Action or behavior of animals, creatures, (& carnivorous plants), of the wild!

[Walt Conley]

Thank you for the welcome. By the way, I love the shots above by Jody.

Info regarding these shots is that I live on a wooded bluff that is host to several nesting eagles. Every year around Mother's day (seems appropriate), we really start to see some activities as the young eagles start to fly and learn to ride the ridge lift. While it's common to see them it is rare to have them interacting with each other within reach of a lens while I'm home and have my camera at the ready. For this shot and the two below, I was using a Canon 20D with 70-200 f2.8L with 1.4 and 2.0 extenders stacked on the lens. Therefore, the absolute image clarity was compromised but I think acceptable for web display or small prints. The camera was on a tripod with a Wimberly Sidekick which really helps when tracking birds like this. These images were compilations of multiple shots taken at the same time. The above shot from well timed shutter releases, the one below were images taken at the frame rate of the camera. The blue sky made combining the images in photoshop with layers easy.



Flight School 2

Flight School 1

- In this crop, the image quality compromise of the two extenders can easily be seen.

 

[Don Cohen]

Thanks for the added information. What a great place to live, to see this kind of activity basically in your own back yard.

Image quality will definitely suffer with stacked converters, but sometimes you do what you have to do to get the picture.

So the original shot you posted is a composite image? I wondered about that when I first saw it, but wasn't sure.

Thanks again.

 

[Wade Skinner]

The rabbit shot is my personal fave. Some really nice timing there. You must be a patient photographer to have gotten these shots!

 

[Winston Mitchell]

Drinking Lion
Duba Plains, Botswana

©2010 Winston C Mitchell
Sony A700 ,70-400G
1/800s f/5.0 at 200.0mm iso640

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[Asher Kelman]

Drinking Lion
Duba Plains, Botswana

©2010 Winston C Mitchell
Sony A700 ,70-400G
1/800s f/5.0 at 200.0mm iso640

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This is one magnificent shot of a fierce royal beast lapping water like a domestic pussycat! Once again, I'm amazed by the quality of the picture from the Sony camera! Who's have thought!

Were you in a truck or on some kind of platform?

Asher

 

[Winston Mitchell]

Asher,

There were eight of us in two of these:

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[Asher Kelman]

Asher,

There were eight of us in two of these:

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Is it that the abundant wold game are more tasty than hums or do the lions tell each other it would be a bad, bad survival idea?



Asher

 

[Winston Mitchell]

It's as if the vehicles don't exist. Even the birds don't care much. I have seen a cheetah jump on the hood of an occupied land rover to get a better look at a prospective meal. I have also seen cheetahs use the vehicles for cover.

 

[Jeff Donovan]

Hey all!

Just returned from the Outer Banks of North Carolina and had a great opportunity to photograph some osprey's at close range. The nests are located right behind this restaurant:

http://www.yelp.com/biz/basnights-lone-cedar-cafe-nags-head​

The nests are about 10 feet off the shore and apparently the birds are used to having humans watching them because they didn't mind me standing there snapping photos for an hour. Here are some of my favorites.

Coasting along over the water

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Sticking out its tongue

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Dinner arrives

All photos copyrighted by Jeff Donovan 2011

 

[Asher Kelman]

Jeff,

This one is my favorite as there's sop much action!

© Jeff Donovan 2011: Dinner Arrives
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Dinner is in the talons and the nestlings are voraciously ready! Maybe crop some from the top as the open mouth of the chick is the main focus of interest. That's where the food will go, LOL!

Superb!

Asher

P.S. Now please go to the recent posts and find 3 photographer's pictures for you to comment on! That will help make OPF work as we look after and value each other.

 

[Andy brown]

Nothing special.
A Humble Silver gull having a bit of a stretch.

I do like its sandy foot.

 

[Adrian Wareham]

-Adrian

 

[Asher Kelman]

-Adrian

I love the brush stroke shape that the bird makes. Striking!

Asher

 

[Adrian Wareham]

Thanks, Asher! The raven almost appears made of polished black marble.

 

[Asher Kelman]

Time for a call from the wild! Any shots of wild animal action or behavior?

Check your shoes boxes and hard drives!

Asher

 

[Antonio Correia]

Any good ?

 

[Asher Kelman]

Of course, these are great creatures, very affectionate to each other, but don't get in their way!

 

[Don Cohen]

Any good ?

Definitely - doing what they enjoy most! Thanks for sharing.

 

[Cem_Usakligil]

Definitely - doing what they enjoy most! Thanks for sharing.

Ditto! Definitely good.

 

[Antonio Correia]

Thank you guys

 

[Doug Herr]

 

[Asher Kelman]

Answering back or giving lip ain't gonna help you old chap!

Asher

 

[Don Cohen]

Great capture, Doug - couldn't ask for more!

 

[Don Ferguson Jr.]

Here you go with three Toms in a row. Not the best shot but they were wild going across the field.
Don

 

[Doug Herr]

Snow Goose:

 

[Lee Tracy]

Ant Farm

Large and rather spiky ants farming aphids. These are a local species of ant that BITE! Yup don't get in their way. I have them all over the garden - definitely no sugar ants around with these guys in the vicinity. Discovered them all over this bush and then realised they were farming aphids when I came back and looked at the photos. Went back a second time with the macro filter on my camera to get some better shots.

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[Andy brown]

This little charmer is an Australian Blue Tongued lizard

 

[Don Cohen]

Quite an impressive tongue and photo!

 

[Andy brown]

Thanks Don, it's a defensive display.
They're fairly placid however.
I think they're the world's largest skink (?) at about 18 inches long.
A classic character of the Aussie bush.

 

[Don Cohen]

My dog spends hours trying (unsuccessfully) to catch small blue-linked skinks on our deck - can't imagine what she'd do if she encountered an 18" one!