Looks like turtle For Lunch!

Trish323Trish323 Registered Users Posts: 908 Major grins
edited January 16, 2007 in Wildlife
A good friend of mine, Harry B, told me once, what you need to shoot wildlife effectively is usually 100mm longer than what you have....He is such a wise old coot.....:wink

I was shooting at Viera the other day and longest I had available was 340mm... I happened to notice about 5-8 gators lounging on the burms in a place I have never seen them before. Maybe the water was chilly.
On closer inspection I notice this baby gator looking like it was in an attack position...then I saw the poor turtle. I watched for at least 30 minutes and neither one of them moved. I was kind of happy, mostly because I didn't have powerful enough glass to capture the action, and also..I wanted to see the turtle live.

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Comments

  • SenecaSeneca Registered Users Posts: 1,661 Major grins
    edited January 15, 2007
    :(: Poor thing, he's going to be Turtle Soup!
  • jwearjwear Registered Users Posts: 8,013 Major grins
    edited January 15, 2007
    sometimes as in life a stand off is better than action :DI am glad the tutrle maybe saw another day
    Jeff W

    “PHOTOGRAPHY IS THE ‘JAZZ’ FOR THE EYES…”

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  • ManticoreManticore Registered Users Posts: 90 Big grins
    edited January 15, 2007
    There's a whole story in that one photograph. Nice capture!
    - Steve

    D300S, MB10, Nikon 18-70, Nikon 70-200 2.8 VR, Tamron 90mm macro, Tokina 11-16 2.8, SB800

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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited January 16, 2007
    Really nice capture Trish. The turtle is lucky that gators usually hunt at night and are lazy buggers during the day.
    Harry
    http://behret.smugmug.com/ NANPA member
    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!"
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