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I haven't been able to shoot as much as I would like lately. I got up this morning and the light was really good so I packed my gear, hopped into my car and drove down to the wetlands. We have had rain fairly frequently and I wasn't sure if the place would be open but when I got there the entrance was clear and I was a happy man. As I approached the entrance a car pulled up and man got out. Then this SOB put the chain across the entrance with a sign saying "closed to vehicles". :bash
I'm sitting in my car with 4 cameras, the 500mm f/4, the 200-400 f4, the 70-200, the 300mm f/4, 3 teleconverters, my tripod with a Wimberly head, a monopod, my bean bags, and a partridge in a pear tree. I really wanted to shoot and I was feeling spunky so I threw the 300 with the 1.7 TC on my D3s and decided to hike through the wetlands. I hate hiking in Florida during August. :whew
the shooting was OK. I couldn't get as close to my subjects on foot as I could in a car but I got some BIFs that I would have missed if I had been driving. As I was making the last leg of the trip I saw a red shouldered hawk. As I moved in on it the hawk being an evil bird flew off on me. As I tracked its flight I saw a deer butt to my left. It was a young deer that was out in the open.
Usually deer are shy but since there were no cars going through and I was the only human in the place it apparently was not afraid to come into the open. When it saw me it went behind these bushes to it left. I decided to try a slow approach and after 20 minutes I was a few yards from its hiding spot. It saw me and poked its head out to get me a looking over.
After 15 minutes or so it probably thought "fat old man, bad knee, no threat" and started to come out and resumed its grazing.
I had been too successful in my approach and could not get its whole body in the frame.
I had thought that the deer would have moved away from me after coming out from behind the bushes but it was happy where it was. After a half hour or so my legs were covered with mosquitoes so I carefully got up and moved away and tried to get more of its body in frame.
All in all it was a good morning.
I haven't been able to shoot as much as I would like lately. I got up this morning and the light was really good so I packed my gear, hopped into my car and drove down to the wetlands. We have had rain fairly frequently and I wasn't sure if the place would be open but when I got there the entrance was clear and I was a happy man. As I approached the entrance a car pulled up and man got out. Then this SOB put the chain across the entrance with a sign saying "closed to vehicles". :bash
I'm sitting in my car with 4 cameras, the 500mm f/4, the 200-400 f4, the 70-200, the 300mm f/4, 3 teleconverters, my tripod with a Wimberly head, a monopod, my bean bags, and a partridge in a pear tree. I really wanted to shoot and I was feeling spunky so I threw the 300 with the 1.7 TC on my D3s and decided to hike through the wetlands. I hate hiking in Florida during August. :whew
the shooting was OK. I couldn't get as close to my subjects on foot as I could in a car but I got some BIFs that I would have missed if I had been driving. As I was making the last leg of the trip I saw a red shouldered hawk. As I moved in on it the hawk being an evil bird flew off on me. As I tracked its flight I saw a deer butt to my left. It was a young deer that was out in the open.
Usually deer are shy but since there were no cars going through and I was the only human in the place it apparently was not afraid to come into the open. When it saw me it went behind these bushes to it left. I decided to try a slow approach and after 20 minutes I was a few yards from its hiding spot. It saw me and poked its head out to get me a looking over.
After 15 minutes or so it probably thought "fat old man, bad knee, no threat" and started to come out and resumed its grazing.
I had been too successful in my approach and could not get its whole body in the frame.
I had thought that the deer would have moved away from me after coming out from behind the bushes but it was happy where it was. After a half hour or so my legs were covered with mosquitoes so I carefully got up and moved away and tried to get more of its body in frame.
All in all it was a good morning.
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!"
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I have deer coming through my backyard often, and to my wife's chagrin as they tend to nimble on her daylilies. I don't recall ever seeing whiskers on a deer before - very cool.
Great shots.
Phil
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Phil
Thanks for sharing!
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Thanks Phil, I can sympathize with your wife. I have various wildlife munching on my landscaping also.
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Glad you enjoyed it Denise.
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:nah cabs down here aren't metered
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Thanks Joel, I was kicking my self for leaving Beach Rolly home.
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Thanks Pam, I'm lucky with mosquitoes because they don't bite me. I have never been bitten by a mosquito. Once Linda went to the wetlands with me. It was in July and the mosquitoes were incredibly thick. I got out of the car to get a shot and walked into a cloud of mosquitoes. When I got back into the car I didn't have one bite but Linda who stayed n the car was bitten three times.
Thanks for the kind words.
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I know but most drivers now how to pass thru locked borders
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I'm sure I musta of missed something ??
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Harry, I am happy for you, but that is SO UNFAIR! I'm like Linda, it seems. Walking next to me through a cloud of mosquitoes is better than being drenched in OFF. I attract all of them! Bes, Pam
Up here in Pennsylvania these things are like your rodents - squirrels! They are everywhere and mostly hunted with late model Buicks!
Nice shots, but I have a herd in my backyard that I regularly chase from the birdfeeder.......
Z
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"it probably thought "fat old man, bad knee, no threat" and started to come out and resumed its grazing."
I Was No where near there
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Hell I don't need a cabbie to get through a locked border. I can do that myself.
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You missed my second tripod, my flash unit, filters, my viewing loupe, cleaning cloths, water, and the 70-200. I also forgot to mention my 14-24 and the 28-70 (for when the landscape mood strikes).
I promised my son that when I die he will inherit 2 bucks if he's lucky and I intend to keep that promise.
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What a fantastic set of photos Harry. Well done. Wow! you have some gear there that would cost an absolute fortune over here.
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Bob
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Every once in awhile I take a picture of some non-feathered object. I don't even make Linda wear feathers anymore when she wants me to take her picture.
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I have heard of towns up North that were just about over run by deer. Down here I'm constantly chasing rabbits, racoons, armadillos, and squirrels off my property.
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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!"
Thanks Leilani, we have quite a few deer in this area. They are airly regular visitors to the wetlands. They usually are fairly shy though and its hard to get close enough for a good capture.
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Thanks, you may not have been there but I was so fat old men were well represented.
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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!"
Thanks Graham, what it shows depends on your exif reader. They all read the 300mm and 1.7 TC as 500mm, the f4 comes fror the lens being a 300mm f/4 lens. The actual settings were f/7.1 with an ev adjustment of -0.67 (aka 2/3rds of a stop). The max of 6.7 is the widest aperture setting of an f4 lens with a 1.7 TC attached.
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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!"
Boy...oh, boy will I ever keep my mouth shut on that one!!!