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Flowers in my garden, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire. Nikon Df, Carl Zeiss APO Sonnar T* 2/135mm ZF.2.
Shots taken around Himley park in the West Midlands,decided it was time to do a bit of manual focusing so all these are taken on the 400D with a Soligor 135mm f 2.8 MF lens
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"Leica Macro Elmarit 60 2.8 E55" "Leica 60 2.8" "Leica Macro 60" "Leica Macro Elmarit" "Leica Macro" "Leica 60mm" TheGodParticle "Hari Subramanyam" "Manual Focus" MFLenses
tons of rain fell today.
and that equaled no motivation
to do anything really constructive.
ick. i'm hoping tomorrow is brighter!
Shots taken around Himley park in the West Midlands,decided it was time to do a bit of manual focusing so all these are taken on the 400D with a Soligor 135mm f 2.8 MF lens
This mess of a shot just about ended up on the Aperture cutting room floor. The fringing is so bad and nothing is sharp. But, like the runt of the litter, I am fond of it.
Nikkor 200mm f4 with a +1 close-up filter for that special unsharp, chromatic aberration look.
The Pied Kingfisher (Ceryle rudis) is a water kingfisher and is found widely distributed across Africa and Asia. Their black and white plumage, crest and the habit of hovering over clear lakes and rivers before diving for fish makes it distinctive.
This kingfisher is about 17cm long and is white with a black mask, a white supercilium and black breast bands. The crest is neat and the upperparts are barred in black. Several subspecies are recognized within the broad distribution.
It is common throughout sub-Saharan Africa and southern Asia from Turkey to India to China. It is resident, and most birds do not migrate, other than short-distance seasonal movements.
This kingfisher feeds mainly on fish, although it will take crustaceans and large aquatic insects such as dragonfly larvae. It usually hunts by hovering over the water to detect prey and diving vertically down bill-first to capture fish. When not foraging, they have a straight rapid flight and have been observed flying at nearly 32 mph. In Lake Victoria in East Africa the introduction of the Nile perch reduced the availability of haplochromine cichlids which were formerly the preferred prey of these birds.
They can deal with prey without returning to a perch, and so can hunt over large water bodies or in estuaries that lack perches that are required by other kingfishers. Unlike some kingfishers, it is quite gregarious, and forms large roosts at night.
The breeding season is February to April. Its nest is a hole excavated in a vertical mud bank about five feet above water. The nest tunnel is 4 to 5 feet deep and ends in a chamber. Several birds may nest in the same vicinity. The usual clutch is 3-6 white eggs. The pied kingfisher sometimes reproduces co-operatively, with young non-breeding birds from an earlier brood assisting parents or even unrelated older birds. In India, nestings have been found to be prone to maggot infestations (probably by Protocalliphora sp.) and in some areas to leeches