Portrait with 12mm

Here's one way of taking it!

That 12mm lens must be practically touching the wings! I don't think it is cropped too much.
Damn... I have a hard enough time getting close enough to shoot a bird with a 180mm! Perhaps he camouflaged the camera and set out some food to lure them the bird in front of the lens, then used some kind of remote cable to trip the shutter (...yet another item added to my list of shots to try some day....).

trevalo wrote:

That 12mm lens must be practically touching the wings! I don't think it is cropped too much.
Damn... I have a hard enough time getting close enough to shoot a bird with a 180mm! Perhaps he camouflaged the camera and set out some food to lure them the bird in front of the lens, then used some kind of remote cable to trip the shutter (...yet another item added to my list of shots to try some day....).

Now that u mentioned it, i think he did bait the birds with food. Check out the ball-like looking "stone" at the bottom of the photo.

I saw that.... but assumed it was bird-poo....
Upon closer inspection though, perhaps it could very well have been bait....

trevalo wrote:

I saw that.... but assumed it was bird-poo....
Upon closer inspection though, perhaps it could very well have been bait....

Let's try if we make it out to the suburbs this weekend!