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The Pancake Chronicles
Monday, January 24, 2011
The Pancake Chronicles
My name is Colleen.
I love taking my time and finding beauty and humour in things before they happen - as in seeds and salamanders.
"The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing — to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from — my country, the place where I ought to have been born. Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back."
C.S. Lewis - Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold
"Look, it's not in my nature to be mysterious. But I can't talk about it and I can't talk about why."
Rusty Ryan - Ocean's Twelve
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11 Comments:
gasp! another amazing chickadee photo! last years little winter one may need a friend ;) happy weekend!
Wow! An amazing picture indeed! So cute!
Beautiful! Look at the wings, wow! Great shot Colleen!
Kel
Hey Colleen, Clay here. This AMAZING shot of this chickadee reminds me of the hovering chickadee I captured on my trail cam. You can see it on Adrienne's blog.
Amazing photo Colleen!
Wow Colleen, this picture is absolutely amazing!!
Can I ask you what kind of camera you are using now? Back when I lived there I remember you had that old digital camera and were wanting to upgrade..curious what you ended up getting. You have always taken beautiful pics, old or new camera! :)
Thanks, my friends!
Hi Moni! My camera is a Nikon D80 now. I've had it for 2½ years. I used a 50mm lens for this. I'm still getting used to this lens but it lets in way more light than an average lens which means my shutter can close quickly on fast objects and still get in enough light to keep it from being a blur. I stood behind the kitchen sink and took these through the window - held down the shutter and fired off maybe a hundred photos hoping for a good one. Miss you. x.
WOW!!!!!!!!
Great shot, Colleen!
Glad you made it home, safe and sound, even if it means you are returning to much colder pastures.
xoxo
Colleen...thanks for the reply, sorry I just saw this now 2 weeks later. You rock!! And I miss you too.
This is fantastic!! :) Ack I have a D60 and my 50mm doesn't auto focus, does yours on the D80? I'm saving (ha ha) for a D90 which I read will auto focus. My 50 is my most favorite-est lens for sure. :)
Thank you! It does auto-focus but I manually focused and kept my camera in the same place and just kept on clicking. The birds flew back and forth in the same line so I didn't have to keep refocusing. I took hundreds with only three or four that turned out. I would love a D90 for the video option! A friend of mine is wizard with it. Of my two lenses the 50mm is my fave. There's a $2,000 wide-angle lens I have my eye on but it's, uh $2,000.
any questions?
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