David Berry
🇦🇺 Australia 🦘
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Much ado about Nothing?
250 mm | ƒ/9 | 1/1000s | ISO 20000
The squabble, as I recall it: the magpie was drinking from a tiny puddle (note water displaced from its beak) and the kookaburra barged in to grab a morsel to eat, 'knocking' the maggie backwards out of its way. The ornithologists amongst us might be able to provide a forensic interpretation based on wing and claw positions.
It was late in the day, and these two had been squabbling incessantly, so I chose a small aperture in an attempt to get both in focus; and that necessitated a longer exposure time (deliberate) and far too high ISO (auto, so I dared not look).
I'll restrain myself, and not upload the embarrassingly huge number of duds!
… David
I suspect that they wouldn't view their encounter that way!
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250 mm | ƒ/9 | 1/1000s | ISO 20000
Laughing Kookaburra : Dacelo novaeguineae
Australian Magpie : Gymnorhina tibicen
Queensland, Australia
Australian Magpie : Gymnorhina tibicen
Queensland, Australia
The squabble, as I recall it: the magpie was drinking from a tiny puddle (note water displaced from its beak) and the kookaburra barged in to grab a morsel to eat, 'knocking' the maggie backwards out of its way. The ornithologists amongst us might be able to provide a forensic interpretation based on wing and claw positions.
It was late in the day, and these two had been squabbling incessantly, so I chose a small aperture in an attempt to get both in focus; and that necessitated a longer exposure time (deliberate) and far too high ISO (auto, so I dared not look).
I'll restrain myself, and not upload the embarrassingly huge number of duds!
… David
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