Obligatory Duck ..... post your "first" duck pic here!

[Tom Reichner]

At POTN, there was a longstanding tradition that when members would get a new camera or a new lens, they would photograph a duck with the new gear. Then one of those duck pics would be the first photo they would post that was taken with the new lens or body.

Although this duck photo I am posting was not taken with new gear, this is a "first" for me - my first post to Focus on Photography!

So, let's continue the old POTN tradition here by posting a duck photo that is a "first" for you - either a pic taken with new gear, or your first pic posted to the forum, or even your first bird photo posted to the forum. As long as it's some kind of "first" for you, let's see your duck!

Photo details:
Taken along the Choptank River in Maryland, U.S.A.
Canon 1D Mark 4 ... Canon 100-400mm f5.6 v2
zoomed to 170mm / ISO 800 / f9 / 1/4,000 of a second
editing work done to remove big unsightly distractions from the bottom edge of the frame

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

My very first duck on the forum.
From a long time ago, but still a favourite.

Canon 1DIIn & EF 400mm f/5.6L
ISO800 - f/5.6 - 1/1250s

 

[gjl711]

In the spirit of old traditions, way way back when I first got serious about digital, I used a 300D for work but I bought an XT (350D) for my personal camera. I didn't know it at the time but the camera had some serious issues and would spend weeks at Canon Service. But those problems are what brought me to discover POTN. I didn't know at the time about the POTN or about the duck tradition but the first image of that camera just happened to have a duck in it. It was a wooden duck with it's head on a spring, but a duck none the less. Here is my first picture taken with my first digital SLR way back in June of 2006.

 

[ShipleyNW]

Maybe it's me, but I think ducks are hard to shoot. Gulls and pipers and herons are the shorebirds I practice on.

Anyway, here's the earliest duck in my LRC keeper catalog.

 

[gjl711]

BTW.. Do geese count as ducks?

 

[Yno]

This was my duck picture from POTN when I bought my EF 400 L.

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

BTW.. Do geese count as ducks?

 

[Bambers]

It wasn’t the very first picture on my new phone, but within a day of getting it! There are ducks!

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[West Coast Birder]

My first duck image was hotlinked to POTN from Imageshack. I went back and looked and the link is broken, probably because Imageshack changed its TOS and all my images have disappeared on the site. I’ll have to fire up an old computer to retrieve it from the hard drive.

 

[Tom Reichner]

BTW.. Do geese count as ducks?

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I don't think so. . As far as I know, no species known as a goose is in the same genus as any of the ducks. . They are pretty much differentiated from one another, as far as the professionals who study and categorize them are concerned. . Ducks are really easy for everybody to find, on any continent, so I don't see why one would have to use a goose instead of a duck, other than for pure laziness of just wanting to use something that was already shot instead of going out and shooting a new pic of a duck. . If you don't already have a duck pic, just go out and shoot one. . Then you could truly post your "first duck" pic, and that would give you a leg up on those of us who are posting from our archives!

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[OhLook]

I managed to find these old duck photos from 2013. If they hadn't contained ducks, I wouldn't think they merited posting. In ten years, I've become pickier about quality.

 

[pcs]

First ducks in our garden:

 

[Lester Wareham]

birds Pintail m A32_15-11-23-0002 by Lester W, on Flickr

 

[garryknight]

My first duck post to this forum is one that I took back when I joined POTN, and the one that I posted earlier today to sign off of POTN.

Mandarin by Garry Knight, on Flickr

 

[Dilopix54]

Duck!

 

[DavidWatts]

Gosh. Ducks. Well, why not. My tradition is when I put in a new card in the camera is to take a picture of a cat. I can't remember when the first duck shot happened - must have been when I was a kid with a cheapo Kodak Instamatic. Or later in College on film. But here is my first duck at Hilton Head (and at FoP), if that counts. I also found much earlier pics of geese, but their necks were too long to qualify and I'd be called out for posting geese here.

American Coot

Canon 5D3, Canon 70-200 L IS @ 200mm, f/6.3, 1/800, iso 400

 

[garryknight]

American Coot

Someone tell him...

 

[Lester Wareham]

Gosh. Ducks. Well, why not. My tradition is when I put in a new card in the camera is to take a picture of a cat. I can't remember when the first duck shot happened - must have been when I was a kid with a cheapo Kodak Instamatic. Or later in College on film. But here is my first duck at Hilton Head (and at FoP), if that counts. I also found much earlier pics of geese, but their necks were too long to qualify and I'd be called out for posting geese here.

American Coot

Canon 5D3, Canon 70-200 L IS @ 200mm, f/6.3, 1/800, iso 400

Cat, threads. Love cats. Start a thread (not in birds of course, that would be asking for trouble).

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

Gosh. Ducks. Well, why not. My tradition is when I put in a new card in the camera is to take a picture of a cat. I can't remember when the first duck shot happened - must have been when I was a kid with a cheapo Kodak Instamatic. Or later in College on film. But here is my first duck at Hilton Head (and at FoP), if that counts. I also found much earlier pics of geese, but their necks were too long to qualify and I'd be called out for posting geese here.

American Coot

Canon 5D3, Canon 70-200 L IS @ 200mm, f/6.3, 1/800, iso 400

A Coot, American or otherwise, is not a duck!

 

[OhLook]

* * * AMERICAN COOT! * * *