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It takes 2 to Tango (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter bill moss
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Renee Redstart
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What a fantastic piece of art!
Renee Redstart
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The Avatar, Ant. Been meaning to ask. Is it a false leg or what?
Linda Beaumont
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Bonsoir, cher Bill - just wanted to say "WOW" in response to your photo... :t:
You always WERE good at getting the birds in flight to pose for you, but this one must have taken a great deal of patience and gnashing of teeth (oops!). Hope you rewarded the ducks properly afterwards... you didn't have them for dinner afterwards, I presume (knowing how partial you are to a bit of "duck with orange")?
(aren't I the cheeky one?) o
Have a lovely evening - hopefully a bit warmer than over here (last night the temperature dropped to minus 10 degrees C, and it's never got to more than 0 today).
Love - Chanteuse :loveme:
You always WERE good at getting the birds in flight to pose for you, but this one must have taken a great deal of patience and gnashing of teeth (oops!). Hope you rewarded the ducks properly afterwards... you didn't have them for dinner afterwards, I presume (knowing how partial you are to a bit of "duck with orange")?
(aren't I the cheeky one?) o
Have a lovely evening - hopefully a bit warmer than over here (last night the temperature dropped to minus 10 degrees C, and it's never got to more than 0 today).
Love - Chanteuse :loveme:
Judo
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Bill,
WOW, you clever so-and-so, WHAT a picture, what fantastic Luck. Congratulations. Bet you couldn't believe your own luck when you saw that in your lens!! Well done. The mantra working in spades, eh Bill!
I'm full of admiration, and as the young people say: "Respect"! :t:
Judo.
WOW, you clever so-and-so, WHAT a picture, what fantastic Luck. Congratulations. Bet you couldn't believe your own luck when you saw that in your lens!! Well done. The mantra working in spades, eh Bill!
I'm full of admiration, and as the young people say: "Respect"! :t:
Judo.
Wendy Morris
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bill moss said:
Nice one, Bill
I`ve never heard the expression about being able to knit fog before, but I like it and will make every attempt to incorporate it into conversation!
Sue Wright
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Hi Bill,
Now that looks as though it's from the Torvill & Dean Balero ice skating routine if you ask me. A great picture and amazing choreography!!!!
Love, Sue
Now that looks as though it's from the Torvill & Dean Balero ice skating routine if you ask me. A great picture and amazing choreography!!!!
Love, Sue
Hi Bill, what a photo, that's a chance in a million shot. :t: By the way the expression around here is 'plaiting fog' rather than 'knitting fog', we seem to 'knit spaghetti'. Obviously differences in the nature of the fog you get and that we get in Yorkshire (o)<
Hi folks,
Nice to see that you're all as amazed as I am, I wouldn't have believed that flying Ducks got that close to touching.
Despite what Linda may think (no I KNOW that you don't really), I 've got no magic method of getting birds to pose for me, I just point the camera and bang off lots of shots, and hope. This was pure luck. In fact it's not a very good shot of the birds and but for the position it would have been scrapped.
I can't recall whether these were staggered as Peter suggests, one would assume so but looking at the photo I can't work out which would be the nearer. By size (perspective) the top one looks smaller but the left wingtip appears to be this side of the lower one's tip, which suggests that the upper bird is nearer than the lower, but it can't be by much judging from the right wingtips. I have to think that they were almost vertically placed.
Can't hope for anything as spectacular again but you never know, watch this space.
Bill.
Nice to see that you're all as amazed as I am, I wouldn't have believed that flying Ducks got that close to touching.
Despite what Linda may think (no I KNOW that you don't really), I 've got no magic method of getting birds to pose for me, I just point the camera and bang off lots of shots, and hope. This was pure luck. In fact it's not a very good shot of the birds and but for the position it would have been scrapped.
I can't recall whether these were staggered as Peter suggests, one would assume so but looking at the photo I can't work out which would be the nearer. By size (perspective) the top one looks smaller but the left wingtip appears to be this side of the lower one's tip, which suggests that the upper bird is nearer than the lower, but it can't be by much judging from the right wingtips. I have to think that they were almost vertically placed.
Can't hope for anything as spectacular again but you never know, watch this space.
Bill.
Chickadeedeedee
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:hi: Bill.
Brilliant timing! That is one fantastic picture.
Lydia :t:
Brilliant timing! That is one fantastic picture.
Lydia :t:
