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This is a re-edit of one of my most watched Flickr videos: "Hunting Wood Ducks with the GH4 in 4K", and includes some "never before seen" footage of the wonderful mother hen who successfully raised all ten ducklings to flying, protecting them from hawks, alligators, fox, bobcat and other predators.
I was shooting from a blind in my backyard with a camo cover over my scope, camera and head. Near the end the hen brought the babies almost directly below my blind, and I could no longer stay behind the camera and use the EVF as the scope was pointing down at such a sharp angle that I would have had to have gotten up, and would have panicked the hen and ducklings. Instead I was able to stay low behind the wall of the blind, and I reached up under the camo cover and flipped out the LCD screen and tilted it down, using the focus peaking feature to keep their ever-so-close faces in focus.
All footage was digiscoped with the camera on manual focus by focusing the scope. My digiscoping system was a Panasonic GH4 +20/1.7 mounted on a Swarovski STX85 scope using the Digidapter.
My latest project is finally taking form!
I'm done with mods and painting, going to have a break now.
The legs and ankles were slightly reshaped in ordr to be slimmer and curvier. The patterns are sculpted with epoxy.
Dollstown Elf body mod boy.
Orange Tip Butterfly ( Anthocharis Cardamines )
the underwing ( closed position ) has a mottled pattern.
Pulling rotor tip vortices in the still-damp air, Odiham based Royal Air Force Boeing Chinook HC.2 ZH777 cavorts around the Waddington skies in the only way a RAF Chinook demo can!
Amazing how they throw that huge beast around!
Back Garden - "sods law" - all the days I've spent over the last couple of weeks sitting ready with the camera, only to see these guys fly through without stopping, today I was actually doing something, (I was dismantling an old garden bench for renovation) my hands were covered in WD-40 and rust, when my wife told me an Orange-tip had just landed - a quick dash indoors to wash my hands, and luckily he was still on the dandelion seed head, I managed a couple of shots but as I was moving to a better position he left. Hopefully there will be more chances.
A few days ago I posted a female Anthocharis cardamines (Linnaeus, 1758). This one is the male of the species with the signature orange pigmentation on its wings and the origin of its common name, i.e. the orange tip.
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Orange Tip - Garden, Hullbridge, Essex. This one or others visited the garden all afternoon. Great to see with the whites as well.
Summers are round the corner. As responsible pet owners, we must anticipate and meet their up-coming needs.
The write-up explains the tips - to keep dogs safe and secure, this summer.
For more information: - flauntpet.com/blog/tips-to-keep-pooch-safe-this-summer
1967 Foden S21 tipper in the livery of Hoveringham, Reg No. KNN 616E at the 2016 Welland steam rally.
Buff Tip. Brilliantly disguised moth. Looks like a piece of twig. July visitor to my moth trap, Hunmanby, North Yorkshire.
The old clay pits at South Godstone for many years were used by British Rail to dispose of old track ballast and engineering site spoil. The location used to be run by the South Eastern Brick & Terra Cotta Co. but when in use as a spoil tip it was run by South Godstone Aggregate Ltd who used to resell some of the better stone to arrive by rail while using the old clay pits to bury the rest.
Throughout the 1980's Godstone tip was booked to receive 3 trains a day, effectively one from each Southern Division as services originated at Woking, Three Bridges and Tonbridge.
Here 33 013 is seen leaving the siding and about to join the mainline with 7Y45 the 14.20 to Tonbridge West Yard. This 33 last a couple more years before being withdrawn on 14/03/89 it was finally disposed of at M.C. Metals scrapyard in Glasgow in June 1991.
Don't know why I hadn't tried this before, but the other day I put the mp-e65 on two sets of extension tubes and cackled maniacally as lightning clashed outside. This is the tip of a ballpoint pen, uncropped. You can see the thickness of ink.
Also, if anybody thinks this doesn't belong in poor man's macro let me know. I feel like the group is based more around trying new techniques than about actual investment in photography equipment but if that's not the case I'll remove it.