Show your Bird Portraits
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I'm answering to you and the comment of josephanrews: long story short - even in most of the Bulgarian villages (and believe me they are very poor!) I didn't see that wooden, heavily cracked, electricity pylons, heavily loaded with wires that you can see everywhere in Hawaii! And reading what witnesses are saying it looks like many spots of the fire were ignited by fallen electricity pylons and distributed/magnified very fast to the nearby locations by the strong winds. It looks like many years HECO (the Hawaiian electric Co.) and BTW! the Hawaiian Government, didn't care about the danger (in some circumstances) that these pylons are! It just needs the (rare!) circumstances when disaster will came true!
No, I'm not 100% feeling save from fires in dry weather and going out in wet weather with really strong winds (what about a hurricane?!) On other hand it took how many years to happen (still someone have to answer for the lives lost!)?
Concerning the birds: yes climate changes but that change/fires is not the only reason for some birds to be on the brink of disappearing! Warming will elevate the mosquitos in the slopes restricting the territories where the birds will be still safe from Bird Malaria but neither mosquitos or rats, or invasive birds/plants were there without the Humans! And again - on other hand countless species disappeared because of the changes of the Earth climate before humans were even present!
Sorry for the long tirade (not really "long story short"
) but these are things that somehow bother me...
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Eastern Yellow Robin shining in the sun
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Superb Fairy-wren
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Superb Fairy-wren
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I'm just showing this as an example of what you can get for the record squeezing out an enlargement of an image of a bird about 90-100m away using the RF 100-500mm + 1.4xTC on the R7. I thought this was a Hobby perched, a bird I usually see in flight, and here it is upscaled 4x in Topaz AI. I had tried the lens on the R5, which was also with us, but it was far worse at these extreme conditions. To put it in perspective, you would need a 5175mm lens on an R3 to get an image of this size. 
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I'm just showing this as an example of what you can get for the record squeezing out an enlargement of an image of a bird about 90-100m away using the RF 100-500mm + 1.4xTC on the R7. I thought this was a Hobby perched, a bird I usually see in flight, and here it is upscaled 4x in Topaz AI. I had tried the lens on the R5, which was also with us, but it was far worse at these extreme conditions. To put it in perspective, you would need a 5175mm lens on an R3 to get an image of this size.
Impressive result.
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I'm just showing this as an example of what you can get for the record squeezing out an enlargement of an image of a bird about 90-100m away using the RF 100-500mm + 1.4xTC on the R7. I thought this was a Hobby perched, a bird I usually see in flight, and here it is upscaled 4x in Topaz AI. I had tried the lens on the R5, which was also with us, but it was far worse at these extreme conditions. To put it in perspective, you would need a 5175mm lens on an R3 to get an image of this size.
Really impressive, indeed!Impressive result.
Thanks for sharing, Alan.
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Took out the RF 800/11 on the R7 for some distant waders. Instead got some shots of a pair of Little Grebes feeding their chick. I couldn't see the fish until I processed the images!
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Red-cheeked cordon-bleus (uraeginthus bengalus) at our local zoo.
Indoor shots, leading to dark conditions and the white bg.
R6m2@500mm, f/7.1, 1/160, ISO2500
Indoor shots, leading to dark conditions and the white bg.
R6m2@500mm, f/7.1, 1/160, ISO2500
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Red-billed or Senegal firefinch (lagonosticta senegala) at our local zoo.
R6m2@500mm, f/7.1, 1/250, ISO6400
R6m2@500mm, f/7.1, 1/250, ISO6400
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