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I'm just itching...

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Posted by Tim Munsey on February 17, 2007 at 2:06 PM
I'm just itching...
Never had such a treat, this flew and settled just in front of me in bright sunshine as opposed to occasional rain forcast, and so I just fired away, both guns blazing.

Cheers now

Tim
Old gun, D2H and 800mm, 1/640th at F/7.1
Posted by Alan Bryant on February 17, 2007 at 2:34 PM
WOW thats got to be the best shot i've seen of the Slimbridge Bittern.

Fantastic :toast:
Posted by Tom_W on February 17, 2007 at 2:37 PM
Not Slimbridge today :wink:

If it was today? Potteric Carr? Attenborough?
Posted by Alan Bryant on February 17, 2007 at 2:39 PM
oops i do appoligise :redface: :cool:
Posted by Kevin Lewis on February 17, 2007 at 5:19 PM
love the way the crest is raised (or caught by the wind maybe?) Beautiful image
Posted by Justin on February 17, 2007 at 5:49 PM
What a great oppurtunity,and what a fine image to come away with. :toast:
Posted by Justin on February 17, 2007 at 5:49 PM
What a great oppurtunity,and what a fine image to come away with. :toast:
Posted by Sean Bolton on February 17, 2007 at 6:09 PM
Hi Tim

Nice one. :toast:

And how come you had some sunshine??? Slimbridge was murk central today. :frown:

cheers

Sean
Posted by Vincent Jones on February 17, 2007 at 6:41 PM
Nice one Tim, just shows how good the D2H still is, love the hair-do or was he ducking from the 800 being swung about:biggrin:

A shot to be chuffed to bits with

Vince :toast:
Posted by Barrie Courtenay on February 18, 2007 at 4:35 AM
Hi Tim

Great shot,you must be well pleased with this........... :toast:

Barrie
Posted by Rene de Heer on February 18, 2007 at 5:09 AM
Some people just get lucky! Lovely pose!
Rene de Heer
Posted by Philip Kirkham on February 18, 2007 at 12:27 PM
Excellent Tim.
Best wishes
Phil :toast: :toast: :toast:
Posted by PhilH on February 19, 2007 at 3:41 AM
Nice action, just wondering is this quite a large crop from the venerable D2H?

:toast:
Posted by Tim Munsey on February 19, 2007 at 4:07 AM
Hi Phil,
I guess its about 40-50% of the original. This pic is looking fragile mainly because I processed it to file upload rather than link, so its under 100K. I've printed it out at A3 and it looks OK to me. Plenty more shots are on my site, including a D2X one, looking back I wish I had swopped lenses and put the 800mm on the D2X. Still plenty of D2X shots with it in classical pose.

Tim
Posted by PhilH on February 19, 2007 at 5:44 AM
Cheers Tim.... thats what I thought... A superb series on your website too, images to be very pleased with.

All the best :wavey:

Phil