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Breakfast with a friend

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Title     Breakfast with a friend
Photographer     kewaynco/Kenneth (75) Send mail to this user
Portfolio     Animals
F-stop     f/4
Shutter speed     1/30 sec
Categories     Animal
Nature
Rural
Lens     Canon Zoom Lens EF 75-300mm 1:4-5.6
Camera     CANON DIGITAL REBEL
Format     200 asa
Content advisory     G (general audiences)
Submitted     August 25, 2007 2:00:08 PM CDT
Views     390
Rating     2 Thumb-up

We were privileged to have this little friend join us for breakfast this morning. Came within 10 feet of our dining room window. The kid's family was hanging around in our front yard. We watched it for over 1/2 hour.

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Thumb-up Thumb-up    from loonymoon/Carmen (1,940) Send mail to this user on August 25, 2007 2:13:01 PM CDT (2) Early critique

A rare shot. It must be difficult getting a shot like this . A lovely photo, great pose and colours. To me it looks like the body is more in focus than the head, none the less a beautiful picture of a shy animal.

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From kewaynco/Kenneth (75) Send mail to this user on August 25, 2007 2:55:11 PM CDT

One of the benefits of having large windows in the house is the wildlife we get to see. One of the drawbacks is the windows are tinted to block out the sun to some extent. Add that to the day being very cloudy/overcast, I had to use a very slow speed for hand-held (at least in my case). I think the out-of-focus you are seeing is more a shake of the hand. I also cut off the poor guy's feet in the picture. I keep trying to slow down when I have such an opportunity, but it is difficult because I get so excited at the opportunity. As for colors, I wonder if the overcast day made the colors deeper. If someone knows how that works, let me know. All in all, it was a treat this morning. Thanks for the comments.

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From loonymoon/Carmen (1,940) Send mail to this user on August 25, 2007 3:01:31 PM CDT

Possibly motion blur as I'm sure the animal was moving. You are lucky to live in such a location. The rarest thing I got to see was a woodpecker in my garden, it was a bit too far away for my old camera to cope with though. Other than that it's squirrels, domestic cats or trains (we have a train track at the end of the garden!!).

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