Lovely photo, Andrew! Although I don't agree with feeding creatures
at the table, I don't have to suffer the consequences and he is a
sweet little chap.
I would love to get myself a 420/25 combo, but a new iMac prevents
further expenditure ...
Chris
On 2 Jul 2008, at 12:05, Andrew Fildes wrote:
>
> Of course not - he wanted to eat your mice.
> Taming real wildlife is damn near impossible - we have tried with
> kookaburras, possums and cockatoos but they aren't really tame - just
> bold and they just tolerate our feeding them that which is their
> right. I have the bite marks to prove it.
> Speaking of bold, it's not often that you can shoot wildlife with a
> 50mm equivalent lens (D.Zuiko 25/2.8 on E-1) but as I was having
> lunch in the midwinter sunshine on a restaurant terrace yesterday
> (chicken, mushroom and leek pie with salad and potato wedges) this
> character showed up and agree to pose in exxchange for bits of
> chicken from my lunch. Noisy Miner, about starling size but prettier
> and a bit of a clown among Oz birds. Can't hve been more than half a
> metre from the lens for the third shot.
> http://www.pbase.com/afildes/image/99570430
> http://www.pbase.com/afildes/image/99570431
> http://www.pbase.com/afildes/image/99570432
> Andrew Fildes
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