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Good sample how great a legacy lens can be, adapted to a mirrorless body! This is a very sharp lens with no issues, except slight color fringing against bright backgrounds. And it's a heavy lens. The use as a tele-macro lens is better than I expected, but I prefer the 105mm Micro Nikkor for closer focusing distance, size and weight.
NIKKOR 180mm f-2.8 ED Ai-S MF & Metabones NF-X-mount Adapter [270mm]
Fall leaves, from the garden. Captured with an old Vivitar Series 1, 105mm Macro, on my Pentax K-1 Mark II. (K1AA7233) In album "Red Alert".
Mockingbirds seem to be aware of everything that goes on around them. I think it is a learned skill; maybe a survival instinct. I mean, you really have to be alert to keep from getting shot because you are singing at 3 AM in the morning!
Bakersfield, California 2010
While photographing the harvest I saw a fawn running in the foreground. You just never know where they'll show up!
.Something has caught the attention of this mother polar bear (Ursus maritimus) and her two large cubs, who minutes earlier had been napping together on a snowy hillside above Hudson Bay, just visible in the background. Perhaps it was a male polar bear that are known to kill unrelated cubs. Churchill, Manitoba.
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Back in the archives again; Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) mom scans the territory during evening hours. Her 4 cubs are in the background. Mashatu Game Preserve; Botswana; Africa; 2019; Canon 7D MII:Canon 100-400mm lens at 200mm; 1/640 sec; f/7.1; ISO 1600; hand held
Alpaca alertness.
While the sheep are rushing in to gain a feed of grain it is the job of the alpaca's to maintain a vigilant overwatch.
Farmers have discovered that these unusual South American camelid mammal's offer a protection to the sheep who would otherwise be exposed to predators such as foxes and birds of prey.
Cumnock, Central West, New South Wales, Australia.
Megaceryle alcyon
Belted Kingfisher - Bandijsvogel (Suriname)
Canon 7D + Canon EF 300mm F2.8 L IS USM + 2x TC
Isn't vitamin C a wonder of nature? Vitamin D is rather marvellous too.
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