Your best animal shots!

[Jack Douglas]

dpc V nice. Not over-sharpening! Ha ha. Trying to avoid the sharpening police are you.

Alan V nice. I can see some mothers who would defend to the death.

Jack

 

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Does this qualify as an animal ... all 5/8" of him??

Jack

Last I knew, yes. Great find and capture.

 

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Big horn lamb near Banff AB; the 'halo' around it's legs is caused by the sun shining through the fine hairs on its body, not by over sharpening...

Very nice pictures, dpc. I especially like the first one.

 

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Pygmy elephants in Northern Borneo. I wouldn't have liked to use shorter than 400mm for this shot.

Nice shot, Alan.

 

[dpc]

Big horn lamb near Banff AB; the 'halo' around it's legs is caused by the sun shining through the fine hairs on its body, not by over sharpening...

Very nice pictures, dpc. I especially like the first one.

Thanks! 8)

 

[Jack Douglas]

Does this qualify as an animal ... all 5/8" of him??

Jack

Last I knew, yes. Great find and capture.

Thanks. Our planet needs them all and many are threatened, sadly.

Jack

 

[Valvebounce]

Hi Alan.
Very cool shot, but I think I might have wanted 560mm on a crop giving an effective 896mm then and only then would I have felt far enough away, they can run at 25 mph, I'd want a really big head start back to a vehicle.

Cheers, Graham.

Pygmy elephants in Northern Borneo. I wouldn't have liked to use shorter than 400mm for this shot.

 

[Valvebounce]

Hi Kieth.
Sorry to hear about your cat getting caught up in the food chain.
Cats have a great sense of humour, we just don't get it!
Our old girl is deaf and she will start by talking at us quietly then when we don't reply she just gets louder and louder, we try to get her to look at us when we talk back but she doesn't find the silent movie (lips moving with no sound because she is deaf) thing funny either! :

Cheers, Graham.

Our older cat(got caught up in the food chain) would follow something totally invisible to us, them freak out and run into another room. That was really unnerving. Cat's have a really messed up sense of humor.

 

[Valvebounce]

Hi dpc.
Very nice shots.
: Did you notice the halo, might be over sharpened. ;D ;D ;D

Cheers, Graham.

 

[Nat_WA]

Pygmy elephants in Northern Borneo. I wouldn't have liked to use shorter than 400mm for this shot.

I quite agree... But I was in a situation in South Africa (Addo Elephant Park) once where we stopped at a good distance of a large family of African Elephants when just 5 meters behind our rental VW Polo suddenly the rest of the family appeared out of the brushes... I was so busy looking for a way out that I didn't even consider taking pictures when this group walked past our tin can - two feet between me and the passing elephant...
Luckily they were friendly and not agitated - not really interested in us - and I made sure I did not arouse them in any way

... and these African ones are BIG (picture taken earlier )

 

[Valvebounce]

Hi Wiebe.
Nice shot.
Wow, that must have triggered so many emotions all the way from fear at being so close to excitement at seeing them so close! ???
Being in a tin can when the thing you are afraid of is a giant crane with a tin opener attached doesn't seem to offer much reassurance!

Cheers, Graham.

Pygmy elephants in Northern Borneo. I wouldn't have liked to use shorter than 400mm for this shot.

I quite agree... But I was in a situation in South Africa (Addo Elephant Park) once where we stopped at a good distance of a large family of African Elephants when just 5 meters behind our rental VW Polo suddenly the rest of the family appeared out of the brushes... I was so busy looking for a way out that I didn't even consider taking pictures when this group walked past our tin can - two feet between me and the passing elephant...
Luckily they were friendly and not agitated - not really interested in us - and I made sure I did not arouse them in any way

... and these African ones are BIG (picture taken earlier )

 

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Very nice shot, Wiebe.

 

[Jack Douglas]

Very nice shot, Wiebe.

+1 Don't have to worry about getting a low vantage point; they tower above you!

Jack

 

[canon1dxman]

Hi canon1dxman.
Nice shot, are these captive fed (just arrived at their feed?) or wild beasts?

Cheers, Graham.

Traffic jam in the woods

Thanks guys. These are wild in Windsor Great Park, UK. There are around 500 of them in a massive area and you can hear the Stags from miles away when rutting season starts.

 

[Valvebounce]

Hi canon1dxman.
Thanks for that explanation, sounds like a fantastic place to visit with a good opportunity for seeing these fine beasts.

Cheers, Graham.

Hi canon1dxman.
Nice shot, are these captive fed (just arrived at their feed?) or wild beasts?

Cheers, Graham.

Traffic jam in the woods

Thanks guys. These are wild in Windsor Great Park, UK. There are around 500 of them in a massive area and you can hear the Stags from miles away when rutting season starts.

 

[Nat_WA]

Very nice shot, Wiebe.

+1 Don't have to worry about getting a low vantage point; they tower above you!

Jack

Where a low vantage point may not be hard to achieve with elephants, you'd need scuba gear and water tight camera enclosure to get this one from below

Gray Seal surfacing (may also be a Harbour Seal... I'm no expert)
The speed of these animals in the water is exceptional - even with a 7DmkII I got only 2 shots where it was surfacing, with only this one head out of the water...

Wiebe.

PS for Jack Douglas -- this one is slightly bigger - will it open in a separate window automatically now?

 

[Jack Douglas]

@ Wiebe Lovely.

Yes there seems to be a size threshold around 2k but now it doesn't matter (although one click is still handy)

Jack

 

[clbayley]

That time of year when the hares are showing signs of white...

Sorry about the chain link fence, terrible background. If only AA filters could hide them.

 

[Jack Douglas]

CL, cute. One sleeps under my daughters picnic chair in Edmonton but I never have the camera.

Jack

 

[Valvebounce]

Hi clbayley.
Very good, the chain link fence can't be helped, it was there and so was the hare.

Cheers, Graham.

That time of year when the hares are showing signs of white...

Sorry about the chain link fence, terrible background. If only AA filters could hide them.