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22-06-2011, 12:47 AM
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| |  Swan Leg
Well took the plunge and posted my first shot that I am reasonably happy with. This fellow has been hanging around a weir near Meadowhall in Sheffield. Its been here for a week and I am hoping that he is looking after a nest site.
Took this using my Panasonic G2 with 45-200mm it has been cropped ever so slightly. Enough blurb from me, I'll let you tear it to shreds now! 
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22-06-2011, 12:49 PM
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Keep at it and you will get more and more shots you are happy with!!
Anyone know why they put their leg into such a strange position? Let it dry to remove parasites? Or to service it in some way? |
22-06-2011, 05:06 PM
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Nice one Steve, looks nice mate.
Whites are a difficult colour to expose for so you kept it all together from what I can see
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23-06-2011, 06:22 PM
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| | | Re: Swan Leg
Cheers for the comments Guys,
Dan praise indeed coming from yourself. I had to bin several shots because I'd managed to bleach the highlights out, so was glad to have managed this one.
I was hoping someone might be able to tell me tht to. At first I thought the poor thing had been injured. But I saw him/her standing on it. Maybe it's literally enjoying the fresh air on an over worked foot.
Am working through the rest of the shots from that session I may well end up posting some more.
All the best
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24-06-2011, 09:42 AM
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| | | Re: Swan Leg
Same as you, I though swans like that were injured but i've seen it a few times and like you said, they use the leg perfectly fine. I can only think it may be a way or drying out things like water fleas or other parasites and fungi/algae growth in the sun and thus killing the pests. | | |
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