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    tree swallows, that is... sometimes they let me get close, like this one who posed for me even as i got so close my 100-400L wouldn't focus, and i had to back off a step... 40D, 400mm, 1/800 @ f/10...

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    tree swallows, that is... sometimes they let me get close, like this one who posed for me even as i got so close my 100-400L wouldn't focus, and i had to back off a step... 40D, 400mm, 1/800 @ f/10...
    WOW ... you were within 1.8m then! Amazingly close for these little guys!! Love the blues in the feathers!

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