A Purple Finch...

common, but still pretty. slowly but surely, i might be making some progess figuring out this bird photography thing...hope you enjoy...Keith



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http://www.kt.smugmug.com

Nice picture of the finch! I like the pose and it looks pretty sharp too. I'd be happy to get a picture this good of this bird - I haven't seen one here in N. CA yet. I hope to get one if he'll come to my new feeder in the spring
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CJ



'But I don’t want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
'Oh, you can’t help that,' said the Cat. 'We’re all mad here'
Lewis Carroll - Author, Mathematician, Photographer

all you can see is maintenant in progress..

all this talk about pbase outages and smugmug also have outages.

ktny said:

common, but still pretty. slowly but surely, i might be making
some progess figuring out this bird photography thing...hope you
enjoy...Keith



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http://www.kt.smugmug.com

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http://www.pbase.com/zylen

Daniella...

This is the second time in about two years of using smugmug that the site has been down for an material time without previously scheduled downtime. It's a pretty good service and the people are very responsive. When I was comparing pbase and smugmug, (and I used pbase a lot for some dpreview photo challenges), pbase was experiencing real problems with downtime. Maybe it's better now.

In any case, please come back and visit my purple finch - I think it's one of my better recent shots...

Regards...Keith

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http://www.kt.smugmug.com

Spring is just around the corner...but I was hoping to catch some bald eagles in my neck of the woods before it arrives...late January and early February is bald eagle season on the Hudson River in NY about 60 miles north of NYC, but it has been unseasonably warm and there have only been a few around...

Regards...Keith

Here's one from this year, though he was much too far away and its not a good shot at all...



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Nice capture, it looks like a house finch though. Thanks for sharing.
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Axel
My galleries: http://www.pbase.com/axelhi

since you must have one of the most populated bird galleries I've ever seen...lots of good stuff there...

Regards...Keith

(mediocre amateur photographer, totally novice bird person)

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http://www.kt.smugmug.com

ktny said:

Daniella...

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this was mostly a joke

I knwo that pbase has a lot more outages.

now I can see your photo and it's very nice. nice pose and nice detail and composition. It is maybe a little dark?

ktny said:

This is the second time in about two years of using smugmug that
the site has been down for an material time without previously
scheduled downtime. It's a pretty good service and the people are
very responsive. When I was comparing pbase and smugmug, (and I
used pbase a lot for some dpreview photo challenges), pbase was
experiencing real problems with downtime. Maybe it's better now.

In any case, please come back and visit my purple finch - I think
it's one of my better recent shots...

Regards...Keith

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http://www.kt.smugmug.com

Click to expand...

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http://www.pbase.com/zylen