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Goddamn that is some majestic poo poo right there.
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A few pictures from a recent trip to Australia, where the wildlife, like the people, has no concept of fear Australian Water Dragon (New South Wales, Australia) by Farley, on Flickr Crimson Rosella (New South Wales, Australia) by Farley, on Flickr Orange Threadtail Damselfly (Queensland, Australia) by Farley, on Flickr
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I finally got the opportunity to visit the National Zoo. Tiger by cha_reckoning, on Flickr  Mongoose pile by cha_reckoning, on Flickr  Gorilla Profile by cha_reckoning, on Flickr  Panda 3 by cha_reckoning, on Flickr
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One of the local elk herds. Doesn't usually come up to my altitude, but there they were. Three Bulls The Herd and Their Boat by B. B., on Flickr
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Had some spare time on a university campus before a job interview.   
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Megabound posted:Had some spare time on a university campus before a job interview. this is uq lakes right?
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underage at the vape shop posted:this is uq lakes right? Sure is
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So my family likes to go on vacations every few years, and take lots of photos when we do. This is a first pass through the family archive for non-bird wildlife - most of these photos were taken by me or my father, I've labeled the subjects and locations as best I remember. Bears - Alaska wildlife rehab center  Bear - Alaska wildlife rehab center  Orca - Alaska cruise  Sea otter - Alaska cruise  Seal? - California?  Deer - Rocky Mountains  Mountain goats - Waterton National Park  Elk - Grand Tetons National Park?  Bison - Yellowstone National Park  Alligator - Everglades National Park  Moose - Grand Tetons National Park  Chipmunk? - Grand Tetons National Park This little guy was sitting on a prominent rock at a beautiful scenic overlook - very tame, probably used to being fed by people stopping at the overlook. I instead took a photo of this very cooperative subject.  Ground squirrels? - Yellowstone National Park  Deer - Yellowstone National Park  Mountain goat - Glacier National Park  Bighorn sheep - Yellowstone National Park
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Cythereal posted:
You have some great pictures there, which ones are yours and which are your dad's? They're all pretty good, I'm just curious. I'm the only half-way serious photographer in my family. ExecuDork fucked around with this message at 16:58 on Jan 18, 2018 |
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ExecuDork posted:This is probably a Golden-manteld Ground Squirrel. Much like yours, my GF and I met one on top of a mountain in Jasper NP a couple of years ago; it was fat and sassy and clearly used to hand-outs. We thought it was a chipmunk, too, but our guide book pointed out that very common mistake. Some of the photos that come up through a GIS are hilarious - obese squirrels galore. IIRC, mine were that chipmunk/squirrel, the Yellowstone deer with its ears sticking up (we call it the llama deer photo), the moose in the water, the two ground squirrels, the goat sticking up out of the bushes, and maybe the bighorn sheep - I can't remember whether it was me or my dad who took that one. Everything that wasn't me from this set was my dad, I think.
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I was corrected on identifying those this past summer myself when touring through Yellowstone. A squirrel will have no stripes on its head, a chipmunk does. edit - the dude that told me about them was awesome. He was in his 80's, had some ancient nikkon and he was machine gunning everything. told me about how his wife had died several years ago and when that happened he decided to pull up stakes and go see everything he could before he died too.. claimed to have never deleted a picture, at the rate he was going he must have a million-plus exposures stored somewhere. xzzy fucked around with this message at 18:08 on Jan 18, 2018 |
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Fair enough. Where I'm from and live has neither chipmunks nor ground squirrels, so we were guessing. I'll look through the other folders in the archive later. We saw drat near everything on the first Yellowstone trip except a lynx. Unfortunately, the best photo we got of the wolves we saw amounts to a series of dark smudges in the grass from a long distance away. The moose in the water also has a bit of a funny story attached to it. We were hiking a trail in the Tetons when we rounded a bend in the trail and found a lake - with a moose in the water close to shore munching on plants in the lake. We immediately backed off and took a photo from a long distance, then cautiously came closer as we realized it didn't give a gently caress about us. We stayed firmly on the trail, though, and didn't try to approach the water. Can't provide many details about the Alaska photos, I had to miss that trip unfortunately but the two bears in the first photo were apparently a mama bear tussling with a cub. I did, however, check with my parents and there is one in that set that wasn't me or my dad - my mom took that photo of the mountain goat and its kid. That's a salt lick the mama goat is busy with.
