RetroCamera » sweden http://www.retrocamera.net Old retrocamera equipment in a digital photography world. Thu, 26 Apr 2012 12:41:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Whooper swans with Super-Takumar 135mm http://www.retrocamera.net/whooper-swans-with-super-takumar-135mm.html http://www.retrocamera.net/whooper-swans-with-super-takumar-135mm.html#comments Mon, 05 Apr 2010 07:56:57 +0000 Mattias http://www.retrocamera.net/?p=922 Yesterday I bicycled round lake Tysslingen and made this image of whooper swans with Super-Takumar 135mm/3.5 M42-lens on Canon EOS 350D. The swans here are an attraction for wildlifephotographers every year, and they were lined up at the fence with their big tele AF-lenses… all getting the same image I guess, of the same birds and with the same weird look on their faces when they looked upon my little Takumar ;)

Swans at lake Tysslingen

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Over the hill
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Winter dusk

Shot with Super-Multi-Coated Takumar 55mm/1.8 on Canon EOS 350D.

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Warm and cold, part1

I think this was shot with Yashica 35mm/2.8, however I’m not certain. I almost got stuck there, with a leg dissapeared completely in the snow.

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And you need to crawl to get good closups. It’s most often not fun looking at pictures taken with the ground as background.

If you click on the images, you go to the Flickr-page – just click the browsers backbutton to get back here.

Standing guard
Heather
Lingonberry and heather
Lingonberry
Lingonberry
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Geum rivale L / Humleblomster
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The images was created with Yashinon-DX 50mm/1.7 on Canon EOS 350D.

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Leberblümchen

Leberblümchen

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