Since it was unseasonably cool today (70°), I took my bairdii outside to take some pics by natural light with fill flash.



Here's my boy. An old male, he really shows how dark some older bairdi can get. This was natural light only.







Here's his woman. She is several years younger and paler, particularly on the head region. She was also a lot less cooperative about the whole photo shoot issue.

I had to use the tissue paper flash diffuser with her since she was pretty flighty.









Both shots with:

- Konica Minolta 7D DSLR

- KM 28-75 f/2.8 D lens

- KM 3600 HS-D flash with tissue paper diffuser

- TTL fill flash

- shot in an inverted garbage can lid with some oak catkins and leaves from the backyard. Actually a fairly good representation of their real habitat. Just need to add some Ashe Juniper branches and bark.
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Chris Harrison

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• That's four posts in a row without any bairdi pics....better fix that! - chrish, Mon May 2 19:26:58 2005
• RE: That's four posts in a row without any bairdi pics....better fix that! - jtclark, Mon May 2 19:41:23 2005
• Here's the darkest bairdi I ever saw..... - chrish, Mon May 2 22:05:31 2005
• RE: Here's the darkest bairdi I ever saw..... - Shaky, Tue May 3 13:25:08 2005
• RE: Here's the darkest bairdi I ever saw..... - hermanbronsgeest, Tue May 3 15:57:58 2005
• RE: Here's the darkest bairdi I ever saw..... - chrish, Tue May 3 21:55:07 2005
• RE: Here's the darkest bairdi I ever saw..... - hermanbronsgeest, Wed May 4 10:05:57 2005
• RE: Here's the darkest bairdi I ever saw..... - chrish, Wed May 4 19:38:18 2005
• RE: biggest bairdi - hermanbronsgeest, Fri May 6 04:04:54 2005
• Herman - draybar, Fri May 6 17:38:18 2005
• RE: Oh, allrighty then... - hermanbronsgeest, Sat May 7 15:13:41 2005
• RE: Here's the darkest bairdi I ever saw..... - dan felice, Tue May 10 16:36:03 2005
• WOW - draybar, Tue May 3 21:19:44 2005
• RE: WOW - chrish, Tue May 3 21:57:59 2005