I see that the last two shots show two cousins.
Chuck Norcutt
Piers Hemy wrote:
> Fortunately, the E-1 was in my hand when the fisher's cousin paid a visit to
> the currant bushes which are all of 3m from my desk. I was speaking on the
> phone at the time, so these are one-handed grab shots through the window
> (you may spot some reflections). Taken two months ago.
>
> http://www.hemy.me.uk/Miscellany/martes.html
>
> --
> Piers
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Dean Hansen
> Sent: 10 September 2007 04:50
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [OM] And where's the E-1?
>
> I climbed into my elevated deer stand yesterday about 6PM just to sit
> and watch the woods. After a half hour I noticed a small bit of movement,
> and low and behold a fisher walked/jumped into view less than 30' away.
> What's a fisher? Think mink on steroids, or, roughly, a very skinny, but
> very large, cat with short legs. Beautiful animal! It actively poked its
> nose here and there, scampered about, and generally entertained me for over
> a minute. And the E-1? Back in the cabin, regretfully. The fisher finally
> worked its way away from me, but then it turned a 180 and moved up the path
> I had taken to my stand. Closer, closer, until it walked less than 2' away
> from the base of the ladder to my stand. It jumped onto a rotten log all
> but directly below me; it was now no more than 14' away from me, straight
> down. I took my imaginary E-1, cranked the 14-54 lens to 54mm, and took
> some frame-filling, if imaginary, shots. It was an absolutely magic couple
> of minutes. I've never in my 65 years been that close for that long to a
> fisher. But one can't take a photo if one doesn't have a camera along.
> Next time I'm in that stand I'll bring the E-1 along.
> There's a decent (better than anything I took) shot of a fisher at
> www.borealforest.org/zoo/fisher.htm.
> Dean
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