Don't Look at me Like You Think I'm Dinner

IcebearIcebear Registered Users Posts: 4,015 Major grins
edited March 30, 2011 in Wildlife
A carnivore is a carnivore is a carnivore. I don't care if s/he IS at the National zoo. These are some seriously intent looking felines/canids. Bokeh courtesy of Nikkor 400mm f2.8.

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John :
Natural selection is responsible for every living thing that exists.
D3s, D500, D5300, and way more glass than the wife knows about.

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  • MaestroMaestro Registered Users Posts: 5,395 Major grins
    edited March 28, 2011
    Zoo or not..spectacular portraits! thumb.gif
    Stephen
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  • Jack'll doJack'll do Registered Users Posts: 2,977 Major grins
    edited March 28, 2011
    They are all wonderful but the lion exudes such a sense of age, wisdom, and majesty that I can't stop looking at him. clap.gifclap (Maybe it's because I was born in August) headscratch.gif
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    Jack
    (My real name is John but Jack'll do)
  • IcebearIcebear Registered Users Posts: 4,015 Major grins
    edited March 28, 2011
    Jack'll do wrote: »
    They are all wonderful but the lion exudes such a sense of age, wisdom, and majesty that I can't stop looking at him. clap.gifclap (Maybe it's because I was born in August) headscratch.gif
    Yeah, he was quite regal. Now you've got me interested. I'll bet I can find out how old he is from the zoo.
    Oh, and thank you!
    John :
    Natural selection is responsible for every living thing that exists.
    D3s, D500, D5300, and way more glass than the wife knows about.
  • IcebearIcebear Registered Users Posts: 4,015 Major grins
    edited March 28, 2011
    Thanks for your kind notice Stephen.
    John :
    Natural selection is responsible for every living thing that exists.
    D3s, D500, D5300, and way more glass than the wife knows about.
  • IcebearIcebear Registered Users Posts: 4,015 Major grins
    edited March 28, 2011
    Jack'll do wrote: »
    They are all wonderful but the lion exudes such a sense of age, wisdom, and majesty that I can't stop looking at him.

    Then you'll probably like this shot, which I feel really captured the magnificent elder statesman.

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    John :
    Natural selection is responsible for every living thing that exists.
    D3s, D500, D5300, and way more glass than the wife knows about.
  • kdogkdog Administrators Posts: 11,681 moderator
    edited March 29, 2011
    Nice snaps. I like the cheetah shot the best. That's a lot of equipment for a zoo shoot, you must have gotten some looks. I noticed you used two different camera bodies, one FF and one crop. Was that so you could use two different focal lengths?
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  • IcebearIcebear Registered Users Posts: 4,015 Major grins
    edited March 29, 2011
    kdog wrote: »
    Nice snaps. I like the cheetah shot the best. That's a lot of equipment for a zoo shoot, you must have gotten some looks. I noticed you used two different camera bodies, one FF and one crop. Was that so you could use two different focal lengths?

    The cheetah is my favorite too. Gosh they're beautiful animals.

    Yeah, I felt a bit like a middle aged guy in a Corvette. You know . . . like he's compensating for some inadequacy in some other "part" of his life. Actually though, there were a couple folks there with bazooka lenses (Canons covered with camo-lenscoats) mounted on huge tripods with Wemberly gimbals. I felt "inadequate" with my piss-ant monopod. I looked around, but didn't see the burros they musta used to get that stuff there.

    You hit the nail on the head. I use my D300 like a teleconverter.
    John :
    Natural selection is responsible for every living thing that exists.
    D3s, D500, D5300, and way more glass than the wife knows about.
  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited March 29, 2011
    Those are a set of marvelous pictures John. thumb.gif

    Glad that you were just toting the 400 2.8 and not bazookas like those Canon shooters. :D
    Harry
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    How many photographers does it take to change a light bulb? 50. One to change the bulb, and forty-nine to say, "I could have done that better!"
  • IcebearIcebear Registered Users Posts: 4,015 Major grins
    edited March 29, 2011
    Thanks Harry.
    John :
    Natural selection is responsible for every living thing that exists.
    D3s, D500, D5300, and way more glass than the wife knows about.
  • Secluded ValleySecluded Valley Registered Users Posts: 176 Major grins
    edited March 30, 2011
    Wonderful shots, John. I love the lion shots.

    Kristine
    "How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!" ~John Muir
  • IcebearIcebear Registered Users Posts: 4,015 Major grins
    edited March 30, 2011
    Yellowstonegirl wrote: »
    Wonderful shots, John. I love the lion shots.

    Kristine
    Thank you Kristine! I have a suggestion for you. Get rid of the "when I grow up" phrase on your "about me" page. Your photography has a maturity that will allow it to speak for itself.thumb.gif
    John :
    Natural selection is responsible for every living thing that exists.
    D3s, D500, D5300, and way more glass than the wife knows about.
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