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Re: Photos of Wild Life
« Reply #60 on Feb 26, 2010, 6:59pm »

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Re: Photos of Wild Life
« Reply #61 on Feb 26, 2010, 7:01pm »

Mark, those are just lovely! Did you take them yourself? When did you do this?

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« Reply #62 on Feb 26, 2010, 7:13pm »

Yes, they are my photos, taken over the years. Can't say exactly when but sometime in the last fifteen years or so. They're just random ones I've got handy.
The elephants are in India, the lions are in the Serengeti in Kenya, the camel was in Iran, the very cool looking antelope was in Lake Nukuru National Park again in Kenya, the baboons were just outside a camp also in Kenya.

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Re: Photos of Wild Life
« Reply #63 on Feb 26, 2010, 7:17pm »

I'm impressed.

You've certainly been around and seen some amazing things. Lucky you.

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Re: Photos of Wild Life
« Reply #64 on Feb 27, 2010, 1:45am »

Wild, man, wild!

Since turn-about is fair play

, I'm directing everyone to more of Kimby's beasties here

Mark, how close were you for some of those pictures? They're all wonderful, but I adore the elephants. Yes, the antelope is immensely cool, too, and the way the camel has his neck extended really makes for a great photo. That lion knew you were there! The baboons seem awfully close to civilization. Is that common?

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« Reply #65 on Feb 27, 2010, 3:48pm »

I took this at the San Diego Wild Animal Park in April, 2005. Ain't he cool?

And, no, I haven't learned to resize my photos yet! Please don't beat me to death with a wet noodle!!

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« Reply #66 on Feb 27, 2010, 4:00pm »

Great picture, Paris. Giraffes always seem so curious, coming right over to where humans are and peering down at them. They're so tall, though, that it's hard to catch them at it. You really caught the interest in the giraffe's face -- what an angle!

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« Reply #67 on Feb 27, 2010, 6:52pm »

Bixa - the antelope for example was directly at the side of the track. It could've easily reached in. The baboons are notorious for invading habitated areas to steal food.

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Re: Photos of Wild Life
« Reply #68 on Feb 27, 2010, 7:02pm »

Oh, I must dig up my Kenya safari photos some day.

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Re: Photos of Wild Life
« Reply #69 on Feb 28, 2010, 3:57pm »

These are great Mark. The antelope is very cool, he is positively regal. Is that a snack station just for the giraffe or is she sneaking a nibble from your food?

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Re: Photos of Wild Life
« Reply #70 on Mar 7, 2010, 7:12pm »

Wildlife in Paris this afternoon.
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Re: Photos of Wild Life
« Reply #71 on Mar 7, 2010, 8:18pm »

Wonderful photo, beautiful model.

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Re: Photos of Wild Life
« Reply #72 on Mar 7, 2010, 10:45pm »

ParisT, a well taken picture there.

Kerouac, that one looks like a professional shot! Are you sure that bird is real? I always have trouble taking pictures of birds, they just won't pose properly!

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Re: Photos of Wild Life
« Reply #73 on Mar 15, 2010, 6:29am »

Feb 21, 2010, 6:34pm, spindrift wrote:

Poor turkeys... they can't help being turkeys. ::)

please see Imec's post #55 on the previous page

Turkeys

Sometimes we saw shadows of gods
in the trees; silenced, we went on.
Sometimes the dog would bound off
over the snow, into the forest.
Sometimes a tree had twenty
or more black turkeys in it, each
seeming the size of a small black bear.
We remember them for their care
for their kind ever since we watched the big hen
in the very top of the tree shaking
load after load of apples down to the flock.
Sometimes I felt I would never
come out of the woods, I thought
its deeper darkness might absorb me
or feed me to the black turkeys
and I would cry out for the dog
and the dog would not answer.

-- Galway Kinnell
pub. in The New Yorker, Jan 18, 2010

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Re: Photos of Wild Life
« Reply #74 on Apr 4, 2010, 5:39pm »

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Re: Photos of Wild Life
« Reply #75 on Apr 4, 2010, 5:49pm »

Those birds should pay you for the excellent portraits!

