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Sep 7, 2020 14:24:00   #
JRiepe Loc: Southern Illinois
 
Great shot. Most of the images I post are old but they're not old to the members viewing them for the first time.

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Sep 7, 2020 14:25:56   #
robertjerl Loc: Corona, California
 
randave2001 wrote:
The download is super sharp.


Thanks, I have a thing about sharpness and details in the feathers etc.

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Sep 7, 2020 14:30:34   #
robertjerl Loc: Corona, California
 
Abo wrote:
Nice work Rob.

I enjoyed viewing your great shot of a wonderful chordate... that has about 70%
of its genes in common with us... thanks for posting.

If you've got any more like that in your "archives", I'd be pleased to view them.


Thank you. "chordate", I didn't think anyone out of academia used that word?

I will keep it up. Each day I devote about an hour to combing my archives. And if I will just get motivated to set up the film scanner I bought and start scanning I have a stack of about 10 file boxes of slides and negatives going back into the 60's plus a couple of boxes of old family photos that need to be scanned.

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Sep 7, 2020 14:31:02   #
robertjerl Loc: Corona, California
 
Dr J wrote:
Excellent! 👏🏻


Thank you.

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Sep 7, 2020 14:32:10   #
robertjerl Loc: Corona, California
 
sscnxy wrote:
Robert,
I don't care when you took these photos. You took them and are sharing them, so comments such as what you referred to are inane, to say the least. I and many others truly appreciate your sharing the data of how you shot the photos also, so that we can improve our own practices. Thanks again for posting ageless photos.

NMY


Thank you so very much, I will keep it up until I run out of archives or something stops me.

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Sep 7, 2020 14:36:51   #
robertjerl Loc: Corona, California
 
Architect1776 wrote:

Nice shot and like the way you discretely put your name in a corner so as to not distract.


Thanks. Long ago I read an article in a photo magazine that suggested putting your name somewhere in an image that wouldn't effect the viewing with the copyright symbol and year. People could still rip off images and edit the name out but as long as you had the original negative or OOC digital file it gave you a chance to contest them - not as well as if you went to the trouble to register the copyright but better than nothing. If I was a pro and sold images I would register a copy right for any images I sold.

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Sep 7, 2020 14:42:49   #
robertjerl Loc: Corona, California
 
bluezzzzz wrote:
Fine image and story to go along with it. Thanks!

We've got the Eastern Phoebe version here in Ky. They are very similar, but not quite as strikingly pretty as yours. Same habits; very fun to watch. Nearly every year we have a pair nest here, usually under our side porch roof!

Very good idea to go back and re-edit old files using new tools and techniques...that's something I want to try also.

Marshall


Thank you so much.

"Stamping Ground' KY, where is that? My hometown is Barlow in Ballard County. I have been in CA since the 1960 with a period back in Kentucky for 12th grade (class of '63) and my first two years of college. Then back to CA and of course a 3 year vacation with the Army 66-69.

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Sep 7, 2020 14:43:20   #
robertjerl Loc: Corona, California
 
Country Boy wrote:
Outstanding capture!


Thanks very much.

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Sep 7, 2020 14:44:48   #
robertjerl Loc: Corona, California
 
Retired CPO wrote:
Beautiful bird, beautiful photo. Tell them to go suck an egg.


Thanks a lot. They can suck one, I prefer scrambled with diced onion and a bit of salsa mixed in.

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Sep 7, 2020 14:46:22   #
robertjerl Loc: Corona, California
 
JRiepe wrote:
Great shot. Most of the images I post are old but they're not old to the members viewing them for the first time.


Thanks, that is my belief also, and if I didn't date them in my signature most people have no clue how to pull up the exif to see the date.

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Sep 7, 2020 15:43:48   #
merrytexan Loc: georgia
 
robertjerl wrote:
Black Phoebe - Sayornis nigricans

This little guy was perched on a low branch watching for insects over the water at the park pond. It never stayed still for long, branch to sprinkler head to rock by the water in a circuit with occasional dives to snatch a snack mid-air or off the water.
They are usually near small streams, or lakes and ponds, even your Koi Pond. I have seen them perch around my pool and "rescue" insects from drowning or snatch them out of mid air over the pool. They will also hunt in tide pools by the beach and salt water marshes. They do not come to feeders unless you are offering meal worms and they happen to see them while hunting insects in your yard.

