Your best animal shots!

[bjd]

One of my best shots. At least for yesterday..
I managed to annoy a Red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) by not moving out of its way and insisting to stick around and photograph him/her.

Great shot of a red squirrel,

Nice to see some shots of squirrels where they are not being torn apart by some bird.

It was a bad month for squirrels on CR in March ;D

So whats with the ear tufts? Ours have them too now. Mating plumage?
Cheers Brian

 

[DominoDude]

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Great shot of a red squirrel,
Nice to see some shots of squirrels where they are not being torn apart by some bird.
It was a bad month for squirrels on CR in March ;D

So whats with the ear tufts? Ours have them too now. Mating plumage?
Cheers Brian

Thanks Sporgon! I tend to shoot live birds and animals. Prefer to have them alive before, during and after my photo sessions.
Yeah Brian, I noticed those tufts too, and can't remember seeing such big ones before on any Red squirrel. I'm just guessing, but it could perhaps be a leftover from the rather long and cold, icy, winter we've had here.

 

[bjd]

--8<--Snipp!--8<--

Great shot of a red squirrel,
Nice to see some shots of squirrels where they are not being torn apart by some bird.
It was a bad month for squirrels on CR in March ;D

So whats with the ear tufts? Ours have them too now. Mating plumage?
Cheers Brian

Thanks Sporgon! I tend to shoot live birds and animals. Prefer to have them alive before, during and after my photo sessions.
Yeah Brian, I noticed those tufts too, and can't remember seeing such big ones before on any Red squirrel. I'm just guessing, but it could perhaps be a leftover from the rather long and cold, icy, winter we've had here.

Apparently its the Winter fell/coat. They'll be gone after the next moult.
Cheers Brian

 

[degies]

Sad Eyes - Who said 2xTC's are no good

 

[Shendo Photo]

Doing some yardwork this weekend, we notice we have a special guest in our backyard...

 

[sandymandy]

50mm 1.8 II

im not an animal photographer nor do i like wild animals to be held hostage. still there are just like 3000 tigers or such in the world so it was a good chance to see one alive. who knows if the future generation can do it?
NO cage.

 

[melbournite]

I pulled out my 50mm 1.4 and rediscovered my love for it after spending too much time with my 24-70 II. This was shot at 1.8

 

[sandymandy]

Bokeh is really nice but i think it looks reaaally soft.

another one of the tiger so u can see how close u could go

also, creepy pandas ................

 

[Sporgon]

50mm 1.8 II

im not an animal photographer nor do i like wild animals to be held hostage. still there are just like 3000 tigers or such in the world so it was a good chance to see one alive. who knows if the future generation can do it?
NO cage.

That tiger's got it's eye on you. You're very brave using a 50mm. I wouldn't have considered that shot on anything shorter than a 400mm ;D

 

[sandymandy]

Well it was on APS-C so its more like 80mm. I talked to the tiger so she looks into my camera. i hesitated to go closer.
You could also sit next to the tiger and let ur friends take photos of that for like 3 us dollars. I didnt want to do that cuz cats are my gods so it felt really wrong to me. but yeah im wondering also what they gonna do if the tiger gets angry? perhaps it was declawed

 

[rpt]

Well it was on APS-C so its more like 80mm. You could also sit next to the tiger and let ur friends take photos of that for like 3 us dollars. I didnt want to do that cuz cats are my gods so it felt really wrong to me. but yeah im wondering also what they gonna do if the tiger gets angry? perhaps it was declawed

Don't forget a smack from the paw could break your neck if it wanted to! Declawed means very little really...

The picture looks good. However, I wonder how strong that brass thingie is...

 

[Sporgon]

I can't match the amazing light on eml58's beautiful Java shots, ( anything shot on a 1Dx ) but here's one of mine.

I've been playing around with tweaking some pictures after sizing for the web and I think it produces a better result for viewing at a small size.

5D + 40mm @2.8

 

[Don Haines]

Captured with a T1i

WOW WOW WOW!!!!!

 

[ERHP]

Two shots of a bobcat I spotted at San Simeon SP. Realize the branch in front of the cat is a distraction but it was there. There is a wooden boardwalk that leads from the parking load to the back trails and the kitteh was paralleling it as I went along.

5D MK III with a 600 f/4 v1 & 1.4TC III

Ticks....

 

[eml58]

I can't match the amazing light on eml58's beautiful Java shots, ( anything shot on a 1Dx ) but here's one of mine.

I've been playing around with tweaking some pictures after sizing for the web and I think it produces a better result for viewing at a small size.

5D + 40mm @2.8

Hi Sporgon, you've picked a difficult shot for anyone, reflected light, off water, with shadows, and you've managed not to blow the highlights, well done.

I see done with the new 40mm Pancake ?? looks good

 

[PhotoConceptsDT]

This one is nothing fancy, but was fun to capture.

 

[Idiot4Hire]

After spending quite a bit of time standing on a rock in the middle of a swamp I was happy to have been able to capture these shots of Dragonflys.

I got many shots of them resting on bits of grass, but what I was really after was shots of them in flight.


Dragonfly resting on a bit of dried grass by Idiot4Hire, on Flickr

I managed to get a few of these that were actually in focus (those things move so fast for their size!).


Dragonfly in flight by Idiot4Hire, on Flickr

I hope that you enjoy looking at them as much as I enjoyed taking them.

I was using my 7D with an old ef-s 55-250mm lens.

 

[TeenTog]

White Tail Deer in Cades Cove, Great Smoky Mountains NP

Wild Turkey, Same place

 

[PureShot]

7D with 24-105mm in my studio.

 

[Flimin]

Canon 650d + Tamron 70-300 f4-5.6 di vc usd

1/200 f7.1 IS0200 147mm


Giraffe and bark by Flimin, on Flickr