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A new dawn, a new day. Wildlife photography not being my day job (sigh), means if i want to get some shooting time, I have to squeeze it in before and after work. Luckily near my work, there is a lake which i frequent. This particular morning, the sun was just peeping over the trees in the background and making some fantastic light shafts, backlighting a grey heron magnificently! It was a magical morning! :) 5D mkIII,Ardea cinerea,Fall,Geotagged,Grey Heron,Hebbal lake,India,adhocphotographer,bangalore,india,john rowell Click/tap to enlarge

A new dawn, a new day.

Wildlife photography not being my day job (sigh), means if i want to get some shooting time, I have to squeeze it in before and after work. Luckily near my work, there is a lake which i frequent. This particular morning, the sun was just peeping over the trees in the background and making some fantastic light shafts, backlighting a grey heron magnificently! It was a magical morning! :)

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    Ferdy Christant
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    Beautiful! I was wondering if you ever considered macro photography? Posted 10 years ago
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      Thanks! :)
      I have, and I have played around with it... but i do not actually have a macro lens. I tend to invert my 50mm from time to time, but it takes a lot more work and effort!       Posted 10 years ago, modified 10 years ago
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      Just for you I went out today and took this...
      An ant eating something else... what i have no idea! :P I was motivated to go do some macro this afternoon, so went out hunting bugs and found this lone ant rummaging around a flower bed... using my iphone as a make-shift external light source i chased it around trying to get it in focus... <br /> <br /> Now i would like to add at this point that i use a reversed late 70's M42 mount 50mm f/1.8 Pentacon as a macro set-up. It does not have auto-focus to start with, but once you reverse it, focusing is achieved via moving closer and further away from the subject. So when this little chap was running around, i looked like a right fool rocking back and forth (to get focus) in the middle of a flower bed waving my iphone around with the tourch function on... oh well... i like the result! :)<br /> <br /> Again... to me it is just an ant, i have no idea of species...<br /> <br /> http://www.john-rowell.com/blog/2015/6/11/macro-on-the-cheap-<br /> <br /> 365,Bangalore,Geotagged,India,Paratrechina longicornis,Reversed lens,Winter,adhocphotographer,another day another photo,john Rowell,macro


      Macro is fun, but i am not much of an insect person, so i feel i am missing a lot of the point! :P       Posted 10 years ago

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The Grey heron

The grey heron is a wading bird of the heron family Ardeidae, native throughout temperate Europe and Asia and also parts of Africa. It is resident in the milder south and west, but many birds retreat in winter from the ice in colder regions. It has become common in summer even inside the Arctic circle along the Norwegian coast.

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Similar species: Pelicans, Herons, Ibises
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Uploaded Jan 28, 2015. Captured Nov 19, 2013 06:47 in 118, Outer Ring Road, Subramanya Nagar, Guddadahalli, Hebbal Kempapura, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560024, India.
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  • Canon EOS 5D Mark III
  • f/4.0
  • 1/1600s
  • ISO100
  • 200mm
Captured in the fall. More fall photos.