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Took this back on March 25th. My first & only shot of 2011 thus far. Beggars can't be choosers. Well I'm back. Sort of.

Explore number 343 on Wednesday, June 8, 2011

“Like the shooting star, the mirage, the flame, the magical illusion, the drop of dew, the bubble on water. Like the dream, the lightning or the cloud, thus consider all things.”

The Buddha

I lay in a meadow
until the unwrinkled serenity
entered into my bones,
and made me into one
with the browsing kine,
the still greenery,
the drifting clouds,
and the swooping birds.
- Alice James

I have not taken a photo since the previous upload on the 13/11 due to work/life/snow & ice here (my rear wheel drive car is useless!). Luckily there is a small gap between the neighbours houses to the rear of mine. At this time of year the sun sets there behind the little bit of Sugarloaf Mountain I can see between them. There was somebody on top of it there taking in the sunset too, that's the little point you can see on the peak there (well if you can view this larger you;ll see him/her but I think it was a him). It's about 5km away as that crow there flies... :)

With my 100-400mm Zoom lens & X2 converter attached I was able to balance the lens on the fence & see this view in the frame. Shot on manual focus at the highest shutter speed my 7D will allow (1/8000th sec). So the sun setting there just to the right & below the bird is only burnt out a little in this jpeg, which is unprocessed as usual, because I have not sussed out how to process RAW on this iMac yet. Anyone who knows me knows that technical acumen is beyond me more or less anyway...

Apologies if this tree & view & bird look familiar, as I have shot from this viewpoint before, but anyway, I had to shoot something, stir crazy this afternoon, & this was all i could briefly see that was worth shooting, but that's just my opinion... :)

Camera Canon EOS 7D
Exposure 1/8000 sec
Exposure Bias -3 EV
Aperture f/14.0
Focal Length 470 mm
ISO Speed100
Manual Focus
No Post Processing

This Is the day
Your life will surely change
This is the day
When things fall into place

Matt Johnson aka The The