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Lord Montagu the 3rd
03-02-2009, 12:33 PM
Spent a good hour or two watching this Kestrel flapping about and watching me. So much so she started following me around from perch to perch.

So I had a play with slow shutter speeds

click the pictures for a good time

http://images.fotopic.net/ywokpt.jpg
(http://www.hardpointphotography.fotopic.net/p56668529.html)
http://images.fotopic.net/ywokpu.jpg
(http://www.hardpointphotography.fotopic.net/p56668531.html)
http://images.fotopic.net/ywokpw.jpg
(http://www.hardpointphotography.fotopic.net/p56668533.html)
http://images.fotopic.net/ywokp0.jpg
(http://www.hardpointphotography.fotopic.net/p56668534.html)
http://images.fotopic.net/ywokpz.jpg
(http://www.hardpointphotography.fotopic.net/p56668535.html)
Terri
03-02-2009, 12:45 PM
These are all fantastic. The last two just knock my socks off. I love that whispery wing in the second to last, and the head angle of the last makes me want to duck, cause she's coming right at me. :lol:

Wonderful work. It's great how patiently you work with animals. You really get the results. :thumbup:
Overread
03-02-2009, 01:39 PM
a full hour - that is longer than I have ever watched her for (did you see the hare by chance!??)
PhotoJet
03-02-2009, 02:35 PM
Wow!! As I scrolled down, I kept thinking "Oo... I like that one! No, I like that one! No, I like that one!" All are fabulous, but the positioning on the second one and the intensity of the last two are above & beyond! Nice work! :cheer:
Antarctican
03-02-2009, 03:01 PM
^^^ I think Jeanette said it all! Wonderful images, and it must have been sooo cool to have the kestrel 'following you around from perch to perch' like that!*




(*the picture I'd really like to see is of you on the perch)
PhotoJet
03-02-2009, 07:21 PM
^^^ I think Jeanette said it all! Wonderful images, and it must have been sooo cool to have the kestrel 'following you around from perch to perch' like that!*




(*the picture I'd really like to see is of you on the perch)

Unless of course the Kestrel had mistaken him for dinner...:Brad:
hahaha!!!
MissMia
03-02-2009, 07:34 PM
Stunning! The #4 gets my vote, but only by a slim margin.
Lord Montagu the 3rd
03-04-2009, 05:02 PM
cheers

never saw a Hare but I wasn't looking for it :lol:
Overread
03-04-2009, 05:40 PM
hehe does that hare even exist = or had that kestrel finished it off whilst no one was looking?