Shawn,
could you PLEASE set up another gallery? A very virtual one this time, for
perfectly missed perfect shots!
This morning at dawn I was walking the foggy (oh yes, summer IS over!) woods
just outside town to listen to the deer (Cervus elaphus), as it is rutting
season (for the deer that is!). When it got slightly brighter and most of the
'male groaning' was over I discovered a Macro-Paradise in the form of a
soggingly wet meadow strewn with cobwebs that had collected the nights dew and
the morning mist which was still hanging heavy.
So off goes the backpack, out comes the OM-2, 14mm auto-tube, lens, flash, cable
and all the paraphenalia we all love to collect! I must have been kneeling in
the high grass for some 10-15 minutes, trying to find the most photogenic
cobwebs and spiders coping with water droplets etc, getting my trousers wet and
developing 'heartburn in my knee-pits' so I started to rise to strech my legs.
Alas, the legs stayed unstreched for the following few moments, because, as I
was half way up I noticed barely 30m in front of me an elder male deer with huge
antlers framed by two oak trees against the backdrop of morning mist fading into
grey-white nothingness! Gosh, the following two seconds were long! He must have
been at least as surprised as myself. But I guess I started to think quicker
than he did, because after one second of admiring the size of him (and a quick
flash of thought along the lines of 'would you like to be mangled by these
antlers?') I had figured out that this was a perfect shot for something in
between 100 and 200mm. Next thought: here you stand with your macro-setup in
hands, NO WAY!! And 'yes I will shell out the money for the 100/2.8 Macro',
Monday I will! I will RUN to get it!
I think the deer must have taken up this line of thought somehow, because the 2
seconds were over and off he went. What a beautiful and elegant sight!
This won't happen to me again (most probably not I'm afraid), next time I'll
have the 100mm mounted!
You see (!) Shawn, we have to have a second gallery! Perhaps we could supply
drawings ;-)
Sorry for rambling,
Soenke, Hamburg
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