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My contribution for this week’s challenge…
Today-Was-A-Good-Day
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I had just arrived home from collecting the weekend papers and…
noticed a pair of wild ducks across the road.
I tried to get closer but they took flight.
The sky wasn’t that dark…
closer to this.
It took a few frames before…
I managed to zoom out enough to capture both birds.
They did not wait around…
choosing to stay well away from me…
preferring to disappear over our neighbours trees.
This is the first time I have captured birds in flight,
and for me
that has made today a good day.
Now, if only my football team will win this afternoon…must run.
Have a good weekend.
The differing coloured (sky) backgrounds is due to my quick, rough editing.
Have to be gone in an hour to catch a train.
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Catching birds in flight always makes for great pics. There’s a heron that hangs out near the irrigation canal where I live, but I’m always too slow to catch it in action.
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Funnily, I have prepared to shoot birds in flight several times and missed. This time I was preparing to shoot into front of me and they took flight…I was lucky enough to to be able to track them…this time. 🙂
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Brilliant photos. You have done better than I do. My reflexes are way to slow. By the time I get my camera up and ready to shoot the birds are long gone.
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I know that feeling…this time I think having camera in hand helped 😊
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Great capture
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Thank you
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Great captures of ducks in flight. It is not easy to capture birds in flight, I have many images of blank sky, tring to shoot the swallows and kestrels here.
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Thank you. I know what you mean about blank sky. I have a great shot of a patch of dirt…should have been a fast moving robin in the shot.
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Catching birds in flight (and in focus) is difficult to do. Congratulations on these shots!
janet
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Thank you. I would have liked better focus but it is close enough.
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You did a good job zooming onto those high flyers!
Up here in the Tablelands, there are magnificent flights of geese honking over each evening. They sound and look so good.
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Thank you. I always think there is a large element of luck involved. However, I was facing east with the first shot and west by the time the last shot was completed, so was fairly pleased with the results. But Collingwood lost…again! 😦
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