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Barnett's Bird Images

Since I got interested in birds, and since I have a camera, I've tried, like many other birders, to take pictures of some of the birds I've seen. My wife laughs at me when I point to a miniscule smudge lost amidst the foliage in some of these photographs and exclaim, "Look, right there, it's a Chestnut-sided Warbler!" A lot of the pictures are like that, due to the facts that 1) I haven't spent an arm and a leg on photographic equipment, and 2) I haven't made photography the focus of my birding activities. Some of the pictures, however, are pretty good, if I say so myself. But most of them are more along the lines of the "what's that smudge?" variety. I've blown up the smudges when I scanned them in, so you can at least tell they're birds in these images! I've also been playing around with digiscoping. You can see some of the results below.

Digiscoped images

 I had read about digiscoping and was frankly skeptical about producing a worthwhile image by holding a digital camera up in front of the eyepiece of a spotting scope. But, having both pieces of equipment in the same place at the same time led me to give it a try. Here are some of my results, with which I was pleasantly surprised. I have a 60 mm Nikon Fieldscope III (non-ED) and had borrowed an Olympus D-340L 1.3 megapixel camera. This is not the ideal camera for this application, primarily because the lens is recessed in a curved part of the case, making it difficult to keep the right camera-to-scope alignment when you're shooting.
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Lewis Barnett/ Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science/ University of Richmond, VA 23173/ lbarnett@richmond.edu

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