MSA O/N October, 2025 - "Birds"

[What About Bob]

@Don_ih: I agree. Different varieties: to the rough, active/inactive and comical. There are also many different personalities and expressions on display here. Like the Laysan Albatross pose and bird in flight with the sitting bird taking notice by @BAC1967. Love the black and white silhouette scenes of birds by @Ivo Stunga. The bird posing at Perth by @OAPOli reminds me of a punk rocker.

 

[What About Bob]

New Image: 10/03/2025
"On Guard" - Bird statue in downtown Northampton
Hasselblad 501C with 120 Makro Planar lens
T-Max 100 at 100
1/15th at f6.7
PQ Universal, reversal process. First developer for 9:15 at 72.6F/22.5C

 

[snusmumriken]

Dead birds are fine - even just parts of them:

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Even unhatched birds are fine.

American crow?

 

[Don_ih]

American crow?

It's about the right size for a crow. I found it one day on the ground (no other parts around). It's rare to find bird bones (unless you're eating chicken). It think I found it by train tracks (it was quite a while ago). I more often find dead foxes by the tracks.

 

[loccdor]

New, Oct 2nd - Olympus Pen F, e.zuiko auto-t 150mm f/4 lens, red filter, hp5+ @ 800 expired 2022, hc-110 7.5 minutes 20 C dilution B

Turkey Vultures

 

[garpet]

Birds flying over a cow shed, taken a couple weeks ago on a nikon ft that was PROMPTLY dropped in the mud a couple minutes after this. Kodak tmax 400

Earlier photo on tomography Potsdam Kino 100 (Orwo UN54+) taken on a Zenit ttl with a industar-50 lens and a malfunctioning shutter

 

[loccdor]

That's a high bird pairs per millimeter.

 

[chuckroast]

[OLD - Sep. 1996] Pfeiffer Beach/Big Sur, CA

Hasselblad 500C/M, 60mm f/3.5 Distagon, TMX, Tmax-RS, scan of silver print

 

[jeffreyg]

Some more for the old category.(not that old but not new) All on Ilford Deita 400 120 Rome

One way to catch a bird.

At Piazza San Marco Venice

Also at Piazza San Marco. I didn't realize I caught the flying bird in just the right spot until i developed the film.

Feathered friends?

 

[Don_ih]

PROMPTLY dropped in the mud

My apologies, but I laughed heartily at that.

@chuckroast - that's one purdy birdie photo.

 

[Reginald S]

A lot of owls here.

 

[dourbalistar]

Taking the "any bird" angle, here are two from the OLD category, taken in 2019. Coincidentally from the same roll of film, with a Nikon FM2n, Nikkor-S Auto 55mm f/1.2, ORWO N74+, developed in LegacyPro L110 at 1:31 for 6.5 minutes.

First generation Ford Thunderbird (1955-1956).

2019.04.27 Roll #202-03511-positive.jpg by dourbalistar, on Flickr


Strelitzia reginae, aka bird of paradise.

2019.04.27 Roll #202-03534-positive.jpg by dourbalistar, on Flickr

 

[Don_ih]

@dourbalistar -- excellent interpretations of the theme.