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Post by GeneW on Feb 16, 2006 11:46:54 GMT -5
 I was out with my Canon 300D yesterday, trying it out with a Nikkor 85/2 AI lens (via an adapter). On the digital side, I'm using a hybrid setup with Canon digital body and Nikkor manual-focus lenses. Just off the edge of the pier in the harbour, these Canada geese and mallard ducks were 'ice boarding' on an ice floe floating down the Credit River. Gene |
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Post by herron on Feb 16, 2006 14:52:27 GMT -5
Nice shot, Gene. I have the Canon 300D also...and use my Mamiya lenses with it via an adapter (or two, in the case of the CS lenses).  BTW: Was this shot converted to B&W? It turned out nicely, if it was! |
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Post by GeneW on Feb 16, 2006 15:09:32 GMT -5
Thanks Ron. Yes, I desaturated this one, though it was pretty monochromatic anyway. And I added a touch of Photoshop film grain to it to remove that too-perfect digital smoothness... I guess I'm a film guy at heart  Those Canon EOS mounts are very adaptable, aren't they? You're using Mamiya lenses and before I got into Nikon gear (just this past few months) I used Zuikos with an adapter. Gene |
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Post by John Parry on Feb 16, 2006 15:59:32 GMT -5
Lovely shot Gene,
I love to see the honkers, and just as much to hear them talking to each other as they fly overhead in perfect formation. Nicest of all is to hear them at night - you can't see them but they are letting you know they are there. I live in hopes that one night I'll be attempting to take one of my constant (usually pathetic !) attempts to shoot the moon, and can manage to catch a flight in passage across it.
They seem to be on the move here early this year, and in pretty random directions. Maybe they can't work out what the weather is playing at either !
Regards - John
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Post by GeneW on Feb 17, 2006 14:57:45 GMT -5
John, I enjoy hearing the geese too, but they've become quite a pest locally. They were once wild, but are now so tame they stay all winter and have forgotten how to migrate. Worse, they have no natural predators and we have a population explosion of them. I like 'em nonetheless ...
Gene
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Post by mickeyobe on Feb 18, 2006 5:47:30 GMT -5
Canada geese are uncivilized, ill tempered brutes without any toilet training. I was attacked by one once at Toronto's Harbourfront. It managed to give me a really good whack with its wing but I could run faster and escaped its bill.
Nevertheless, the sight and sound of a "V" shaped flock (gaggle?) honking its way across the sky is quite stirring.
The man made flock winging its way in The Eaton Centre is very tame.
Mickey
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Post by Randy on Feb 18, 2006 7:25:16 GMT -5
Nice shot of some familiar fowls. As I live in a harbor, I hear and see these fellas quite often. We also have sea gulls and Canadien Soldiers.
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Post by Microdad on Feb 18, 2006 10:17:16 GMT -5
The geese look like they're walking away from the ducks as if they have some kind of disagreement between them. Hmmm, I wonder what differences of opinion ducks and geese have.
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Post by kamera on Feb 19, 2006 20:11:33 GMT -5
Well...some of those pretty but nasty Canadian geese do migrate right here to Kalamazoo, Michigan, and a number have taken up year-round residence.
Here too, they have become such a pest that one cannot walk through some of our parks without walking on the messes. And in at least one of the parks, the childrens' playground is totally unusable.
While taking a picture a couple years ago I slipped in some of that mess and landed face to face(about 6" apart) with one of those cronking characters. Had mess on my clothes and one hand, but I did well in protecting my camera and lens. Fortunately the goose must have thought I wasn't worth attacking and walked away.
Ron Head
Kalamazoo, MI
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Post by GeneW on Feb 20, 2006 17:21:53 GMT -5
Ron, if they ever do a movie called Dances with Geese, I'll nominate you for the lead role!
Yes, they're very messy. And difficult to cull. People get sentimental about that -- and don't seem to like the shotgun approach -- so locally they've taken to coating the eggs in oil in the spring so they don't hatch. If it makes a difference, I can scarcely tell. I still have to step gingerly in all our parks.
Gene
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