Kookaburra’s just eat and eat and eat…

2009.07.02

Canon 5D f8 1/100s ISO 400 EF28-300L  f4 IS

Its well known that the Kookaburra is the iconic bird of Australia, its less well known that it is not native to Western Australia. The fact is that Kookaburra’s only arrived in W.A. in the early 1900’s about the time of the Kalgoorlie gold rush. Since that time they have multiplied by the thousands may be even millions and in the process they have eaten their way through countless frogs, skinks, gekkos, snakes and small marsupial mammals. The kookaburra also seems to some extent to follow human settlement so along with the cats that often come with the humans the small wild life and birds really don’t stand to much chance of survival. The Kookaburra like the cat and the fox should be declared as feral and eliminated where possible and as soon as possible… This kookaburra pictured above has a skink in its beak just freshly killed.

Seagulls don’t tweet…

2009.06.30

Canon S70 f8 1/250s ISO200

Seagull stepping out…

2009.06.29

Canon S70 f8 1/250s ISO200

Blue texture…

2009.06.28

Canon G9 f3.2  1/80s ISO400

Blue light…

2009.06.27

Canon G9 f3.2 1/125s ISO400

Blue angles…

2009.06.26

Canon G9 f3.2 1/80s ISO400

Blue on blue…

2009.06.25

Canon G9 f3.2 1/30s ISO400

Blue art deco moulding…

2009.06.24

Canon G9 f3.2 1/50s ISO 400

Another gray day…

2009.06.23

Canon 5D f5.6 1/20s ISO400 Tamron 200mm

I found a an EOS to Tamron lens adapter to replace the original adaptall II for the Canon FD that I have had for years. I liked this lens when used with film as it is almost a 200mm macro lens, having never owned Canon’s offering for reasons of cost. The Tamron was as I recall less than half the cost of the Canon and half a stop faster. Its my opinion that Tamron have in many instances made macro lenses that are at the very least the equal of the major manufacturers lenses at far less cost, it is also interesting that when they are offered for sale on Ebay they often achieve higher prices than the equivalent Canon. The two shots above appear not to be as crisp as I remember when the lense was used with film, but the colour rendering is very attractive and quite different to the results with film and more like some of the results from older European lenses.

Rain in the forest

2009.06.22

Canon 5D f8 1/25s ISO 400 EF24-105 f4L IS