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Lucky! Neat critter.
1 week agoYikes!
1 week agoBeautiful spot, great photos!
1 week agoGreat photo! A little, ‘welcome to Australia’ from the wildlife. I would have failed to keep my cool.
1 week agoHeavy rain in Carnarvon Gorge yesterday as well. More predicted for today.
1 week agoRe traffic, may be rain further south (from where you are) has curtailed some of it.
Caravanning friends from Canberra were heading towards The Savannah Way, but only made it as far as Moree before deciding to turn back home due to the current and forecast rain
It is apparently the longest range in a single country!
1 week agoYes, the only thing great about it is the length.
1 week agoI have a kickstand, so it is easy to park the bike and grab my stuff out of the handlebar bag. I sometimes use the saddle of the bike as a "beanbag" to get a steadier shot.
My apologies that my replies are piecemeal.
Most of my situational photos are done with my cellphone. Some are nicked from Leigh's cellphone.
2 weeks agoI often stop and haul the camera out, usually having grabbed the binos from on top of them first to have a decko. Mostly this is to get a record shot to help confirm the ID of the bird but sometimes I get lucky and the conditions are suitable to get a better shot. Often the bird flies off before I can get a shot! I have three presets saved in the camera for static, moving and focus tracking shots with different focus zones, aperture and ISO settings etc for each but I often adjust exposure compensation on the fly.
2 weeks agoMarc, that is tremendously informative and helpful to me. Thanks for taking the time to do the photos. Let me trouble you with a follow-up about how you use this.
I see that you have done birding days, from a blind, and I get that. But how about for example the Black Shouldered Kite on April 24. Did you spot this, put on your brakes without squeaking, dismount, unwrap the camera, and the bird waited for you to find it in the view finder, focus and shoot, and maybe have second thoughts about the exposure compensation, and shoot again? These are all areas that trouble me considerably!
How about that ute from the other. day, did you you shoot with the Leica, or a cell phone or point and shoot? There has to be another camera in the mix, such as to give the illustrations of the main camera that we have here!
Sorry to be a bug!
Hi Steve. I use an M43 setup that fits into my handlebar bag. M43 stands for micro four thirds, a format supported by OM (previously known as Olympus) ans Panasonic with lenses also provided by the best glass makers around, Leica. M43 effectively doubles the focal length in relation to full frame DSLR cameras. So my Panasonic GX85 paired with a Leica 100-400mm lens gives me an effective 200-800mm lens on a full frame body at a fraction of the size. Using Ortlieb's camera insert, i can fit the camera and lens with sufficient space on the top, bottom and sides for my binoculars (Leica Trin8vid 8x20 - really small!), wallet, passports and mobile phone. The photos I've added to this post should explain the setup.
2 weeks agoI just thought I would jump in here with a question. Until recently I was taking photos on bike trips just to illustrate the narrative. But then I thought better landscapes would be nice, and went to the largest point and shoot that would still fit in a pocket. Then more birds began to creep in, and I am thinking of a bridge superzoom, mainly the Nikon P950. This would eat up my whole handlebar bag, and not be very quickdraw. Where do you store your camera (s) and do you get on foot to use them on planned walks or do you stop the bike, pull a camera, and try for a shot?
2 weeks ago
Nice!
1 week ago