Stunning opportunity.
Chris
>
>OK, sorry, bad pun.
>
>I took this photo Wednesday morning on the way to work. I had just
>left home and the sun had just broke above the horizon. The high thin
>clouds neutralized the brightness quite a bit. So, it was just a
>matter of finding a subject to throw in front of it.
>
>Not five minutes before, I placed the 300/4.5 in the camera bag, so I
>quickly tossed it on the Panasonic DMC-L1, dialed in my Custom #1
>setting and fired off a couple shots. I had pulled off onto a nasty
>looking "Grade B" road and went past the "Rock Ends" sign (Joel knows
>what I'm talking about). Down the hill was this old windmill standing
>there. As the terrain was a bit hilly, I couldn't get the whole thing
>where I wanted, but instead I got some really cool compositions. There
>are other shots with the alignment perfect and so forth, but they just
>didn't have the organic look that this one has. Besides, this is the
>one which the bird did the best posing.
>
>This posted shot is the in-camera JPEG (The DMC-L1 is configured for
>RAW+JPEG) with a slight crop. No further adjustments.
>
>http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=4151
>
>I almost had to use 4WD to get out of there.
>
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