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Beak with Boke

PostPosted: Sun Nov 28, 2004 5:49 pm
by Greg B
http://www.pixspot.com/displayimage.php ... 0008&pos=0

Shot under very difficult circumstances, the bird was on the nest buried in thick ivy, nervously protecting her chicks, and I wanted to minimise the anxiety. So I took what I could.

PostPosted: Sun Nov 28, 2004 6:13 pm
by xerubus
Is that a common indian myna?

although the shot is great.. especially under the circumstances... i have to be blatantly honest and say it doesn't do much for me... :shock:

/me scurries back into his corner...

PostPosted: Sun Nov 28, 2004 6:25 pm
by Greg B
Come out of the corner xerebus, it isn't much of a shot, I like the colours, but I haven't managed to get the bird's eye, etc etc.

Yep, I think it is the common myna

PostPosted: Sun Nov 28, 2004 7:50 pm
by Onyx
peek-a-boo! I see no eyes, which way is up? ;)

PostPosted: Sun Nov 28, 2004 8:24 pm
by Matt. K
This is the first I have seen of your work. You have a nice touch. There is a sensitivity to your photography that gives it a strange but beautiful quality. Show me more.

PostPosted: Sun Nov 28, 2004 8:28 pm
by Nicole
Hi Greg, a shame about all that ivy. Birds are not an easy subject to take pics of. Cute photo of your dog though.

PostPosted: Sun Nov 28, 2004 8:33 pm
by bago100
Greg
I like it
It shows a bird trying to hide and yet looking for mum and dad. The ivy at the front, I think, adds to the vulnerability of the bird.
Lighting would have been tricky in the bushes
Cheers
Graham

PostPosted: Sun Nov 28, 2004 8:55 pm
by Matt. K
By the way Greg...You didn't like your breakfast?

PostPosted: Sun Nov 28, 2004 9:52 pm
by kipper
Love the Bolty Bridge and the one of the river. Where was the river shot?

PostPosted: Sun Nov 28, 2004 10:13 pm
by Greg B
Thanks for the comments!

Nicole - not actually my dog, but he is a fantastic little fella.

Matt, thanks.

Kipper, the river shot was taken late 70's somewhere around Deniliquin, I can't remember exactly. A group of people on a kind of share/commune farm had - for several years - the annual Mudfest over easter. Probably 60-80 people camping along the river, people frollicking naked in the mud, a huge bonfire every night, they were high times. I got a series of great shots of the river just after dawn, mist on the river, shot on Kodachrome 64

PostPosted: Mon Nov 29, 2004 7:27 am
by gstark
Greg B wrote:Kipper, the river shot was taken late 70's somewhere around Deniliquin, I can't remember exactly. A group of people on a kind of share/commune farm had - for several years - the annual Mudfest over easter. Probably 60-80 people camping along the river, people frollicking naked in the mud, a huge bonfire every night, they were high times. I got a series of great shots of the river just after dawn, mist on the river, shot on Kodachrome 64


Anything to do with Pipi Storm Circus perhaps?

PostPosted: Mon Nov 29, 2004 7:15 pm
by Matt. K
Gary...you...naked at the mud-fest? Hmmm too late for the nature competition.

PostPosted: Mon Nov 29, 2004 7:42 pm
by Raydar
Matt. K wrote:Gary...you...naked at the mud-fest? Hmmm too late for the nature competition.


This I think is a good thing!!!!! :shock:

Cheers
Ray :P

PostPosted: Mon Nov 29, 2004 8:06 pm
by gstark
Matt. K wrote:Gary...you...naked at the mud-fest? Hmmm too late for the nature competition.


Not I, but some friends were heavily involved in Pipi Storm.

Including one very well known personality (radio, comedy) of whom I have a rather, er, embarrasing-ish image which was used for their reunion ealier this year.

And no, I'm sworn to secrecy.