Fieldfare [ thrush ]. Winter 2010. England.

Canon 50D + 300mm IS + 1.4 extender. Fine Jpeg. Hand held.
250/F5.6 @ 40ft. Clouded sun.

Every winter these Viking raiders from Scandinavia battle resident birds for the berry booty.

Copyright: Kevin Smith

Crowned crane. Winter England 2010

Canon 50D + 70-200mm Canon L IS F4 + 1.4 extender. Fine Jpeg.
Hand held. 125/F8. 640ASA

The detail captured in this disproves the mistaken old maxim that converters ALWAYS detract from an image.

Canons 1.4 matched extender added to L lenses "takes no prisoners" [even wide open].

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Christmas Cracker

Canon 50D + 24-105mm. Fine jpeg. 800ASA.
1/640 @ F4. Hand held.

Fire breathing Iron Horse races northbound 181210
between Birmingham and York [UK].

5043 " Earl of Mount Edgecombe" built 1936 for the UK
GWR [Great Western Railway]

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Euro Snipe. England Nov 2010

Canon 50D + 300 2.8 + x2 extender.
Spot meter [camera]. Bean bag support.

Are they sure the dove was first out of Noahs ark ?


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Porcelain Fungus

Canon 40D + 70-200 L IS lens. Fine Jpeg.
1/30 @ full aperture [F4]. Hand held.
Subject at 30ft [directly above]

A subject which tested the sharpness of the full aperture lens,
camera spot metering and lens image stabilisation, as I endevoured not to fall over backwards
trying to get a decent image.

121010 Clumber Park, Notts, England.

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Tortoiseshell on Daisy

Canon 50D + 70-200mm f4 IS [@189mm]
Monopod. 400ASA. 3200/F7.1 -1/3 exp comp
Partial meter.

Walking along when this butterfly dropped in front of me.

Swung up camera without any recourse to settings [3200/F7.1 for a still shot ???]
and obtained this lucky image [bearing in mind high contrast areas in the image]

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Gannet Tussle. Summer. England 2010

Canon 50D + 70-200 F4 IS + 1.4.
200ASA. 500/F8 Manual. Hand held. 50ft.

At dusk, the sun dropping towards the horizon, 2 juvenile Gannets
squabble over a patch of headland when 3 miles of empty
clifftop beckon.

Bempton, Yorkshire, England.

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