Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Two South African flight-shots


Black-shouldered Kite, Wakkertroom wetland reserve, South Africa, July 2006.

Pink-backed Pelican, Mkhuze game reserve, South Africa, July 2006.

The latest (September 2006) issue of Bird Watching magazine (available at WHSMiths and other good newsagents) contains an article I wrote about digiscoping in South Africa. I was lucky enough to be invited out there in July this year by Swarovski Optik. These two shots were not in the article, nor in the posts of South African birds you will find below (click on July 2006 link). They do, however, show that flight photography is not completely beyond the realm of us conventional digscopers...
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Canon PowerShot A95, Kowa TSN-823 + 32xWLER

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