Those stupid birds!

Dick on ArubaDick on Aruba Registered Users Posts: 3,484 Major grins
edited August 12, 2006 in Wildlife
My wife asked me if I don't get sick of photographing the same birds over and over again.

Well...NEVER!!!!

I gave her my DEBIT-card and send her into town with the agreement never to asked me a stupid question like that anymore. She agreed. :D

Seriously, don't you just love it?

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Not my sharpest pic but to good for the recycle bin.

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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited August 10, 2006
    That's a question I hear all the time. :D. Nice shot that might have been helped with some fill flash.
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  • ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited August 10, 2006
    I think it might have helped if you were down eye level with the bird and very close, ahhahahahahhahahahaahaaaahaha, sorry, just had to say it!

    Yeah, I get a lot of those. Nice shot!

    I kind of do get tired of shooting the same stuff (we know I don't travel), but then again the same stuff keeps changing. Harry has most of the Wood Storks this year.

    Someone else has most of my Great Blue Herons, they could be right down the street for all I know.

    However, I think I have all of the Green Herons in the world right now, whereas last year I had practically none.

    I spent a couple of nice hours with a Great White Heron. And something new happened: it rained so that I could actually get a photo of it. Usually rain equals "blur", this time it didn't.

    So, the same stuff keeps changing. Who knows, maybe in 50 yrs or so I will get a bunch of raptors. Not looking anymore. Wasn't expecting all those green herons either.

    Uh, she got full use of your debit card for asking that question?

    ginger (actually, a pretty nice shot.............I wonder where that phrase came from about not shooting until you see the whites of their eyes......smile. I know you were above that bird as I take a lot of those at a particular spot, if I were eye level, I would be sucked down to the other side of the world. I try to force myself not to go unless the lighting is really good, can't gage that exactly except by being there. Actually winter is best!)
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  • Dick on ArubaDick on Aruba Registered Users Posts: 3,484 Major grins
    edited August 10, 2006
    Harryb wrote:
    That's a question I hear all the time. :D. Nice shot that might have been helped with some fill flash.

    Thanks Harry
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  • Dick on ArubaDick on Aruba Registered Users Posts: 3,484 Major grins
    edited August 10, 2006
    ginger_55 wrote:
    ... Uh, she got full use of your debit card for asking that question?...

    Thanks Ginger.

    ...not for THAT question but for not asking other questions :D BTW, there was not much to spend on my debit card. My creditcard however I protect with my life.

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  • Awais YaqubAwais Yaqub Registered Users Posts: 10,572 Major grins
    edited August 10, 2006
    clap.gif Thanks God i am not married
    Nice shot loved it
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  • Dick on ArubaDick on Aruba Registered Users Posts: 3,484 Major grins
    edited August 10, 2006
    Awais Yaqub wrote:
    clap.gif Thanks God i am not married
    Nice shot loved it

    Thanks Awais you lucky you
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  • SteveFSteveF Registered Users Posts: 466 Major grins
    edited August 10, 2006
    Too good to toss, not good enough for...

    I know how that goes.

    The real issue is what is the limit on that debit card? I might lower mine way down and then use the same line to get a couple good hours of shooting. rolleyes1.gifrolleyes1.gif
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  • Dick on ArubaDick on Aruba Registered Users Posts: 3,484 Major grins
    edited August 10, 2006
    SteveF wrote:
    Too good to toss, not good enough for...

    I know how that goes.

    The real issue is what is the limit on that debit card? I might lower mine way down and then use the same line to get a couple good hours of shooting. rolleyes1.gifrolleyes1.gif

    You're a smart man Steve, I can talk with you :D

    Thanks.
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  • LCDLCD Registered Users Posts: 494 Major grins
    edited August 11, 2006
    Hey! It's not just wives that ask that question!!

    Nice shot Dick! But, don't you have on just like it? Laughing.gif!!

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  • Dick on ArubaDick on Aruba Registered Users Posts: 3,484 Major grins
    edited August 12, 2006
    LCD wrote:
    Hey! It's not just wives that ask that question!!

    Nice shot Dick! But, don't you have on just like it? Laughing.gif!!

    the quest for perfection is a slave driver!

    Thanks LCD.

    "...one just like it?" Hmmm...Lets seerolleyes1.gif
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