Cloudy day pictures of feathered friends

[buzzsaw]

I went down to Tom & Hobby's spot over lunch today and was able to get a few pics.

I like this one.

The Angel on the lake.

Windmaker. ISO 400 in low light made for a kinda neat wing tip blur.

Full frame side shot.

[lablover47]

Beautiful shots! I do a bit of photography myself and I'm jealous. Digital or film camera?

[Steve Foss]

Welcome lablover. Good to see you here.

People posting pics are almost all digital shooters. Buzz, Tom Wilson and Hobbydog are Nikon fans, while WifeKidsandDog and I shoot Canon.

[buzzsaw]

Great first post Lablover! Thanks and I'm certain you'll like alot of what you see here.... Tom Hobby, Catfish, Jonny, Bullyfish and Cheryl as well as many others do a good job of adding photo's as well as helpful information under the photo and/or Birding threads.

P.S. Blaze shoots Nikon now too.

[Tom Wilson]

LL47,

Nice to have another new camera buff on the site. Can't wait to see some images. BTW, Buzz is shooting those with a Nikon D50 plus various lenses. I believe most of the posters here are shooting Nikon including myself. Catfish shoots with Canon gear and he is a fine representative for their equipment. Jonny R If I remember is shooting with a fuji digital. Good to have you here.

Tom W

[lablover47]

Well, privately I'm still a film user, and I'm starting to feel pretty old-fashioned about it! My camera is an old Minolta X-700. However, I'm also a newspaper reporter/photographer, and use a digital for that--so I definitely see the advantages. (Also far less chance of shooting a whole story, going home, and THEN discovering there was no film in the camera. Oh yes; I've done it.)Anyway, I'm new to this site, obviously, and haven't quite figured it out. I was surprised to see things on here besides fishing, so I must have missed something in the intitial perusal. Everyone sounds friendly and fun, and I think I'm going to like it here.

[Steve Foss]

Hey ll,

I'm also a newspaper slob. Fourteen years in dailies and weeklies, and I edit the Ely Timberjay newspaper now. You should have a lot of fun on this site. We are all learning as we go. Some days we teach, some days we learn. The luckiest days are when we can do both.