One article I read called them the "Tuxedo Bird". My thought was they look like the head waiter at a fancy eatery as they perch and watch for a meal.

7DII, 100-400L mk1 @ 400, 1/1250 @ f/8, ISO-320 hand held just before noon on a February day.

Someone on another site got after me for posting old pictures and not new ones. Well I will be 75 next month, have health related vulnerabilities and Covid keeps me home. I have only gone off our property eight times since Feb, six of those to medical appointments. And it is hotter than 😈 here so I am not in the yard taking pictures (118 yesterday, 116 today). So I am searching my archives and then going to the OOC version in LR and re=editing using new apps.
Black Phoebe - Sayornis nigricans br br This litt... (show quote)


such a beautifully done shot of that beautiful bird, robert...i enjoy your bird shots so much no matter when
you took them!

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Sep 7, 2020 15:59:19   #
robertjerl Loc: Corona, California
 
merrytexan wrote:
such a beautifully done shot of that beautiful bird, robert...i enjoy your bird shots so much no matter when
you took them!


Thanks so much.

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Sep 8, 2020 10:44:35   #
Blair Shaw Jr Loc: Dunnellon,Florida
 
robertjerl wrote:
Black Phoebe - Sayornis nigricans

This little guy was perched on a low branch watching for insects over the water at the park pond. It never stayed still for long, branch to sprinkler head to rock by the water in a circuit with occasional dives to snatch a snack mid-air or off the water.
They are usually near small streams, or lakes and ponds, even your Koi Pond. I have seen them perch around my pool and "rescue" insects from drowning or snatch them out of mid air over the pool. They will also hunt in tide pools by the beach and salt water marshes. They do not come to feeders unless you are offering meal worms and they happen to see them while hunting insects in your yard.

One article I read called them the "Tuxedo Bird". My thought was they look like the head waiter at a fancy eatery as they perch and watch for a meal.

7DII, 100-400L mk1 @ 400, 1/1250 @ f/8, ISO-320 hand held just before noon on a February day.

Someone on another site got after me for posting old pictures and not new ones. Well I will be 75 next month, have health related vulnerabilities and Covid keeps me home. I have only gone off our property eight times since Feb, six of those to medical appointments. And it is hotter than 😈 here so I am not in the yard taking pictures (118 yesterday, 116 today). So I am searching my archives and then going to the OOC version in LR and re=editing using new apps.
Black Phoebe - Sayornis nigricans br br This litt... (show quote)


Lovely Image Robert......well done sir.

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Sep 8, 2020 12:05:16   #
J-SPEIGHT Loc: Akron, Ohio
 
robertjerl wrote:
Black Phoebe - Sayornis nigricans

This little guy was perched on a low branch watching for insects over the water at the park pond. It never stayed still for long, branch to sprinkler head to rock by the water in a circuit with occasional dives to snatch a snack mid-air or off the water.
They are usually near small streams, or lakes and ponds, even your Koi Pond. I have seen them perch around my pool and "rescue" insects from drowning or snatch them out of mid air over the pool. They will also hunt in tide pools by the beach and salt water marshes. They do not come to feeders unless you are offering meal worms and they happen to see them while hunting insects in your yard.

One article I read called them the "Tuxedo Bird". My thought was they look like the head waiter at a fancy eatery as they perch and watch for a meal.

7DII, 100-400L mk1 @ 400, 1/1250 @ f/8, ISO-320 hand held just before noon on a February day.

Someone on another site got after me for posting old pictures and not new ones. Well I will be 75 next month, have health related vulnerabilities and Covid keeps me home. I have only gone off our property eight times since Feb, six of those to medical appointments. And it is hotter than 😈 here so I am not in the yard taking pictures (118 yesterday, 116 today). So I am searching my archives and then going to the OOC version in LR and re=editing using new apps.
Black Phoebe - Sayornis nigricans br br This litt... (show quote)

Excellent image Jerry

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Sep 8, 2020 12:10:24   #
Susan yamakawa
 
😂beans and birds

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