I was thinking of your shots while I took those. I got a few of them sitting still but they were perched on the grass and wouldn't let me get very close.
I'll try again some day. I like watching them fly around but it's pretty frustrating trying to keep them in the finder when they get close. Cheers, Dave On Feb 28, 2014, at 6:33 pm, knarf <[email protected]> wrote: > Little barnies! > > Look the same as our barn swallows. > > I can never catch them on the wing like that. Great work! > > Cheers, > frank > > On 27 February, 2014 5:02:29 PM EST, David Mann <[email protected]> wrote: >> 5 photos, which are pretty much all near-misses. It's hard enough >> tracking them at 400mm but the AF isn't helping. I'll try again some >> other time. >> >> These little birds are quite pleasant to watch as they skim along just >> above the grass eating insects on the wing. But they change direction >> suddenly and often. >> >> http://gallery.multi.net.nz/gallery/56/#geso >> >> (Before you start thinking I got anywhere near close to them, they're >> all cropped.) >> >> Cheers, >> Dave > > “Analysis kills spontaneity.” -- Henri-Frederic Amiel > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
