Pigeon at the Duck Park (Jupiter 8 Vintage Lens)

The nearest thing I do to natural history / bird photography.

A Pigeon at the Duck Park, shot with a Russian Jupiter 8 Vintage lens. The Jupiter 8 is a 50mm f2 prime lens. It's small, beautiful , light as a feather and as you can see takes half decent photos. The lens is a copy of a Zeiss Sonnar and mine is from 1973 !!!

Phil does natural history ...Alfie was talking to the Pigeon to keep it alert !!

[Philippa R]

Lovely shot, great bokeh! The pigeon looks like he/she is looking directly at Alfie!

[Suzanne]

Great shot of a very intent pigeon!

[Renee Salamon]

Lovely focus and composition

[Peter Dulis]

Cute

[Phil Howcroft]

@rensala manual focussing too Renee :)

@pdulis thanks Peter

@ankers70 yes very intent

[Mags]

Pretty pigeon and nice capture!

[Corinne C]

The pigeon seems to carefully listen to Alfie. A wonderful photo with great details. Your vintage lenses are great.

[Beryl Lloyd]

Nice shot Phil !

[Allison Williams]

Very nice

[Zilli]

Beautiful. Such clear details! The pigeon was really interested in what Elsie was telling her.

[Kerry McCarthy]

Great shot. Nice detail and dof. Looks like a nice lens. Good for Alfie helping out! :)

[LManning (Laura)]

Wonderful focus contrasted with the softness of the water.

[Issi Bannerman]

Your narrative made me smile. Nice shot.

[Christina]

Made me smile too :)

[Kathy A]

Nice portrait

[Casablanca]

Ha ha, sweet Alfie! I have to say my mind jumped immediately to the glorious satirist, Tom Lehrer, and his song about pigeons..... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNA9rQcMq00

[Dione Giorgio]

Stunning result with this impressive vintage lens. Fav.

[Judith Johnson]

Lovely sharp shot of it Phil

[Carole Sandford]

Nice shot. I’m always surprised that they have pretty colours, tend to think of them as grey.