Your best animal shots!

[Click]

Very nice first post, Bryan. Welcome to CR.

 

[Don Haines]

From this morning at work.....

Documenting an equipment setup so off across the field to take some pictures in the remote hut.... On the way back I was dragging out an old satellite dish through the field behind me when out of the fog Bambi appears and comes over to check me out.....

With noise I was making, this was most definitely NOT a case of great fieldcraft and sneaking up on the critter.... I was not quiet with the dish dragging behind me..... perhaps it's like a giant cat toy that works on deer......

Both shots with a 7D2 and 17-55 lens, ISO 1280, 1/40th second, and uncropped

Its amazing how close you can get, when in Shenandoah and smokeys earlier in the year you could walk straight up to them. The red deer here in Cumbria UK are so unused to any people that you have to be crawling on all fours at 500m to get anywhere near! Yet if you head to Richmond park in London you can walk straight up to them no problem to me it sort of ruins the fun…

I read an amusing article on FB yesterday on outdoor photographys page where a photographer explained how he had taken the image (which was wonderful) but it was in Richmond park, its literally just outside central London with hundreds of thousands of people walking through each year the deer are so tame that he could get within 20m!

www.outdoorphotographer.com/blog/behind-the-shot/2015/11/behind-the-shot-autumn-call-by-mark-bridger-richmond-park-london-england.html?utm_source=facebook&ute_medium=status&utm_campaign=bts

So being used to living a bit out in the wilds and getting even remotely close you have to be extremely lucky it gave me a bit of a laugh that they made such a big article about it, the comparisons are almost off the scale!

It does make me feel a bit annoyed as with real wild animals that live out of the reach of humans, getting a good shot takes a great amount of time and skill. But you can just wander to a place like Richmond park and get featured in the magazine! lol

The firing range and deer are an interesting combination.... It is a military firing range with a huge are behind it as a "nature preserve" and marked "firing range - Danger - keep out". Year after year, about the start of hunting season, deer head there in the hundreds because they know they are safe. We have our antenna range as part of the site so a lot of the deer wander out into our fields to eat.... Not wilderness at all, but they are wild deer and uncaged.... I think it is a wonderful example of how they have adapted to human behaviour.

 

[Don Haines]

Hi,
After lurking around for over a year and picking up some really useful information from many of you I've finally registered and plucked up the courage to post a couple of pictures.

I'd certainly appreciate your thoughts any constructive criticism in a bid to improve my game.

Thanks in advance.

Welcome to the forum, nice pictures...

 

[chops411]

Cade's Cove Great Smoky Mountains YoYo by Eddie Johnson, on Flickr

 

[FEBS]

A few from my visit to Uganda:

 

[FEBS]

And what would a visit of Uganda mean without visiting the mountain gorillas:

 

[Click]

A few from my visit to Uganda:

Beautiful pictures. 8) Well done FEBS.

 

[rpt]

A few from my visit to Uganda:

Beautiful pictures. 8) Well done FEBS.

+1

 

[FEBS]

Thx rpt and click.

I changed the first picture of the gorillas above as I placed the wrong link.

 

[Northstar]

And what would a visit of Uganda mean without visiting the mountain gorillas:

very nice FEBS!

 

[FEBS]

very nice FEBS!

Thanks Northstar

 

[ray5]

A few from my visit to Uganda:

Awesome shots!!

 

[tomscott]

A few from my visit to Uganda:

Absolutely amazing images. Im heading to uganda early next year and these images have me really excited!

 

[FEBS]

A few from my visit to Uganda:

Absolutely amazing images. Im heading to uganda early next year and these images have me really excited!

It was really THE time of my life over there. Such a nice wildlife, exceptional !!!

In the rain-forest, 2.8 lenses and FF are really needed.

 

[Skulker]

I do like bears.


All these are totally wild the first one is a bit of a crop, but I was about 20ft away from his teeth.
They really are not scared of you at all!

 

[Skulker]

And what would a visit of Uganda mean without visiting the mountain gorillas:

Some lovely images there. Love the gorilla ones.

 

[Click]

I do like bears.


All these are totally wild the first one is a bit of a crop, but I was about 20ft away from his teeth.
They really are not scared of you at all!

Awesome. Great shots!

 

[FEBS]

And what would a visit of Uganda mean without visiting the mountain gorillas:

Some lovely images there. Love the gorilla ones.

Thx Skulker,

Your bear shots look very great. Hope to do this also one time.

 

[Don Haines]

A few from my visit to Uganda:

They are all nice, but I am particularly impressed on the panning of the giraffe..... it looks like was really moving!

 

[eml58]

I do like bears.

Wonderful images, in particular the first

Where did you shoot these ??