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Hah that reminds me about 80 year old dude again. When I called a squirrel a chipmunk and he corrected me, he asked where I lived and I said Illinois. "Oh that explains why you don't know how to identify animals then." Corncobbed.
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Megabound posted:Sure is Heh, nice.
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More from the family archive.  Gator - Everglades National Park  Baby gators - Everglades National Park  Elk? - Yellowstone National Park  Bison - Yellowstone National Park  Mountain goat - Grand Tetons National Park  Mountain goat - Grand Tetons National Park  Moose - Yellowstone National Park  Mountain goat - Waterton National Park This is the baby from the previous Waterton photo where it was with its mother - they seemed to be licking the parking lot and cars at a trailhead for salt.  Mountain goat - Waterton National Park Same group as the other parking lot goats.  Mountain goat - Waterton National Park Just in case you thought I was joking.  Rodent - Yellowstone National Park  Pronghorn - Yellowstone National Park  Coyote - Yellowstone National Park  Marmot - Glacier National Park I'm disappointed none of our pika photos turned out well. Those things drove us insane on the Yellowstone trip - a trail took us through a big talus slope where we stopped for lunch, and it took us forever to find the little critters making the boingy noises.
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I'm getting 10 days in March between Tanzania and Kenya. Scrolling through this thread has basically cranked the hell out of my excitement.
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Found some wild horses on Sunday:      DJExile posted:I'm getting 10 days in March between Tanzania and Kenya. Scrolling through this thread has basically cranked the hell out of my excitement.
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The 4th pic is the most ‘live action Bojack Horseman’ picture ever.
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 Backyard Bobcat by Josh, on FlickrFound this guy/gal sitting over its breakfast in my backyard this morning. Not pictured: A very dead squirrel. edit: I wish that loving blackberry stem was not where it is. BeastOfExmoor fucked around with this message at 05:43 on Jan 26, 2018 |
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Nice username/post content combo.
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Had a great time at a plant nursery yesterday with this lil' jumping spider. 
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Got a lot of tiger cub pictures today. Here are some of my favorites:   
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Zero One posted:Got a lot of tiger cub pictures today. Here are some of my favorites: I particularly like these two.  Tilden Deer hasta luego-3364 on Flickr
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Things you find while looking for owls:  Wow, intense! Love this shot.
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Jealous of the porcupine encounter. It's a species I've fancied seeing since Jenaya Launstein got a photo of one in to the WPOTY.
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Pablo Bluth posted:Jealous of the porcupine encounter. It's a species I've fancied seeing since Jenaya Launstein got a photo of one in to the WPOTY.
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Porcupines are my "nemesis mammal" (like a nemesis bird- something by all rights you should have seen but for some reason haven't). The only one I've seen was in a tree next to the road in Yellowstone and I just got a quick look driving by at 25mph. It's an awesome shot. The moose is really nice too, although you might play with cropping a tiny bit to get rid of some of the snow on the right side of the frame?
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I've photographed moose, in the caravan park in Grand Nipple NP.
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torgeaux posted:Derp
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ExecuDork posted:I said this out loud when I saw your picture, before I scrolled down far enough to see the name. It's kind of on the nose.
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You are all set for the March contest.
