| Spring Lamb |
| By Richard Peters - Submitted 15/05/2007 |
| Tags: animals lamb |
| Number of views: 160319 |
| I'm back from Mull everyone and WOW what a place! I thought I'd treat you all to one of my favourite photos from the week.
There are sheep and cattle all over the island and one evening we returned to the house to find three lambs going crazy and running around head butting each other and generally leaping about playing. We were laughing so much but I thought I'd grab my camera out the car just for fun. I was laughing so much at times I couldn't keep the little fella's in the viewfinder from shaking lol. I was using the D2x high speed crop mode to get the fps up to increase my chances and it paid off as this was the only shot out of LOADS that was sharp or had a good shape to the lamb.
However I caught this one mid leap - a perfect spring lamb! (also tried a portrait crop but seems to work better when he has space around him) |
| Camera Brand: Nikon |
| Camera Model: D2x |
| Focal Length: Nikon 200-400 at 310mm |
| Shutter speed, aperture: 1/750 second at f4 |
| Film: ISO 400 |
| Critiques for this image | User | Rating |
| Awesome and wonderful to see photos earning more than just a couple of critiques again. This is going to be POTW lets face it. Your timing is amazing and it almost looks as if time has been frozen! | Nick Lewis (Editor)
(16/05/2007) | 10 |
| WOW....amazing shot LOVE it! | Orlando Oliveira
(16/05/2007) | 10 |
| fantastic | muriel dyga
(16/05/2007) | 10 |
| Mint sauce! | Ian Gav
(16/05/2007) | 10 |
| Baa baa better be POTW!! Fab, smiley, clever and god I wish I had taken it! | Natalie Durell
(15/05/2007) | 10 |
| Superb shot Richard, the landscape format suits this shot as it needs the space around it as you say. I presume you used 5 fps or high speed crop ?
Well done!! | Mick Robinson
(15/05/2007) | 10 |
| Excellent capture Richard, this certainly deserves top marks. | Bob Taylor
(15/05/2007) | 10 |
| Love it, | Ivan Aguilera
(15/05/2007) | 10 |
| What an absolute great capture Richard.
10 and upwards | Leslie Garner Johansen
(15/05/2007) | 10 |
| well, here's another old boy going soggy. Not only charming but how well taken is this?!! Unless you hung it from a bit of string this is just such perfect timing lol. And the exposure and composition is spot on. Have you sold it yet, you should have. | Tony Murphy
(15/05/2007) | 10 |
| Must add my congratulations to this one, Richard - absolutely delightful. | Tommy Ga Ken Wan
(15/05/2007) | 10 |
| Well done, Peter! A wonderful shot. | Dave Symington
(15/05/2007) | 10 |
| Brilliant, best picture I've seen in ages, absolutely love it. | Kathy Hancock
(15/05/2007) | 10 |
| misread it and thought you said you'd just come back from Hull ! Luckily, I read on. What a wonderful moment. Even Uncle Eric gets a bit soppy on occasion and get just about see through his misted eyes well enough to award top banana. | Eric Hands
(15/05/2007) | 10 |
| Discuss this photo |
| When,Oh When...will we be able to correct critique typos ? | Eric Hands
(15/05/2007) |
| Thanks all, oh and Dave...who is Peter? ;o) | Richard Peters
(15/05/2007) |
| Sorry, Richard, I meant Richard! I was having a craft moment. | Dave Symington
(15/05/2007) |
| Thanks for all the kind comments and votes everyone :)
Mick, I was using HSC mode so 8fps to capture all the action that was going on :) | Richard Peters
(15/05/2007) |
| Well done - The system picked your shot based on votes, as being this weeks POTW. | Nick Lewis (Editor)
(19/05/2007) |
| Thanks so much for the votes everyone and sorry for not saying so sooner. I have been in France for 4 days with no net access. Thanks again everyone, glad you liked lamby :) | Richard Peters
(21/05/2007) |
| Just saw this on Country File and remembered it from Nfolio immediately! Congratulations on getting in the calender, it's very well deserved! | Anne Gill
(16/09/2007) |
| Thank you very much Anne, I am thrilled to bits as you can imagine!:o) | Richard Peters
(16/09/2007) |
