When I got up this morning, the deer were laying down in the field behind the house. There are three that pal around together. I think it's a female and her two offspring from last spring. They seem to like a corner where the overgrowth juts out into the grassy area. As the morning went on, they got up and started wandering around to rustle up some breakfast.
It gave me a chance to use my new camera. Even though I've read the manual a couple of times I have everything on automatic. In these, shot through a pretty spotted window, I only had to adjust the focus. The auto feature brought the trees and shrubs in the foreground into focus. There's probably a way to adjust the aperture to correct this and make everything in focus; I'll have to read that section again because it's different from the manual Nikon EM I'm used to using. Although I'm not sure I can even do it with the 18-200 zoom lens.
You can see the snow on the ground. We had a freak "wintry mix" storm yesterday afternoon. It started with an absolute downpour of rain. That changed to sleet, and the transition was obvious as the pellets started to make the "tink tink" sound against the windows. That gave way to heavy snow. All in the span of about 30 minutes. The ground is frozen and it's in the 20's so the snow stuck.
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Thursday, January 31, 2008
Doh A Deer
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Beautiful! What a great way to wake up. What kind of camera do you have?
cowbell--I bought a Nikon D80 body with a Nikkor 18-200mm zoom lens with vibration reduction as my Christmas present to myself.
The lens was almost as expensive as the camera. When I considered that I have 5 lenses for the EM I used to use, this will replace them all for less money overall and I won't have to change lenses all the time to get the "perfect" shot.
I can use the old lenses on the new camera (haven't tried yet) but with compromised camera functionality since they are old without the new bells and whistles like auto focus etc. The image size is different between film and digital, too. Think of watching a regular DVD on a widescreen TV. They work but one doesn't fit exactly over top of the other.
I made the mistake of ordering a memory card reader to hook up to the Mac. The D80 already came with a USB cable and port on the camera so I don't even need to pop the memory out. Just attach the USB cable, drag and drop onto my desktop, then open in Photoshop to resize, crop, and adjust.
I like the pics! Really nice! I'll have to think about getting me one of them contraptions to take better photos! Brrrrr! Pics gave me a chill though!
You can ask one of my co-workers about deer. They regularly utilize her garden for a snack tray. They are pretty though.
It reminds me of the deer we used to get out in our back field when I was a kid up in Vermont.
We get foxes, raccoons and 'possums in the city, but no deer so far, though there was a deer in Dorchester not too long ago.
Maybe nature is mounting a counterstrike against the hairless monkeys.
EG--Our house was built on farmland back in the early 50's. There was a farm house that used to be directly behind where these deer are pictured. The cement foundation is still out there somewhere and it was one of our exploring expeditions as kids.
Neighborhood lore told of the night the farm burned down and everyone used garden hoses to spray their roofs to protect the new houses; and how one day the neighbors woke up and there was a errant cow looking in their bedroom window.
When I was little, the back field was just grass (we had a big grass fire there once) and we were lucky if we saw a chipmunk. We NEVER saw deer around here...it was a treat to spot one on drives through the country in far off fields. So far that you'd get out the binoculars to verify they were indeed deer. Now they come right up to the house, and the what used to be a grazing pasture in 1950 is now the dense overgrowth you see here.
I guess this dramatic change is why I'm still so amazed by the deer. Probably boring to my readers, but I like them.
It's a bit like my reaction to palm trees when I was in southern CA. No matter how long I lived there, I always loved every palm tree I ever saw.
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