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Posted: **Thu Apr 28, 2005 7:06 pm**

Link to larger (and better) version http://www.pixspot.com/displayimage.php?pid=3485&fullsize=1

Link to larger version http://www.pixspot.com/displayimage.php?pid=3490&fullsize=1

Comments welcome and appreciated as always.

Posted: **Thu Apr 28, 2005 7:17 pm**

Striking Steve, beautiful colours on the neck

Posted: **Thu Apr 28, 2005 7:24 pm**

Well done Steve - they are not ducks and they are gorgeous colours

Posted: **Thu Apr 28, 2005 7:27 pm**

Hehe, sure makes a change from seeing ducks.

Great colours, really nice bird that

Posted: **Thu Apr 28, 2005 8:01 pm**

Stunning colours/colors Steve. BTW: what lens and other information, please.

Posted: **Thu Apr 28, 2005 8:16 pm**

Great colors............ are they as good to eat as ducks.......great shots....

bp

Posted: **Thu Apr 28, 2005 8:17 pm**

Big Pix, can you please remove that Big Boat from your signature.
Thank you.

Edit: Thanks

Posted: **Thu Apr 28, 2005 8:30 pm**

you mean the blue one?........... the big one was placed by the server not my pix and it is gone.....

Posted: **Thu Apr 28, 2005 8:42 pm**

fozzie wrote:Stunning colours/colors Steve. BTW: what lens and other information, please.

Thanks, Fozzie.
I shot these at the L.A. County Arboretum. They have about a dozen peacocks running around the place. Most of them are only a few feet inside the front gate! I had been there the week before and had focus problems ruin most of my peacock pictures, so I kind of went overboard to make sure that didn't happen to me again.

The first pic was taken with the 50mm f1.4 and SB800 fill, 1/250 @f13 ISO 500.

By the second pic I was using the Kit lens at 70mm still at ISO 500 and no flash. 1/250 @ f/13.

Posted: **Thu Apr 28, 2005 10:58 pm**

Peacocks are a delicasy, according to my dog.

Posted: **Thu Apr 28, 2005 11:13 pm**

Hi Steven,

Nice pics. Not easy to get all the features in sharp focus.

regards,

Arthur

Posted: **Thu Apr 28, 2005 11:14 pm**

Nice Birdies Steve, haven't seen any of them in a long time and they are very colourfull, nice pics.

Posted: **Fri Apr 29, 2005 1:30 am**

What a showoff, someone brings out a camera and tail pops up immediately! :lol:

*reference to the bird*

Great capture

Posted: **Fri Apr 29, 2005 12:34 pm**

1st guy looks like one at the kids schoolh he is called Andrew. Susan his partner and 5 chicks dissappeared during the last school holidays.

Great shots

Posted: **Sat Apr 30, 2005 4:55 pm**

The colours are stunning, prefer the framing of the first...

Posted: **Sat Apr 30, 2005 6:03 pm**

wow. . . GREAT shots. They're absolutely striking to the eye. . . . saturation is perfect

Posted: **Sat Apr 30, 2005 8:01 pm**

Beautiful colours. I like the first one best. Nice one Steve.

Posted: **Sat Apr 30, 2005 10:43 pm**

Very nice, Steve. I don't believe I've ever had the opportunity to shoot one that was fanned out like that. Very cool.

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