California - Northern

[PetRock]

tack-sharp of course depends on my manual focussing, and my eyesight keeps getting worse -- but i did a little test yesterday, both pictures taken with my Canon DSRL minutes apart, with the exact same fstop and shutter speed, top on with my standard Canon 50mm lens & the bottom with dad's 1960s-era pentax lens -- HUGE difference:


(sorry, not a chicken)

Beautiful pics! How interesting to see the difference that the lens makes! I had a Pentax camera in the mid 70's that I loved! It was stolen my first year in college.

 

[Chickengirl1304]

Ok, I changed #2 to this pic.

I like this better

 

[Hangtown Farms]

Sure wish someone would have told me that about 4 months ago. Talk about disappointed. Guess I will need to find some true Ameraucana chickens next spring.

I love the first one and that was one of the ones I was going to suggest because it would be great for Spring, which is apparently what everyone else was thinking too.


I sort of did the same thing you did with the EE's and wanting the blue eggs. When all was said and done though I liked the green eggs too. It just gives you an excuse to get more chickens.


Happy Birthday Deb!

I have some olive egger chicks that just hatched and some silver ameraucana roosters

Thank you so much Pam, that's very kind of you. And it was a pleasure meeting you and sending off my roo and egglets to such a good home!

Happy Birthday !

 

[Chickengirl1304]

So my orp hens are obviously molting but I can't tell if the rooster is. Can I tell by looking under his feathers? Will new ones be coming back in so I can tell?

 

[debs_flock]

Ok, I changed #2 to this pic.

Good choice, this photo is outstanding. I think you'll have a much better chance and the orientation is great for a calendar.

 

[debs_flock]

Thanks again for all the birthday wishes today. Just got home from going out to dinner. I hadn't been feeling well since Sunday, so had thought about postponing. Now I'm glad we went, it was a lovely evening.

 

[chiqita]

We got foxed again . He hit my silkie shed on the hill right at dusk. Pancake went for him when he tried by the chicks and I think he got her. We looked for her for about an hour. The dog went wild this time and chased him out of the coop I know pancake got away but I'm afraid she fell down the ravine. I'm hoping against hope she is hiding down there and she makes noise in the morning.

Her chicks are rejecting all the other mothers and huddled in a corner crying.... the roosters are cooung to them. If it was not so sad it would be precious.

 

[lawatt]

Interesting! Which is more true to color on the hydrangea? I like the bottom image best.

bottom one MUCH closer to real-life colors, and i like it far better too. nothing like old glass...

 

[lawatt]

Beautiful pics! How interesting to see the difference that the lens makes! I had a Pentax camera in the mid 70's that I loved! It was stolen my first year in college.

booo! both my parents had pentaxes in the 60s, and dad gave me one for my high school graduation -- but of course it uses a different lens mount than the older cams, so his lenses have just been gathering dust for about three decades, until a) they moved from CA to South Carolina and went through everything while packing etc., and b) i learned that they make these adaptor rings now for using old lenses. bought one for my Pentax 35mm camera, and one for the digital. couldn't be more pleased.

except the bobcat visited again today! of course all the chickens were safely in their pens, but my goodness, what a racket -- twice, once just as i arrived home around 5:30, and a second time when it walked back through the meadow around sundown. i got a good long look at it the second time -- a BIG cat, very tall & with a good fluff of a bob-tail. looking much too sure of itself -- i wish i'd had time to get the hose turned on before it loped off up the hill...

 

[lawatt]

We got foxed again . He hit my silkie shed on the hill right at dusk. Pancake went for him when he tried by the chicks and I think he got her. We looked for her for about an hour. The dog went wild this time and chased him out of the coop I know pancake got away but I'm afraid she fell down the ravine. I'm hoping against hope she is hiding down there and she makes noise in the morning.

Her chicks are rejecting all the other mothers and huddled in a corner crying.... the roosters are cooung to them. If it was not so sad it would be precious.

oh no -- hope that she returns soon! they do hide for a LONG time after a predator, i've learned... hoping she re-emerges in the morning.

it must be late summer -- all the critters are feisty, it seems.