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PhilBoogie

macrumors 6502
May 15, 2014
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Windy​

February, 4pm
Lens Model: iPhone 13 Pro back triple camera 5.7mm f/1.5
 

mollyc

macrumors G3
Aug 18, 2016
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fujica half + kodak gold

I took photos of the market on two other film cameras, and neither really came out well. I was so happy when this diptych came out as planned, especially as I'm not good with judging the rangefinder distance and usually get close up images a bit OOF.
 

lkalliance

macrumors 65816
Jul 17, 2015
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So I’ve had my bank of feeders up for several years now, and there are several species that are constant visitors, and I’m happy for most of them. But it’s neat when I get something I didn’t expect. I’d always hoped for a pileated woodpecker. We got other kinds of woodpeckers, but though my town has plenty of woods my home isn’t in amongst them, so I figured it wouldn’t happen.

I shared this with my wife, showed her the picture in the book. She thought my interest might be misplaced.

WIFE: Dear, what we’re dealing with here is a perfect engine, a pecking machine. It’s a miracle of evolution, really. All this machine does is fly, and peck, and make little birds, and that’s all! Now why don't you take a long, close look at this book. Those proportions are correct.

And then, one day…

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My stepson was the one that spotted her.

STEPSON: You’re gonna need a bigger feeder.
ME: (peering out the doorway) Shut off the kitchen light!
WIFE: That’s a twenty-incher!
ME: (squinting) Twenty-five. All fifteen ounces of ‘er.

(Jaws is one the great American films of the last fifty years!)

No birds were shot (well, not with a gun) in the making of this parody. But it is true that I had hoped to attract a pileated woodpecker, and that I expected never to do so…until the day one showed up in the spring of 2019. This photo was in the fall of that year.

Taken with my Canon EOS T2i.
 
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