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This is a photo of a regular visitor to my garden. This robin is a cheeky character, he follows me round the garden to see what I'm up to. It was nice to see he'd survived the winter in one piece.
That said, however, he did clearly indicate his disapproval of having a camera lens shoved directly under his beak. :)
Aha, another Blackadder fan, I see! Personally, I suspect I may be more like Baldrick than Edmund himself - although I wash a little more frequently. ;)
Have you tried photographing your blackbirds? I tried some weeks ago, but I didn't get very far - the light wasn't up to much and the photos came out grey and boring. If you've had any success, I'd be very interested to see what you managed to capture, and to find out how you did it. I enjoy photographing birds, but they're not the most cooperative of subjects, I find...
SQirl a strange name? I suppose it is, really. Although I have to confess, it's not my real one. ;)
Well taken SQirl.I have just read your replies to the other comments..patience is usually always rewarded, and Edmund Blackadder would have been proud of your Cunning Plan:):)...Lovely colours and excellent details. I love too the perfect dof which enables the image of the robin to break free from the background. It has been a little while since we had a fearless robin but we were swamped by the blackbirds who arrived early each morning for the ground feeders diet.....looked like a scene from the famous Hitchcock film 'The Birds'. All the best SQirl (such a strange name said stingRay:):)) .....Ray
I didn't actually tweak this photo at all, it's just straight out of the camera (apart from a little cropping to tidy up). I was actually quite pleased the robin posed so nicely for one shot - I took two more, but one is slightly sideways on and in the other, he's quite pointedly showing me his tail feathers.
I have to confess, the first couple of times I tried to capture this little character, I failed because he saw the camera and flew away. So this time, I had a Cunning Plan - I covered the camera with a cloth, and just had the lens uncovered. Then I lay on the lawn and waited for him to come and see what on earth (pun intended!! :) ) I was doing.
I rather think I've used up all my stores of Robin Goodwill for a spell, though. ;)
Great picture...the Robin is really isolated against the background..good use of DOF, nice saturation too..not too much!... people usually seem to try to get the Robins breast as red as can be.. I too have a Robin regularly visit the garden , but unfortunatly he is not so obliging as yours at posing for photographs! :)
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{K:250401} 4/18/2006
