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Grey ShrikeThrush - 1/90th second Vivitar 500mm lens - deep shade - dense foliage 1600 ISO
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Emulating the Great Charles I tried my hand at some more flowers - with a 500mm Vivitar
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Caught the Superb Blue Fairy Wren in the act of grooming - looking this good is not so easy - a guy has to work at it :-))
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Lightened the head slightly to try to bring out the eye - having trouble nailing the focus - out of 60 shots I missed at least 50 -
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Lady Fairy Wren looking at me from behind a log on the woodpile - need light in the eyes!!!
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Yellow Throated Honeyeater
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Female Flame Robin - the characteristic way they hold their wings pointing down helps ID them from the Scarlet - Viv 500mm mirror
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Closeups with a 500mm mirror lens can be tricky -the depth of field is almost zero
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Black Faced Cuckoo Shrike - spotted him some 500metres or so down the road from our place -couldn't get close enough for a good shot
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Flame Robin - he can be identified against the Scarlet Robin by his more erect posture plus the red goes right up the neck
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Comparison shot of the old conventional 500mm lens using glass elements and the "new" Vivitar mirror lens - both 500mm both f8
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Another with the "new" Vivitar 500mm mirror lens Charlie got for me and foolishly passed on -reduced
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Vivitar 500mm mirror lens - Female Superb Blue Fairy Wren - reduced!!!
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Taken with the Vivitar 500mm mirror lens Charlie got for me
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Double Daffodil
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Superb Blue Fairy Wren
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Superb Blue Fairy Wren
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Female Superb Blue Fairy Wren
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Female Superb Blue Fairy Wren
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Flame Robin - 500mm prime
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Coming back from a walk I looked out over the valley and saw the light hitting the tops of the trees with the dark hills behind
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A Rosie portrait this morning with the Vivitar 500mm - cropped and straightened- It had a fashionable inclined head but it annoyed me :-)
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Another attempt at the Superb Blue Fairy Wren with the Vivitar 500mm lens
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According to the scale on the lens I was about 50 feet or 15 metres from this mouse size little Tasmanian Thornbill
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Chasing the Grey Fantail is like chasing --??? - it "teased" me the whole time I was cutting down a dead tree for firewood
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I love this modern technology - I saw this bird fly by and land on a tree about 50 mertres away - 6 pm and getting dark here
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Superb Blue Fairy wrens -getting close and cuddly - nests and eggs soon
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The superb blue fairy wrens were a long way off but I liked the composition so decided to crop and post them anyway
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At last the Flame Robin perched on the structure I put up near our front window only metres away -
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The Flame Robin singing this morning - the reflection in the eye is the morning sun bouncing back from our window - makes a nice fill light
