Blue Bird of Happiness

http://edwardgruf.com/Digital_Photography/D70/misc/slides/DSC_2624_640.html

Eastern Bluebird, Sialia sialis
D70 + 70-200mm f/2.8G ED-IF AF-S VR Zoom-Nikkor + TC-20E II (2x) AF-S, AF-I
Teleconverter. f/5.6, 1/125 sec

 

Beautiful. I like the way you can see the scene reflected in his
eye a little bit.

Almost tripped my visual spam filter. ;-)

 

Beautiful. I like the way you can see the scene reflected in his
eye a little bit.

Almost tripped my visual spam filter. ;-)

 

I prefer:
http://edwardgruf.com/Digital_Photography/D70/misc/slides/DSC_2244.html

 

*appreciative whistle*

Reminds me of certain fractals. I'd love to hear the story behind
this shot -- but it stands alone.

 

White bird keeping an eye on things!
http://www.tecphoto.com.au/pelican.htm

Nice shot Ed. What part of the world is that in?

Douglas

 

Thank you. You know the real estate phase, "location, location, location?"
This is similar. This is the view out of the local creek towards the
Chesapeake Bay in the morning.

Other shots from the same vantage point:
http://edwardgruf.com/Digital_Photography/CP_990/Normal/reduced/pages/DSCN0439_JPG.htm
http://edwardgruf.com/Digital_Photography/CP_990/Normal/reduced/pages/DSCN2293_JPG.htm
http://edwardgruf.com/Digital_Photography/CP_990/Normal/reduced/pages/DSCN9158_JPG.htm
http://edwardgruf.com/Digital_Photo...educed/pages/Dscn9579_awesome_sunrise_jpg.htm
http://edwardgruf.com/Digital_Photography/CP_5700/Normal/reduced/pages/DSCN0191_JPG.htm

 

These are good too, but I do think that Alan picked out the
best one. I couldn't get "awesome_sunrise" to load; I think
the URL is wrong.

 

Works for me in both IE and NS, Are you sure it didn't wrap? I can be
accessed off of
http://edwardgruf.com/Digital_Photography/CP_990/Normal/reduced/index.htm

 

Yes, I'm sure.

Got it now. Stunning.

 

Eastern VA USA, just south of Yorktown.

 

No's 4 and 5 in that series are incredible....

Tim

 

I prefer:
http://edwardgruf.com/Digital_Photography/D70/misc/slides/DSC_1836.html

 

http://psych.wisc.edu/henriques/resources/Chicken of Depression.GIF

Anna

 

LOL ;-)

Good one.....

Guy

 

Nice picture, how far away did you take this pic
dale

 

Thanks, somewhere around 15ft.