Fortunately, the E-1 was in my hand when the fisher's cousin paid a visit to
the currant bushes which are all of 3m from my desk. I was speaking on the
phone at the time, so these are one-handed grab shots through the window
(you may spot some reflections). Taken two months ago.
http://www.hemy.me.uk/Miscellany/martes.html
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Piers
-----Original Message-----
From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Dean Hansen
Sent: 10 September 2007 04:50
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] And where's the E-1?
I climbed into my elevated deer stand yesterday about 6PM just to sit
and watch the woods. After a half hour I noticed a small bit of movement,
and low and behold a fisher walked/jumped into view less than 30' away.
What's a fisher? Think mink on steroids, or, roughly, a very skinny, but
very large, cat with short legs. Beautiful animal! It actively poked its
nose here and there, scampered about, and generally entertained me for over
a minute. And the E-1? Back in the cabin, regretfully. The fisher finally
worked its way away from me, but then it turned a 180 and moved up the path
I had taken to my stand. Closer, closer, until it walked less than 2' away
from the base of the ladder to my stand. It jumped onto a rotten log all
but directly below me; it was now no more than 14' away from me, straight
down. I took my imaginary E-1, cranked the 14-54 lens to 54mm, and took
some frame-filling, if imaginary, shots. It was an absolutely magic couple
of minutes. I've never in my 65 years been that close for that long to a
fisher. But one can't take a photo if one doesn't have a camera along.
Next time I'm in that stand I'll bring the E-1 along.
There's a decent (better than anything I took) shot of a fisher at
www.borealforest.org/zoo/fisher.htm.
Dean
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