Showing posts with label 300mm. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 300mm. Show all posts

Saturday, March 2, 2024

Flamingo in Narra for Saturday Critter

 


This was taken over 20 years ago. In one of my trips to Japan. I was a young bloke keen to create fine art photography. 


Canon 10D 

FE 300mm f4 IS L 


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Saturday, September 16, 2023

Kangaroo for Saturday Critter

 


Spotted in Gippsland 


Sony A7RIV

Canon 300mm f4


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Saturday, September 9, 2023

Koala for Saturday Critter

 


I think on a way to lake entrance spotting this gem along the way. 


I am shutting down a few clinic commitments since the cost of living crisis. I will use this opportunity to explore other hobbies I have :)


Canon 5D Mk II

Canon 300mm f4


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Saturday, August 26, 2023

King Fisher for Saturday Critter

 


I was lucky enough to spot it in a casual walk in Mt Baw Baw. Pity it was squatting in the shadow. 


Sony A7RIV

Canon 300mm f4


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Saturday, August 12, 2023

Ducklings Healesville for Saturday Critter

 


This is a lovely spotting before I visited Wildlife sanctuary in the region. At the time, I was using canon lens converter for Sony A7RIV. Canon lens tends to give yellow cast to the image which is impossible to remove in software. 


Sony A7RIV

Canon 300mm f4 


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Saturday, November 12, 2022

Saturday, November 5, 2022

Saturday's Critter - Koala Napping

 


In a wildlife park near Healsville, she is conserving her energy as usual. I feel like that whole week!


Sony A7RIV

Canon 300mm f4 L


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Saturday, December 28, 2013

Mountain-Hawk Eagle


Spotted in Central Japan. Unfortunately I did not have proper telephoto lens with me. This one will do.

Sunday, December 1, 2013

Sunday, February 10, 2013

Who dares wins ... on Yarra river


It is recorded that E Coli in Yarra river being 5 times above recommended level 

Thursday, September 13, 2012

Thursday, December 16, 2010

Blue Fairy Wren - a thought



The image is taken by Pentax A* 300 f2.8 with 2 teleconverters in King lake national park.

For some years, I had been an avid bird watcher and photographer. Apart from the usual boring exotic myenas and native rosella, a lot of the native Victorian birds were rarely spotted.

Due to real life commitment to various daunting chores, this hobby had been neglected for a number of years. However, I spotted blue fairy wren every now and then after a plentiful raindrop this year. Yeah, thanks to El Nina that these wrens were somewhat more prevalent in my local reserve parks!

Therefore, I googled a bit of information on superb fairy wren and discovered something very interesting shown below...

"The Superb Fairywren is notable for several peculiar behavioural characteristics; the birds are socially monogamous and sexually promiscuous, meaning that although they form pairs between one male and one female, each partner will mate with other individuals and even assist in raising the young from such pairings. Male wrens pluck yellow petals and display them to females as part of a courtship display."

So what does it mean by socially monogamous and sexually promiscuous? It seems to apply to male gender in general after all. I do love that phrase "socially monogamous" being socially isolated? Then "sexually promiscuous" as animal instinct disinhibited?

No wonder male wrens look very colourful while females look very dull. Again, male wrens tend to hop around in a very agile fashion. Any photographers in South Eastern Australia would know photographying wrens is an incredible task even with autofocus lens. So this image has been something like a milestone after I could get some clarity out of this image using manual focus ring!!

Now I am hesistating about micro 4/3 system where there is little range of telephoto selection for an avid bird photographer.

Birds are really interesting entities where all their organs are packed inside that tiny bodies and move so quickly that make it almost impossible to capture them on cameras.

Roe