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I've Just Popped Out To See My Friends!


I've Just Popped Out To See My Friends!
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Copyright: Pam Russell (coasties) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3816 W: 505 N: 8098] (27718)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2005-10-04
Categories: Birds
Camera: Canon EOS 10D, Canon EF 100-400mm L IS USM, Digital RAW 100, Hoya UV 77mm
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2005-10-11 3:49
Viewed: 1459
Favorites: 1 [view]
Points: 50
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Black Swan (Cygnus atratus)

Taxonomy
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Anseriformes
Family: Anatidae
Genera: Cygnus
Species: atratus

Description: Introduced bird, Male, 120cm, 6kg; female, 5kg. Black with white tipped crimson bill. Juvenile brown with dull red bill.

Where to find: Widespread and abundant with greatest numbers on large coastal or inland lakes, Rotorua Lakes, Lake Wairarapa, Lake Ellesmere

Information: The black swan was introduced as a game bird from Australia to New Zealand in the 1860s but also probably reached here naturally at about the same time as the population grew and spread very rapidly. They are probably still arriving here from Australia naturally so should be classified as a native bird. By the 1960s, there were well over 100,000 birds in New Zealand with 70,000 on Lake Ellesmere alone. However, the 1968 Wahine storm destroyed most of the feeding habitat at Lake Ellesmere and the population there crashed to 10,000 birds, never to quite recover. The Fish and Game council offers another view of its sudden decline, saying that from the 1970s on farm silt run-off killed the water plants that swan depend on. Starving birds began to eat grass, leading to culls in which many thousands of the birds were killed until their numbers adapted to their impoverished circumstances.

The above obtained from http://www.nzbirds.com/birds/blackswan.html

Gert did one similar here

IMAGE INFORMATION

Camera: Canon 10D
Time of day: 11:24 a.m.
Date: 4th October 2005
Weather conditions: Clear
Lens: Canon 100-400mm L IS
Filter: Hoya 77mm UV
Shutter Speed: 1/160
F-Stop: F/19
Focal Length: 350mm
ISO: 100
Original file type: Digital Raw
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Looks more like a horse popping its head out of a stable to me. The beady eyes look a bit threatening too. Ha! Just kidding. Wow!! Thats a lot of details on that beak. I wonder if the wear/scratches on the beak are a result of age? Nice saturated colors. TFS !!

Fantastic idea, Pam! Excellent portrait with great colours and excellent sharpness. Great outstanding frame. Thanks.

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  • TAZ Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2241 W: 47 N: 3167] (10926)
  • [2005-10-11 4:05]

Wooooow ! This swan portrait is nicely presented and it gives a 3D effect ! The beak is out of my flat screen ;-) Colors and details are great. Congratulations Pam and TFS.

Hi Pam, it very funny and good picture.
The exposure are spot on. Very good details and nice colours.
It's similar to my swan and I think this also want some bread;))
Great work.

Clever 3D image! Picture quality is just as great! Paul :)

it's an eye popping pic indeed! excellent cropping & framing. vivid colors.

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  • Janice Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3315 W: 148 N: 6113] (18648)
  • [2005-10-11 4:49]

Hi Pam, am I pleased you didn't post this one last night!!
EXCELLENT shot, down to the grass and dirt on his beak and his beady eyes. TFS...!
Janice

Hi Pam, your photo makes me smile. Very clever idea. TFS!

Bonjour Pam, une photo très originale de ce cygne

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  • sAner Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1490 W: 72 N: 1427] (4744)
  • [2005-10-11 6:46]

Fantastic effect Pam. The out of frame idea is great. Details are great and exposure is spot on. Well done & TFS!

Regards,
Pieter

Hi Pam,
I love the portrait for its perfect color and detail. Your presentation is awsome. This one rocks!
Scott

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  • radz Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 603 W: 11 N: 616] (3404)
  • [2005-10-11 10:18]

Cute and funny pose,really nice,interesting frame work to look like 3d effect.

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  • red45 Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2705 W: 74 N: 8864] (30243)
  • [2005-10-11 10:39]

Alert! Swan out of frame! ;-)
Funny picture and very good postprocessing work Pam!

Superb shot Pam!
I like this kind of framing very much.
Photo has perfect details and lighting, and lovely colours.
I like it very much.
VERY WELL DONE & TFS

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  • fiyo Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 987 W: 5 N: 2762] (10618)
  • [2005-10-11 11:33]

Hello Pam,
Excellent shot and amazing frame.
Very good lighting, sharp and detailed image, very nice colours.
Well done, and TFS. : )

HELLO PAM!
Amazing portrait! I LOVE LOOKING AT "SWEET" FACES OF SWANS.
Amazing frame and superb composition.

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  • carper Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2009 W: 122 N: 2581] (8424)
  • [2005-10-11 14:14]

very nice one Pam,
creative a very nice one, technical super, good pov and great dof, grea details, good job,
gr. jaap

Wow!!! What a face, the frame is great. I like this very much. Exellent work.
Thank you for sharing it here.
BR Martina

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  • livios Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2156 W: 322 N: 4258] (16906)
  • [2005-10-11 17:16]

Pam, this is nice and rather funny.

I like post-process here.

Great pov, composition and sharpness. Lovely and vivid colors. As always, very informative note.

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  • hibou Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 216 W: 1 N: 329] (1617)
  • [2005-10-12 20:15]

This portrait is great and your outstanding frame is realy interesting. Well done

Donald L.

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  • zakiwi Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 154 W: 20 N: 274] (1309)
  • [2005-10-12 22:53]

Hey Pam,

I love the way that you've presented this photo. I've been learning that presentation and post processing is so vital to the impact your photos make. You've really done a great job here --- it looks so 3D.

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  • Fisher Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1540 W: 309 N: 2234] (8915)
  • [2005-10-13 15:43]

Hi Pam,

For a second, I thought you used an ext. tube like I did on the Goose portrait.
Beautiful capture and well done on the composition and details, Super work, I like it coming out of the frame. Cool.!!!

Mike

Fantastic details Pam and very creative framing on this one. Very nice work.

Hey, red-eye alert! :-)))
I have to give thumbs up for your imaginative framing, that gives the image humour and relief.

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  • RII Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 485 W: 0 N: 884] (2812)
  • [2005-11-29 1:32]

Hi Pam.
OHHHHH...Original portrait.
The details and colors is perfect,great composition, excellent shot.
Congratulations Pam.
Saludos....RICARDO

Clever view of what would otherwise be just another headshot of a bird!! Technically perfect.

Fantasic portrait Pam, very very nice. An exellent frame, never seen anything like it, but I LOVE it. POV, Colors, Detail and Sharpness is great. TFS Mattias

very nice photo. Colours and sharpen. Good idea frame

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