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Ikinaa

7th of February 2005 (Mon), 00:23

I took this picture of a duck (these are very common here) swimming on the Mosel-River.
It is only slightly cropped so that the duck isn't a too centered...

20D with 75-300 USM at 300mm
f/11 (because that's where this lens is sharpest...)
1/320 sec
ISO400

marie

7th of February 2005 (Mon), 09:51

that is just beautiful Ikinaa
is it a mallard?

the colours on the beak and all over are gorgeous
also the water looks great
I never saw a mallard with a yellow beak {I don't think so anyway}http://www.photography-on-the.net/forum/images/smilies/icon_confused.gif
why I wondered
lovely shot

dewmuw

7th of February 2005 (Mon), 10:00

Love the vividness (is that a real word) of the bill. Don't all mallards have yellow beaks?

marie

7th of February 2005 (Mon), 14:32

Love the vividness (is that a real word) of the bill. Don't all mallards have yellow beaks?

Damian you are right
I just opened my gallery and completely by coincidence
up came a shot of a duck I took .
I wasn't even looking for one as I was doing something somewhere else on that site
it's a picture of a mallard and it's beak is yellowhttp://www.photography-on-the.net/forum/images/smilies/icon_lol.gif http://www.photography-on-the.net/forum/images/smilies/icon_lol.gif
I completely forgot

I had it in my mind that they had brown beaks for some reasonhttp://www.photography-on-the.net/forum/images/smilies/icon_confused.gif

even though I saw this photo a few hours ago when I was moving it on the site before I saw Ikinaa's shot.... it didn't strike me about the beak

must be because Ikinaa's made a better impact

I know I saw ducks on the canal a few days ago and they did not have yellow beaks.

must be younger
http://www.photography-on-the.net/forum/images/smilies/icon_confused.gif or the black sheep's of the family

http://www.photography-on-the.net/forum/images/smilies/icon_lol.gif

http://www.pbase.com/image/22796653/original

Ikinaa

8th of February 2005 (Tue), 01:08

Marie and Damian : Thanks for the kind replies.

I must say that I'm very bad at knowing the names of the animals, let alone ducks...
This weekend I saw many ducks, the colorful ones, the black with white head, the ones with brown heads and yellow eyes, etc... :lol:

Ah ... when will they produce cameras with automatic species-recognition, so the filenames won't be img_xxxx.jpg but mallard_male.jpg or something ;)

Nascar Nut

8th of February 2005 (Tue), 05:06

Scottes

8th of February 2005 (Tue), 06:42

Nice Duck. I love ducks. :-)

Ah ... when will they produce cameras with automatic species-recognition...

Closest I've found: http://pick4.pick.uga.edu/mp/20q?guide=Birds
(Actually I think LazyPhotographer told me about this.)
But you check off certain characteristic (like Yellow Bill) and it narrows the field for you. Way cool.