Snapping Turtles

Camon Crow

I learned a lesson yesterday, we, I am responsible for my actions and how they effect the subjects I am photographing. We have lived on a property that backs onto a river and in the three years we have been here I have seen one snapping turtle. I was delighted to see one, a big one near the shore, I hurried to get my camera and returned to start shooting. I soon saw it was not one but two turtles in the act of mating. I shot a sequence of shots http://www.pbase.com/camon/turtles&view=slideshow
In my zeal they became aware of me and seperated, one headed up stream and one down thus I interfered and it really disturbed me. Lesson learned

ShepsMom

Yikes!!! Stay away from them things .

Dick on Aruba

Nice find!

Thanks for sharing,

Dick.

Harryb

Interesting shots and a good lesson to learn too. We all must take care to get a shots while not getting our subjects to react to us.