Some sort of duck (female and male shot).

DRT-MaverickDRT-Maverick Registered Users Posts: 476 Major grins
edited February 17, 2008 in Wildlife
Don't know what this is, but it's pretty. It likes swimming underwater too and surfacing under geese! :rofl

unknownduck1zx6.jpg


The male I'd assume, too flashy to be female?
unknownduck2yi9.jpg


:) Any ideas?
Pentax K20D 14.6mp Body : Pentax *ist D 6.1mp Body : Pentax ZX10 Body : 180mm Sigma Macro EX lens : 18-55mm Pentax SMC DA Lens : 28-200mm Sigma Lens : 50-500mm Sigma APO DG EX lens : Pentax AF-500FTZ flash : Sigma EX 2x Teleconverter.

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  • raptorcaptorraptorcaptor Registered Users Posts: 3,968 Major grins
    edited February 16, 2008
    male and female Common Merganser!

    Nice captures!
    Glenn

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  • DRT-MaverickDRT-Maverick Registered Users Posts: 476 Major grins
    edited February 16, 2008
    raptorcaptor wrote:
    male and female Common Merganser!

    Nice captures!


    :D


    I'm really getting into avery photography!

    There's a duck by my house that's white bodied with a cinnomon head and no crest, it's very shy and sits out in the far far end of the pond though, where I'd have to use the TC 2x to capture it, and I'm scared of image quality degredation, shoulda gone with the 1.4x.
    Pentax K20D 14.6mp Body : Pentax *ist D 6.1mp Body : Pentax ZX10 Body : 180mm Sigma Macro EX lens : 18-55mm Pentax SMC DA Lens : 28-200mm Sigma Lens : 50-500mm Sigma APO DG EX lens : Pentax AF-500FTZ flash : Sigma EX 2x Teleconverter.
  • DRT-MaverickDRT-Maverick Registered Users Posts: 476 Major grins
    edited February 16, 2008
    merganser3js4.jpg

    :)
    Pentax K20D 14.6mp Body : Pentax *ist D 6.1mp Body : Pentax ZX10 Body : 180mm Sigma Macro EX lens : 18-55mm Pentax SMC DA Lens : 28-200mm Sigma Lens : 50-500mm Sigma APO DG EX lens : Pentax AF-500FTZ flash : Sigma EX 2x Teleconverter.
  • dbaker1221dbaker1221 Registered Users Posts: 4,482 Major grins
    edited February 17, 2008
    nice capture...thumb.gif .I can't get close to these ducks to shoot them
    **If I keep shooting, I'm bound to hit something**
    Dave
  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited February 17, 2008
    Merganser can be very shy, you did well being able to capture them.
    Harry
    http://behret.smugmug.com/ NANPA member
    How many photographers does it take to change a light bulb? 50. One to change the bulb, and forty-nine to say, "I could have done that better!"
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