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Day 302 and my last lens - No. 49. Unless of course I buy any more lenses from now until the end of the year...
I have to say that I was quite surprised and pleased with this len's bokeh.
Olympus E-600, with Photax-Paragon 35 mm f2.8 wide angle manual focus legacy lens in M42 mount on M42 to 4/3rds adapter @ f2.8, 1/25s exposure, ISO100.
Composed using LiveView and Manual focussing, tripod mounted, lit by my very old Vivitar 283 flash with Soft Light/Bounce Diffuser bracket, and grey side of bounce board, held directly above, flash triggered by CTR-301P radio trigger/receiver.
Image is 'straight out of the camera' (SOOC) with absolutely no post-processing except downsizing/resizing in Irfanview.
The only real reason I took this photo was due to walking past the squirrel multiple days in a row. I had the idea of taking more photos of it as it decayed, but I got lazy and realized it would be sort of hard to frame it exactly right each time.
I seem to remember taking this with an Olympus OM1 loaded with Ilford XP2.
Another set of pictures I found in a folder, and I have no idea why they are there - I've long forgotten, and there's no common theme or time. Some of these images are 20 years old.
I have little idea of which camera or lens, but I would say they are all taken with a classic manual focus lens on a digital camera of some sort.
The Mute Swan (Cygnus olor) is a species of swan, and thus a member of the duck, goose and swan family Anatidae. It is native to much of Europe and Asia, and (as a rare winter visitor) the far north of Africa. It is also an introduced species in North America, Australasia and southern Africa. The name 'mute' derives from it being less vocal than other swan species. Measuring 125 to 170 centimetres in length, this large swan is wholly white in plumage with an orange bill bordered with black. It is recognisable by its pronounced knob atop the bill.
The Mute Swan was first formally described by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin as Anas olor in 1789, and was transferred by Johann Matthäus Bechstein to the new genus Cygnus in 1803. It is the type species of the genus Cygnus. Both cygnus and olor mean "swan" in Latin; cygnus is related to the Greek kyknos. The synonym Sthenelides olor has occasionally been used in the past.
Despite its Eurasian origin, its closest relatives are the Black Swan of Australia and the Black-necked Swan of South America, not the other Northern Hemisphere swans. The species is monotypic with no living subspecies.
Mute swan subfossils, 6,000 years old, are found in post-glacial peat beds of East Anglia, Great Britain. They have also been recorded from Ireland east to Portugal and Italy, and from France, 13,000 BP (Desbrosse and Mourer-Chauvire 1972-1973). The paleosubspecies Cygnus olor bergmanni, which differed only in size from the living bird, is known from fossils found in Azerbaijan.
Fossils of swan ancestors more distantly allied to the Mute Swan have been found in four US states: California, Arizona, Idaho and Oregon. The timeline runs from the Miocene to the late Pleistocene, or 10,000 BP. The latest find was in Anza Borrego Desert, a national park in California. Fossils from the Pleistocene include Cygnus paloregonus from Fossil Lake, Oregon, Froman's Ferry, Idaho, and Arizona, referred to by Howard in Waterfowl of the World pp. 262–265 as "probably the mute type swan".
The largest Mute Swans are found in the Caspian Sea area, on migration.
Adults of this large swan range from 125 to 170 centimetres (49 to 67 in) long with a 200 to 240 centimetres (79 to 94 in) wingspan. They may stand over 120 centimetres (47 in) tall on land. Males are larger than females and have a larger knob on their bill.
The Mute Swan is one of the heaviest flying birds, with males (known as cobs) averaging about 12 kilograms (26 lb) and the slightly smaller females (known as pens) weighing about 9 kilograms (20 lb). An unusually big Polish cob weighed almost 23 kilograms (51 lb), surpassing the longer-bodied Trumpeter Swan to make it the heaviest waterfowl ever recorded. Its size, orange-reddish bill and white plumage make this swan almost unmistakable at close quarters. Compared to the other Northern white swans, the Mute Swan can easily be distinguished by its curved neck and orange, black-knobbed bill. Unlike most other Northern swan species (who usually inhabit only pristine wetlands without regular human interference), the Mute Swan has, in some parts of the world, become habituated and fearless towards humans. Such swans are often seen at close range in urban areas with bodies of water.
Young birds, called cygnets, are not the bright white of mature adults, and their bill is dull greyish-black, not orange, for the first year. The down may range from pure white to grey to buff, with grey/buff the most common. The white cygnets have a leucistic gene. All Mute Swans are white at maturity, though the feathers (particularly on the head and neck) are often stained orange-brown by iron and tannins in the water.
The morph immutabilis ("Polish Swan") has pinkish (not dark grey) legs and dull white cygnets; as with white domestic geese, it is only found in populations with a history of domestication.
Source: Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mute_swan
Shot at the Doxey Marshes, Stafford, UK.
Tech Info:
Hand-held.
Manual Focus.
100% crop
Sony Alpha A200
Tair 3S MC f/4.5 300mm M42 Manual Focus
ISO: 100
Shutter Speed: 1/1250 sec
Aperture: f/8
Press "L" to View on Black.
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OLYMPUS Zuiko 300mm f4.5 manual focus @ f5.6 on tripod from about 30 feet. No post-processing, no cropping.
ODC: Having fun hunting a fast moving cat with manual focus:) It was really hard and I cannot believe I got this shot through the grass. So happy about it:)