In early Aug. 2009..while waiting for the  chicks to hatch I went looking for the My work is tocapture their expression: movement.  The bird  or  (bird in flight) also the landing and take off. Its really difficult for this two birds, especially for a novice like me but not impossible. What a trip on my work – you really need to observe the birds in order to get what you want, for ’swallow’ its out in the open and it took me four ‘outings’ to finally come to this: a young thin tree , with a wide green BG.  Where the swallow will land perch on the branch -

everytime same tree…same branch! under the sun no shade! Worse the thin tree with the thin branch and moving with the wind…wow! how the AF of my 1d3? difficult but with another two ’outings’ of practise shooting I got it! but hey.. not sharp! not sharp…whats happening!…aiya and BG not green enough - caught some of  the sky high light …lolz!

Thank you for reading ~ Novice at Work