After seven or so attempts.....

MLBob Furia

MLBob Furia

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PLUS an e-mail from Eric (Thanks, Eric) I think I may have this multiple picture thing down. Lets see.

Had the mother of all bluebird days yesterday (Wed.) Starry skies turning to cloudless sunny skies - and not a hint of wind. Decided I might as well "shoot" the decoys for that coffee table book I'll do someday when I retire. Here are some of the better shots:

Pair of teal floating next to a fat, rester mallard:

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Another Mallard drake showing his spec. I like the way the spatter vermiculation projects at a distance on these drakes.
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This is an older-vintage drake in a "drinker" pose. Has held up very well over the years (bill was a repaint at the start of last season):

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AWWWRIIIGHT, I think I've got it. A few final pics.

Black duck decoy in the glare of the sunrise:

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When the water in a slough off the Ohio River looks this calm & blue, you know it was a bluebird day (Mall hen caller):

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"Yea, yea, shoot something for me to go get, or let's pick up and go home...."
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Bob, my coat is still drying off in the kitchen. We had NE wind and rain here this morning and to my dismay very few ducks ridding it down from up North. Two pair of hooded mergs and one pair of redbrested were all we saw in our decoys, but they did not see a reflection like yours.
What do you use for a camera and lense? Those shots were cool with the reflected light. Also were the birds all wood bodies or were some cork?
Thanks, hope you get some cold wind to push you some ducks.
 

Bob B-
Digital SLR - Pentax K100D camera body (The one with the shake reduction built in) and a Tamron AF 28 - 300 mm zoom lens.

All those decoys are cork bodies. That's all I make.


Merg-
The weather will get here eventually ;-)
Until then, we'll just keep showing up anyway.
It's always a treat to see your posts and pics both here and on MLB.
 
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Very nice camera work and decoys. I was mistaken in thinking that you used some wood bodies. All very nice. They have a live look that most decoys don't have.
I think there is another Bob on the MLB with the same Bob B post name. I am up in CT and have been on this site here since the early days. Never posted on the MLB but it is a great site. Have seen your photos on the carvers page as well and enjoyed the paint help you have put up there.
Again thanks for the great pictures, and good luck with todays hunt.
 
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