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Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/1600 sec, f/2.5, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos
Waiting for Lunch
great egret blends in with the white water
Kamo River, Kyoto Japan
I took a quick bike ride up the Kamo river today to meet a friend for lunch, and noticed egrets and heron at each of the many mini waterfalls along the river, staring motionless and intently into the waterfall. I figured that they were waiting for the water to bring a fish to them, and sure enough, a flutter of a wing later, one suddenly had a flopping fish in its mouth...
Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 cropped — 1/1250 sec, f/2.5, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos
Easy Pickin's
The view from my bicycle with the 125mm lens didn't bring me close to the action, so I may try to visit again tomorrow with a 500mm lens.
Also along the river I found this gentleman perhaps trying too hard for a zen moment...
Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/1250 sec, f/2.5, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos
Zen Moment.... Sort Of
... and the area near the rear exit of a hospital filled with staff and patients eating lunch, about every third person smoking a cigarette...
Nikon D700 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/1250 sec, f/2.5, ISO 200 — map & image data — nearby photos
Lunch Break
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With the photo of the bird you’ve hit the same problem as with the white flowers from your last post: You tried to photograph a snowman in a snowstorm, as a German (yeah, I’m in Germany) saying goes. When I saw the white flowers I thought about how I would have tried to handle it: use the flash, dialed down to -2 in the hope of getting the background to at least look darker, more grey, pol filter too. With the bird I’d try the same.
Interesting to note that the guy trying too hard to be zen is a westerner and not a local. Sometimes a strong desire to blend with one’s surrounding has the opposite effect…
Funny how many doctors and other medical professionals smoke. Proof you don’t need to be smart to become a doctor. 🙂
I always love seeing the Kamogawa. Thanks!