Avocets Fighting

                                                             Avocets Fighting, England

 

 

Blacktoft Sands RSPB reserve, England, July 2013.

 

Canon 7D + 300mm. Hand held.

 

Copyright: Kevin Smith

Little Owl

 

                                      
                                                                Little Owl, England


Canon 50D + 300mm + x2 converter. Hand held.

Copyright: Kevin Smith

               

       

Spurn Blues

Blues mating. Spurn Point, England.[ Copyright: Kevin Smith]

Hands On Creation

Darters. England. {Copyright: Kevin Smith]

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].

Copyright: Kevin Smith

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]

Copyright: Kevin Smith