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Photo of the Day: April 2014

Canada Goose

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These guys are so common around here (it is Canada after all) that in some areas they're considered pests. But I like certain elements of this shot.
 
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Cheese&Apple said:
Canada Goose

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These guys are so common around here (it is Canada after all) that in some areas they're considered pests. But I like certain elements of this shot.
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They're even common and considered pests in Kansas (trust me, the guy who owns the zoo I work at, a lover of all animals, pretty much hates them), but that is a great shot. The lighting is just about as perfect as you're going to get in a shot like that, and you've managed to bring a great level of clarity to the face without it feeling washed out. Contrast is so tricky with these guys.
 
Yep it's another picture of my dog. I've had a lazy day, what can I say....

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Fujifilm XE1 with Rokkor 50mm shot wide open at 1.4
 
MacRy said:
It was my fault fella. I put the wrong url in the first time.
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Actually you stole my thunder, as I was preparing a photo of my own angelic dog to put up here, but I've decided to post him anyway :cool:

Cheers :)

Hugh
 

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MacRy said:
He looks like a nice old boy.
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13 a couple of weeks ago, but as he's half dalmation he acts like he is still 3 - still needs at least 2 long walks a day (couple of miles each) and plays with all the younger dogs on the field we go to.
In this pic he was sitting in the sun on charge before the next foray :)

Cheers :)

Hugh
 
MacRy said:
YI'm loving your hummingbird shots. Really nice. Makes me wish that we had some more exotic looking birds in the UK.
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Thanks, MacRy. Glad you are enjoying them. I feel fortunate to have them visiting me daily in the garden this spring. At one point last week, I saw five flitting about at one time. Some of them seem to have migrated on, though.

As Doylem noted (quite poetically), I'm sure there is an abundance of interesting birds and other wildlife waiting to be photographed in the UK. I, for one, would very much like to see a peregrine falcon's stoop. It was my many failed attempts to photograph what I thought was a red-tailed hawk (but which I now believe to have been a Cooper's hawk) in a nearby tree with a 135mm lens that eventually led me back to the hummingbirds.

I hung up a new hummingbird feeder this weekend. The birds haven't taken an interest in it yet.


Hummingbird Feeder by MCH-1138, on Flickr

D7000 • Nikon 85mm f/1.8G • 1/250 @ f/5.6
 
kenoh said:
Love it! Your dog has a beef with that Dandelion by the look of it!
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He was running away from my wife because she had caught him eating the salad she had put out for our tortoises. He looks like he's having a go at the dandelion but he is actually eating lettuce. He's weird.
 
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