A Small Selection Box

No great theme today, just a few photos starting with a rather fine looking mallard.

Next up is a goose… one of the locals.

And a second goose (a local greylag). The white goose is essentially a domesticated (now feral) greylag.

The final bird photo is of a much smaller species, the pied wagtail. This one was busy catching flies on the church roof.

No foxes this evening, but a couple of pond-life shots. A young newt, and then a damselfly nymph.

I'm currently in the middle of learning my way around Adobe Lightroom (using a 30-day trial version). It's in parts baffling (I get lost just moving around it), but the raw processing is excellent, as are the range of editing tools. I'll persist with the learning curve as I strongly suspect that once I have got a proper idea of how to use it I'll save a lot of time sitting in front of the computer. All today's shots were edited in it apart from final re-sizing and sharpening in Photoshop (which really does take only a few seconds). Being able to do fairly sophisticated edits (certainly when compared with Canon's Digital Photo Pro) is a big step forward and I only need to process shots I know I'm going to use. It also has some excellent tagging tools which should help in keeping track of images.
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Camera note: all birds taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens. The newt and nymph were photographed with the EF 100mm f/2.8L macro IS USM lens.

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This Post Has 15 Comments

  1. cakkleberrylane

    26 Nov 2011

    VERY fine looking mallard, goose, greylag, pied wagtail, newt and damselfly nymph!!

  2. gdare

    27 Nov 2011

    I saw a flock of Canada Geese the other day in Stanley park. They were not even afraid of me, I was maybe a meter away, but they were not paying attention.
    Later, San told me they are evil, they attack people sometimes :left:

  3. SittingFox

    27 Nov 2011

    Interesting to see the wild and feral geese together! It's also interesting that humans seem to actively select for colour morphs that natural selection seems to select against :right:

  4. Mickeyjoe-Irl

    27 Nov 2011

    Selection Box

    An early Christmas present? 😀

  5. anonymous

    27 Nov 2011

    Gaina writes:

    That mallard is particularly lovely, isn't it? :D.

    Pied Wagtails are one of my favourite things about winter – we always seem to get them coming in the garden more regularly.

  6. Words

    27 Nov 2011

    Adele, the white goose adopted one of the greylag pairs this summer and acted as a third guardian to their goslings. The greylag may be one of them, all grown up now.

  7. Words

    27 Nov 2011

    Mick, it's early if it is, and it may be 'only' as well 😉

  8. Words

    27 Nov 2011

    Erwin, thanks!

  9. Words

    27 Nov 2011

    Thanks Lois!

  10. Words

    27 Nov 2011

    Darko, geese can be quite aggressive and I always make sure I give them some distance. They are large birds!

  11. Words

    27 Nov 2011

    Gaina, the wagtails are such fun to watch. They are unbelievably agile in the air. I love watching them watching flies and waiting until just the right moment to pluck it out of the air.

  12. gdare

    28 Nov 2011

    Originally posted by Words:

    They are large birds!

    Those were large enough for a nice lunch :chef:

  13. Words

    28 Nov 2011

    But only if you can catch them, and they can fight back.

  14. serola

    29 Nov 2011

    :yes: A good editing tool can save a lot of time. Still looking one for Linux 🙂

  15. Wulpen

    19 Oct 2012

    Nice Pict

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