Self Assignment: "A Country Mile"

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Mike D90

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Feeling frustrated with my bird photography I needed to get out and do something different. I assigned myself a photography adventure, "A Country Mile". This will be a series that I will continue and add too occasionally.

I took my camera (D90), one lens (Nikkor AF 35-105mm) and a tripod. That is it. I headed out into the back country roads near my home and went to work.

Today was an absolutely beautiful day with great sun and times of overcast with pillow like clouds.





Hay Bales.jpg

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Old Barn.jpg

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dramtastic

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I still believe you're only one better lens away from being a good bird shooter Mike, you're doing everything else right. Nice captures today, I especially like the very first one. Birds will either drive you to drink, or, to shooting something else. After 4 hours on the birding trail this morning, currently I'm on the drink! :rapture:
 
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Mike D90

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dramtastic said:
I still believe you're only one better lens away from being a good bird shooter Mike, you're doing everything else right. Nice captures today, I especially like the very first one. Birds will either drive you to drink, or, to shooting something else. After 4 hours on the birding trail this morning, currently I'm on the drink! :rapture:
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Thank you sir! I initially shot that for the November Assignment "rule of thirds" but after cropping it the way I saw it it didn't exactly fit the thirds like I wanted.

The way I was shooting birds had me too captive at one spot. I was shooting 150 frames of nearly the identical thing. I wanted to get out and use other functions of my camera and other settings.
 
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dramtastic

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He He,
Was home at 11am, took 3 hours just to delete the shots I didn't like and by 5PM after post processing, I think I have the one's I want to keep. The shot's I think could go into Nat Geo Mag, One!(and that's only my opinion, they'd probably hate it). Shoes and socks were dripping from swamp water, legs covered in mud, bitten umpteen times by mosquitoes. Ah the joy of birding!
 
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