Weaver - hit or miss?

After visiting Emil and Jax, I somehow managed to put my keys in my boot, close the boot and then hit the lock button on the key...? Only I could do this...so dont ask.
Nonetheless I was stranded under a tree of weavers so took some pics...
What do you think? Hit or miss? Tim Matthis

Lapwing in Flight

This is a pic I shot of a flying lapwing (blacksmith). I know its a sucky shot, but I thought it was interesting to see the spurs on the wings compared with the one on the shot you took of the wattled lapwing. Makes you realise they must have come from the same founding stock back in their evolutionary history

Plover - and call for posts

For a long time now it's been a goal of mine to capture birds in flight, and/or avian behaviour. This is extremely difficult without long AF lenses...but not impossible. One of the winning images from this years BWPY is of a Hoopoe flying towards its nest, taken with a wide angle lens (admittedly via remote).

Here's one of my shots from last week of a wattled plover in flight. D200 with an 80-200, f2.8, but cropped in to about 1/2 frame.

A note to all - please post shots for crit. This is an opportunity to get comments on images and thereby improve one's photography, rather than stashing images away on a hardrive that never get displayed. If you know of other photographers who are interested in joining the group, please pass on their details. If you have something you'd like to say about photography in general, speak up. If you have a question about a technique, ask - someone on the blog will most likely be able to answer it. Just as an example, the blog already has three professional photographers, covering topics from journalism through to food, stock and weddings. There's also something of an IT specialist and another who is involved in tourism...so ask away. Your points may just be answered.

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November's theme and a macro post

Apologies for the long delay in getting this month's theme out. Hopefully November will have more posts than last month. To make it easy, since it's so late, the theme is water for November. Make it slow, freeze the action, do it underwater...whatever floats your boat really.

for the interim here's a shot from the other day that I'm quite chuffed with. I found these guys hanging onto a pair dying twigs in Pongola. As the wind was blowing we were able to move them in away from the wind and use a set up of three flashguns (1 diffused with a large bounce panel and the other two dialed right down to just add fill). Jackie held one fill light while her dad held the other. The main source was attached via an arm to the camera. What do you think? Any suggestions for PS?

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