Imec, is the ice in the background from the breakup on the Red River?

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Re: Photos of Wild Life
« Reply #76 on Apr 4, 2010, 5:52pm »

Apr 4, 2010, 5:49pm, bixaorellana wrote:

Those birds should pay you for the excellent portraits!

Imec, is the ice in the background from the breakup on the Red River?

Thanks bixa! Yes the pics were taken the same day I did the pics and vids of the ice breaking up (March 27 I think).

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Re: Photos of Wild Life
« Reply #77 on Apr 8, 2010, 6:08am »

These were taken a few minutes ago of the little visitor who must have come in through the open window next to my computer table.
In the first one he is right next to the window, where I first noticed him. In the second and third he's up by the picture frame on the wall over the computer.
In the fourth one I thought he was posing for me, but it turned out the stance was preparatory to jumping onto the monitor, then disappearing underneath it.
He emerged again & was on the corner of the table contemplating the window, but I stupidly tried for another photo and now he's skulking behind the speaker, on top of the electrical extension bar.

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Re: Photos of Wild Life
« Reply #78 on Apr 8, 2010, 9:18pm »

(from a zoo though)
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Re: Photos of Wild Life
« Reply #79 on Apr 8, 2010, 9:23pm »

I love the lizard, Bixa, especially the color.

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Re: Photos of Wild Life
« Reply #80 on Apr 9, 2010, 3:14am »

Thanks, Kerouac. Those pictures were taken in very low light, with the flash. When you see geckos in good light, you can see their organs right through their skin -- even their little hearts beating. The little guy in the pictures was only @4 inches from nose to tip of tail.

Rikita, that bear is so beautiful. The picture is a wonderful noitcelfer, as well.

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Re: Photos of Wild Life
« Reply #81 on Apr 9, 2010, 9:21pm »

ah true, i hadn't even realized that... i mean, i realized there is a reflection there, but i didn't think of the picture when i posted in the reflections thread...

here is another one from the same visit to the zoo (i don't usually go there but we went there last summer once with a friend)
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Re: Photos of Wild Life
« Reply #82 on Apr 10, 2010, 12:19am »

Whoa ~~ truth IS stranger than fiction!

You really take great photos, Rikita

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Re: Photos of Wild Life
« Reply #83 on Apr 10, 2010, 3:53pm »

Such a nice run of great photos in this last stretch here that I haven't seen in a bit...
The geese are beautiful imec,somehow look more graceful in your photos than I remember them being,having seen so, so many in NY.
Bixa,the gecko shots are amazing,as you well know, we have them skulking about here and they are so quick to scurry! I once saw an albino gecko,was strange,strange.
We have a "new" invader breed of small anole like lizard here,arrived after Katrina,has become a nuisance and is threatening the others.I will see if I can get a shot of one,also very quick.
Rikita,your shots are fabulous,love,love the bird!

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Re: Photos of Wild Life
« Reply #84 on Apr 10, 2010, 4:09pm »

pigeons:

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Re: Photos of Wild Life
« Reply #85 on Apr 10, 2010, 4:53pm »

Errr... do you have a zoom lens on your camera?

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Re: Photos of Wild Life
« Reply #86 on Apr 10, 2010, 4:56pm »

Um...yes, I'm trying to get the hang of it.

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Re: Photos of Wild Life
« Reply #87 on Apr 10, 2010, 9:41pm »

There's a huge colony of "flying foxes" living in the Botanic Garden in Sydney. At sunset they fly over the city, but they hang out (literally) in the trees of the botanic garden all day. There is a plan to discourage them from roosting there because of the damage that is caused to the collection.

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Re: Photos of Wild Life
« Reply #88 on Apr 10, 2010, 10:46pm »

What an amazing photo, Kimby. These bats are called 'flying foxes'? Or is that just a nick name?

Reminds me of the bats I saw hanging off the side of walls late at night, when I was in India.

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Re: Photos of Wild Life
« Reply #89 on Apr 10, 2010, 11:38pm »

cool!

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