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Subject: Re: [OM] OT Interesting image?
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:43:42 -0500
I forgot to add that this image brought back some very painful memories. 
  During my junior year of high school I worked in a pet shop after 
school and on Saturdays.  One of my tasks was to keep the bird cages 
clean.  One day we got a shipment of about 10 young parakeets (budgies) 
which we kept in one large cage.  They were exceptionally skittish and 
would climb all over each other in the back of the cage trying to get 
away from me when it was cage cleaning time.  Cleaning the cage required 
taking it to the back of the shop and removing a tray at the bottom of 
the cage.  When the tray was out the opening in front was large enough 
to let these small birds out.  But I never worried about that since they 
were so afraid of me that they always cowered together in the back of 
the cage.

Then one day, after removing the tray on the bottom and turning around 
to set it down somewhere I heard a large fluttering of wings.  I turned 
around just in time to see all 10 of the birds making a break for 
freedom by dashing out the hole left by the missing tray.  Wouldn't you 
know it.  The all dashed for the front of the store which has a large 
window covering its entire front.  It doesn't take parakeets very long 
to travel 50 or 60 feet and they can get up to full speed in that 
distance.  Which is what they did.  The I saw and heard each bird go 
splat, pow, bang, thump, whack, crack, twang, oomph, thwack, kerblam. 
It was all over in a few seconds and every bird was dead.  Do this day I 
don't know how I managed to keep my job.  But I did learn a lesson.

Chuck Norcutt



Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> Did the bird survive?
> 
> Chuck Norcutt
> 
> 
> Paul Laughlin wrote:
>> Yesterday, a pigeon flew into the large window in out dining room.  It made 
>> such a loud noise that my wife came down from upstairs to see what had 
>> happened.  When she looked at the window, she said get your camera.  From 
>> where she was standing there was a faint imprint on the window of where the 
>> bird had hit.  After trying several angles and failing, I sent her out with 
>> the multi-reflector with the black side out.  She held it up so as to 
>> provide a black background (more or less) for the imprint.  After some work 
>> in Photoshop to clone out a couple of bright reflections and fix the 
>> corners, I enhanced it a little with Multiply blending mode and curves. 
>> Then sharpened with high-pass filter and soft light.  Just thought  some on 
>> this list might find it interesting.
>> http://www.pbase.com/pelaughlin/image/119800155
>>
>> There is also a faint self portrait in the lower left corner. LOL
>> Paul in Portland OR 
>>
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