Four yard birds captured with my new lens

["miles2go" <9gturns at xmission dot com>]

My first birding lens for my first Digital SLR arrived today. I 
immediately set aside an hour to hang around the yard and try to get 
used to it.

The link given below will take you to seven of the photos I took today. 
For now that's all you'll find there because I just set this account 
up.

I have a background in photography but left it several years ago. Now 
I'm learning this unbelievably advanced thing called digital 
photography. The camera body that I bought is worthy of a year long 
college course and I'm not joking. On top of that, today was my first 
day with the wonderful Sigma 100-300mm f4 HSM. It's a handful and 
handheld is the only way I've shot with it so far. Lastly, I just 
picked up Photoshop Elements 3.0 which I'm pretending to use. : ) Bear 
with me please. My photos will improve a lot as soon as I figure half 
of this stuff out! : )

So on to the images which include a male California Quail, Western 
Scrub Jay, two Cedar Waxwings and a 100% crop of a Robin. All 
photographs were taken in my yard today.

http://www.pbase.com/canyonlands/aroundtheyard

Thanks to those of you who responded to my introduction. Since Hill AFB 
isn't being closed I'll be around for a long time whether you want me 
to be or not. : )

Cheers,

Ron
South Ogden 

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