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Posted by onlymark on Feb 26, 2010, 6:59pm

Posted by deyana on Feb 26, 2010, 7:01pm

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

Posted by onlymark 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.

Posted by deyana on Feb 26, 2010, 7:17pm

I'm impressed.

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

Posted by bixaorellana 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?

Posted by paristraveler 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!!

Posted by bixaorellana 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!

Posted by onlymark 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.

Posted by kerouac2 on Feb 27, 2010, 7:02pm

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

Posted by jazz 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?

Posted by kerouac2 on Mar 7, 2010, 7:12pm

Wildlife in Paris this afternoon.
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Posted by bixaorellana on Mar 7, 2010, 8:18pm

Wonderful photo, beautiful model.

Posted by deyana 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!

Posted by bixaorellana 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

Posted by imec on Apr 4, 2010, 5:39pm

Posted by bixaorellana 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?

Posted by imec 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).

Posted by bixaorellana 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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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemidactylus

Posted by rikita on Apr 8, 2010, 9:18pm

(from a zoo though)
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Posted by kerouac2 on Apr 8, 2010, 9:23pm

I love the lizard, Bixa, especially the color.

Posted by bixaorellana 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.

Posted by rikita 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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Posted by bixaorellana on Apr 10, 2010, 12:19am

Whoa ~~ truth IS stranger than fiction!

You really take great photos, Rikita

Posted by casimira 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!

Posted by deyana on Apr 10, 2010, 4:09pm

pigeons:

Posted by kerouac2 on Apr 10, 2010, 4:53pm

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

Posted by deyana on Apr 10, 2010, 4:56pm

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

Posted by kimby 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.

Posted by deyana 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.

Posted by rikita on Apr 10, 2010, 11:38pm

cool!


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