Kyoto Egret (京都の鷺)

Cattle Egret #2 (鷺#2)

Cattle Egret (鷺)

Bad hair day (寝ぐせ)

Dancing Egret (踊ってる小鷺)

Egret's dinner (小鷺の晩ご飯)

Egret with Bigma (鷺と新しいレンズ)

I recently bought myself a second hand lens known as the "Bigma". It's a Sigma 50-500mm, and is a big bugger! It weighs about 2kg and coupled with my new D300 is about 3 kg to lug about! Anyway, I have heard that it takes quite some getting used to, especially if used hand-held, so I took it out on the weekend for an hour or two in Kyoto. My arm was aching after, but I was very happy with the results. Here is a one of the shots I got of it.

最近シグマの50−500mmを中古で買った。2kgでとっても重くて、撮り終わったら腕が痛くなってた！（笑！）この鷺の写真は結構満足した一枚になる。今からこのレンズを使うのはとても楽しみだな！

Kingfisher (カワセミ)

I went back down to the same spot I took those egret photos the next day, and got a few good shots of some black kites, but I quite like this shot. I spotted this little kingfisher sitting in the shade on a rock. The shot was a bit dark, and my zoom not big enough, but I quite like this. You can see the kite shots in the following gallery:
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大鷺を撮った次の日、同じ場所に行ってみた。こんどは鳶とかの写真も撮れたけどこのカワセミの写真が気に入った。陰に座ってたし、望遠は足りんかったし、あんまりはっきり見えないけどこの写真が好き。鳶とかの写真を見たいなら上のリンクをクリックして。

Great Egret #2: Kiss my... (大鷺 #2)

Another shot from the same session 2 days ago.

この間のやつ。

Great Egret #1 (大鷺： 命！！)

Well I got my new Nikkor 18-200mm lens last week and had been raring to get out and give it a spin. I went down to the river today and spend a couple of hours stalking this fella. After a while he got quite used to me and I was able to get pretty close. I wish the lens had a bit more reach on it, but the results were much better than my Tamron 28-300mm lens. Very clear shots.

先週、新しいレンズを買った。Nikkor 18-200mm。今まではTamron 28-300mmを使ってたから、そのレンズとの違いを見たかった。そのために川に行ってこの大鷺を二時間位追いかけた。結構近くまで行って撮れたのでとても嬉しかった。かなり奇麗な写真が撮れた。この大鷺は命のポーズしてる！