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Curlew Sandpiper

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Posted by Karen Summers on September 28, 2010 at 4:18 PM
Curlew Sandpiper
Another of the Curlew Sandpiper I was able to creep up on

1DMK4, Canon 500f4L + 1.4 convertor ISO 400, f6.3, 1/1250
Posted by John Robinson on September 28, 2010 at 4:21 PM
Really nice !
JR
Posted by Paul Rosser on September 28, 2010 at 4:25 PM
Lovely image, and great comp. I must get out and do some Waders myself! Well done Karen. :toast:
Regards,
Paul. :wavey:
Posted by PhilH on September 28, 2010 at 4:48 PM
Prefer this to your previous image Karen, just needed a little bit more of a head turn towards you... I much prefer this viewpoint as I felt that it was a little bit high (for my taste) in your first image of this splendid bird,

:toast: :wavey: :toast:
Posted by David Sewell on September 28, 2010 at 5:02 PM
Phil has said it already, so I won't repeat it. Nice one, Karen.

David
Posted by Maggie Campbell on September 28, 2010 at 5:08 PM
Spot on Karen. :wavey:
Posted by Ian Macdermott on September 28, 2010 at 5:34 PM
Hi

really good pov and comp :toast:

Agree about the head turn but thay are not always so obliging :wink:
Posted by Geoffrey Baker on September 28, 2010 at 6:04 PM
Another great capture Karen, a great series you have here. :smile:
Well done.

Geoff.
Posted by Dale Sutton on September 29, 2010 at 2:37 AM
Another super capture of this lovely bird Karen.

Dale :toast:
Posted by Andrew Parkinson on September 29, 2010 at 5:40 AM
Hi Karen

I don't want to be a pov bully but whenever I see an image like this my mind immediately turns to what it could have been had you been able to get lower. You might have got soaked through, you might have been really uncomfortable and you would definitely have got sand on your tripod mount but I also think that you'd have made an even stronger image. Of course none of this might have been possible so I'll just shut up! Just a thought though.

Andy
Posted by Karen Summers on September 29, 2010 at 5:58 AM
thanks Andrew whenever I can I would prefer to get as low as I can I love that style but on these occasions with the curlew I couldn t, like you said I would have been lying in the water and he was constantly on the move (by the time I would have lay down he would be half way up the beach)so other than rolling along which we know would be out of the question I couldn t do anything else, had there have been some on the sandbanks I could have got to just resting I would have been lying on the floor getting as low as I could, but sometimes you just can t do it, so I do understand where you are coming from :smile:
Posted by David Kjaer on September 29, 2010 at 6:57 AM
Another really nice CS image.

David :toast: