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3 hours ago, david strachan said:

Another amazing wildlife picture Mike...I can't get enough natural history stuff.

Love the backlighting on the sliver dribble, grasses and bright hair.

Very superb; with the wider context.

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Thanks David appreciate your comment, I managed get this shot just before the sun dipped below the horizon.

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Olive Bee-eater (Merops superciliosus),  in the coastal forest on Benguerra Island, Mozambique. The 90-280mm is generally too short for birds, this Bee-eater was only about 7m away.

SL-2S Reporter & VE90-280mm

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Olive Snouted Grass Snake (non-venomous) in the wild, Zuka Game Reserve

SL2 & VE 90-280mm L @ 280mm

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Gorilla photographed at Animal Kingdom near Orlando, Florida USA. SL2 with 90-280mm.

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Female Leopard @ Ngala Game Reserve, South Africa. We found her late at night with an antelope which she had killed & taken high up a tree so that Hyenas & Lions couldn't steal it. 

SL2-S & VE Leica 90-280mm L @ 144mm f3.2  ISO12, 500  1/160s.   

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SL2-S ~ VE 90-280 @ 280mm

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SL2-S ~ VE 90-280 @ 280mm

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Train Art Saturday - SL2S VE 90-280 @ 160mm

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Was woken up this morning by the weird gurgling sounds of a ptarmigan. I later found them outside sitting on a branch eating buds. They stayed there for more than an hour, and allowed me to get pretty close. I did not want to bother it, so I did not try to get any closer than I did, but with the 90-280 at 280, it still allowed me to get in close. This is uncropped, other than aspect ratio. If you are curious to hear their weird sounds, you can listen here. What I heard was the display call.

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Rock_Ptarmigan/sounds

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This is a 100% crop of the head, after using enhance details and super resolution. The lens is quite fantastic at this work, and great that there is no fringing either, as the bird was backlit with an overcast sky behind it, with the branches as well. I think most telephoto zooms would struggle with chromatic aberration in these conditions. I should add that it was handheld too, so lots of thanks to the stabilization!

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Boodalang Waarnk (Pelican Stories)  SL2 with 90-280 at 280

Recently have joined Bird Photography pages and noticed how the sharpest and very close up images seem to be a standard goal for most photographers. Well, sharp is good in any situation however closely cropped images tend to be unimaginative and lacking any "story" going on. Stuart's images above might highlight what I am saying. I really like the first image showing the birds natural perch but the 100% crop or images like them prove nothing except for the fact that a particular lens is super sharp or the person knows how to use Topaz AI. So I thought it must be a "norm" or an unspoken standard to get very close and or crop closely to the subject as these are the most liked type of images on social media. Shooting "small in the frame" allows me to add the landscape element and place the bird into the context of nature. 

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Surveying its Surroundings- White-backed Vulture (Gyps africanus) on a flat grey early evening @ Zuka Game Reserve South Africa   -SL2 & VE90-280mm

These vultures are highly endangered. Over the past 25 years they've suffered a devastating population decline of approx. 90%.  All human-related, primarily deforestation (loss of nesting sites) & poisoning incl. from pesticides.

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Ibis in a Tree - Not the most enjoyed bird in the animal kingdom but at least it has a name that refers to a camera function. I had less success with focus setting on tracking mode this morning so I will switch it back to field.

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Winter Sun  - SL2 

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Some from a recent event shoot.

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10 hours ago, Geoff C. Bassett said:

Some from a recent event shoot.

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Well done Geoff, very good focus sharpness for event style portraits. Was there a reason you used the VE 90-280? Not the ideal choice of lens for such work although you have used it very well indeed. I love the lens as many others do and could easily understand why one would want to use it for every occasion. 

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23 hours ago, Ken Abrahams said:

Well done Geoff, very good focus sharpness for event style portraits. Was there a reason you used the VE 90-280? Not the ideal choice of lens for such work although you have used it very well indeed. I love the lens as many others do and could easily understand why one would want to use it for every occasion. 

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I would say that those are the most artistic of the photos I shot of the evening. Most were pretty standard groups and the tele was a great option for the speeches that were given at the event, so I could get close ups from the back of the room.  I enjoy the range for event work more than a 70-200 and love it's design in my hand. Thanks autofocus for me is now up to reliable standard with the S5 IIx, and hopefully a future SL3. 

I had the Leica 24-90 to complement it. Here are two shots at 280mm. 

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Sunny day in Rothenburg and a church steeple with bell today in Rothenburg, a middle-age town in Bavaria

Leica SL(601) & 90-280 @ 242mm /ISO50/640s/f3.8

 

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