-05-05 08:24:30.

05/05/2005 06:58:38 AM · #9

Originally posted by No1_Dogman_2004:

nice pics. What do you think of this one?

I think this looks wonderful in black & white. Like the border too, in fact I wouldn't change a thing! Really nice.

Fujifilm XF 18-55mm f/2.8-4 OIS

05/05/2005 07:15:33 AM · #10

GOOD NEWS!! These are the last of my goldfinch/redbud photos, and the trees around my house have lost most of their blooms (heh heh)!
Thanks for putting up with me.

docpjv

Fujifilm X-E1

05/05/2005 08:25:34 AM · #11

Great pics, love the little yellow finch, great pics and taken with a 300IS, wow! lot of people do not recommend the 300... Looks great to me!

Please look at ovenbirds portfolio...., he does unreal work with birds.

Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS

05/05/2005 08:35:50 AM · #12

Originally posted by gibun:

Please look at ovenbirds portfolio...., he does unreal work with birds.

Wow, you're not kidding. I've FAV'd a couple of his shots, and ovenbird himself for that matter. Thanks for the tip (and the compliment too).

Suntiki

05/05/2005 09:41:12 AM · #13

The first shot is my fav, with great feather detail and a nice crop. I think I have an extra cage that would fit that finch nicely.... :)

PhotoRyno

Canon EOS-5D

05/05/2005 09:43:39 AM · #14

This is my photo with feathers

ovenbird

Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT

05/05/2005 10:17:18 AM · #15

We don�t get to see the summer plumage of the goldfinches down here but this past winter we had a ton of goldfinches and I took a few shots in my back yard.

What I like about your goldfinch pictures is that you have shot them with nice colorful backgrounds which I think really compliments the birds.

I haven�t seen a goldfinch around here in over a month. Recently we have had a lot of migrants passing through. This one is a chestnut-sided warbler:

I love look at everyone's bird pictures and thanks for your kind words.

Tom

Sammie

Olympus OM-D E-M5

Canon EF 28-200 f/3.5 - 5.6 USM

05/05/2005 03:11:27 PM · #16

Goldfinches are such pretty birds - so colorful and they just seem to pose for the camera! We get Lesser Goldfinches here but I haven't had much luck getting a picture as they seem very shy whenever they come to the feeder in our yard.

Thanks for identifying my hawk, Van - there are so many kinds of them and they all look so much alike (especially when you can't see the chest) that I have a hard time deciding what sort they are. What seems really confusing (to me) with Hawk ID is the whole dark phase, light phase thing.

That Chestnut-sided warbler of yours, Ovenbird, is really an attractive bird. I will have to look it up in my bird book - have never seen one before.

Here's another one I took yesterday. There are hundreds of these Yellow Headed Blackbirds around here. I've never really gotten a picture of one I'm that happy with - their heads seem kind of shiny (or something!) and their yellow feathers don't seem to photograph well. I don't like the sort of white glow just around the head of this one (from the setting sun) but it is one of the better ones shots I've taken of this bird.

ovenbird

Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT

Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS

05/05/2005 03:24:59 PM · #17

To me lesser goldfinches are really neat looking and I always enjoy taking pictures of them when I see them.

I have been looking for a yellow-headed blackbird for a while. They are pretty rare in my area though after a storm last week some people saw a couple at a place where I was taking pictures. I missed them by a couple of minutes so I will have to keep looking.

You have a nice shot here and I would certainly be pleased to have taken it. I can understand what you mean about these birds being difficult to photograph. I have found that unless the light is just right you miss out on a lot of detail in the dark areas of the bird. You did a very good job here.

Thanks for sharing this one!

Canon EF 28-200 f/3.5 - 5.6 USM

05/05/2005 08:00:15 PM · #18

Taken today:

Edit to add another one:

Message edited by author 2005-05-05 23:30:37.

Sammie

Olympus OM-D E-M5

05/05/2005 08:05:39 PM · #19

What kind of bird is this, Ray? It's a pretty little thing with that yellow on it's head.

05/05/2005 09:35:35 PM · #20

Woops, thought I had the file named. It's a white-throated sparrow, and we have tons of them around here, probably like your yellow-headed blackbirds.

saiphfire

Canon EOS-40D

Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II

05/05/2005 11:07:40 PM · #21

Here are some "feathers" from me. I took these in South Africa when I went recently. They have some amazing birds there. There was an absolutely beautiful bird called (I think this is right) a Paradise Fly Catcher who was very colorful with an amazingly long tail. I followed him from tree to tree and eventually saw his mate and then their nest!