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That newt is cool and good BRW40744 by Ben Wilcox, on Flickr BRW30232 by Ben Wilcox, on Flickr
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This seems as good a place as any to dump a bunch of poo poo I learned spending a week on safari in Tanzania between Arusha, Tarangiere National Park, Ngorongoro Crater, and Serengeti National Park. Here's some dumb gay advice from a bad photographer. Take it or leave it. BODIES - If you have two, take two. If you have one, either buy or rent another. Partly because you really don't want to have your only body fail you while you're getting some once-in-a-lifetime opportunities, partly also because it's far easier to switch between two bodies that have a really long lens, and a relatively shorter zoom lens. Being dust/water sealed may as well be a requirement, same with stabilization. LENSES - Boy I hope you've got reach. My main body (with a 2x crop) had a 300mm f/4 with a 1.4x teleconverter attached and this accounted for a good 85% of my shots. Animals like water buffalo, zebras and impalas don't mind hanging out near the roadways, but most of the predators are going to be up in trees or off at a distance and you'll need all the reach you can get. There are also some absolutely gorgeous birds that are relatively small (think finch/weaver sized) and even if they're close, they're very small and having plenty of reach to fill the frame will be really helpful. My second body had a 40-150mm f/2.8 attached for relatively closer encounters, and being able to swap back and forth between the two quickly is a godsend. Plus it's been the rainy season out here and I'd rather not be swapping lenses even if I'm in a vehicle the whole time. East Africa is extremely humid as well, so all the fewer chances for water to invade, the better. I did also keep a 25mm f/1.2 prime on hand if anything struck my fancy on the wider end, but I can think of maybe 10-12 pictures I ever used it for. That said, if you love landscape photos, I'd absolutely take something wide. The Ngorongoro Crater and Serengeti lend themselves really well to wide, sweeping landscape shots. BAG - I'd 100% recommend a shoulder/messenger bag over a backpack because you're going to spend 90% of your time with the bag in front of you in the vehicle, and having an open top bag to swap between bodies is far easier than it would be with most backpacks. MEMORY - This is obviously going to depend on your specific body, but mine has 2 card slots and I set up to record to each simultaneously. Top card slot had really fast 32 or 64GB cards, bottom on each had a 256GB that would take any video recording and basically functioned as backup #1. Backup #2 was an external SSD that I copied the day's shots from the big card onto. OTHER poo poo - Other things in the bag included a lens pen, rocket blower, plenty of extra batteries and cards, ear buds, and a USB battery for my cell phone. I'd also recommend some DEET, sunblock, painkillers, and some pepto bismol or other nausea medication as you are basically never on paved roads, and the dirt roads are extremely bumpy and can toss you around a bit. Having some cheap earbuds or headphones to help kill some of the driving (well, riding) time with some music isn't a bad idea either. BACKUP ROUTINE - I have a Samsung Chromebook Plus that basically works as a conduit between a card reader and SSD. Both being USB-C means dumping card contents to the SSD runs relatively quickly. I took the chromebook over my main laptop because it's a ton lighter (there can be some very tight baggage restrictions I'll talk about later), and far more expendable than my Surface Book. Every night I'd dump the big card's shots from the day onto the SSD, then format the smaller cards. Online backup basically isn't going to happen. Internet access, if you can even get it at all, is largely satellite based and very slow. Some camps will also limit the bandwidth you can use to as little as 20MB per day. LUGGAGE/CLOTHING - If your travel is going to include flying on smaller aircraft from location to location, you're going to be limited to about 35lbs (16 kg) of baggage per person grand total. This includes your camera gear, so plan accordingly. I took 3 pairs of hiking pants, and 3 of those button-up hiking/fishing shirts, along with sweat-wicking underwear and a couple under shirts. Camp suds are relatively cheap and let you do laundry in a sink easily. Those hiking shirts and pants dry out really fast so you can easily hang things up overnight and be good to go in the morning. I'd recommend a soft pair of hiking shoes or cross-trainers. you don't need anything too nuts since you're largely just in the vehicle, but some light/waterproof shoes can be helpful. A packable wide brimmed hat looks goofy but is really nice to help keep the sun off your face and neck. If your air travel is just on major carriers, then you just have to deal with their likely less restrictive baggage rules. GUIDE/DRIVER - Safaris are definitely not cheap, but if you're going to splurge anywhere on your trip, splurge here. Having a good guide is an absolute godsend and can make life a lot easier for you. They will know the park roads like the back of their hands and are usually in pretty constant radio contact with others about various game in the parks, so if you are particular about wanting to see and photograph specific animals, they'll know where to head. The vehicle of choice out here is a Toyota Landcruiser that usually has both USB and (usually) UK standard plugs to help you keep things charged. STABILIZATION - I was worried about leaving my monopod at home but as luck would have it I never really found myself wanting it. Mostly because the interior of a Toyota Landcruiser doesn't allow for the space anyway, and you can rest your elbows on the window frame or roof pretty easily. I have seen other people recommend beanbags and the like as well, but didn't see any of those in use, so YMMV. Anyway that's my dumb advice. I'll get some more photos up when I can.
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^^^ Nice, just realized the post before that probably wasn't zoo Maybe of interest here- I just put up my Tamron 150-600 gen 1 (Canon) in Buy/Sell.
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