texascbx
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Some I took today
- Thread starter texascbx
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Another interesting and colourful set - thanks for sharing. Really like #3 of the vultures on the stump.
BBW
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Ricky, I always enjoy seeing the animal life that surrounds you. I am smitten, still, by that little calf standing in that field of gold. Beautiful.
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Love that calf mate! Looks about as old as my younguns! He yours?
Herman
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Nice set of pictures ricky, thanks. I too like shot #3 most, well captured.
Did you took all shots with your A33 plus zoom 18-218 lens ?
Did you took all shots with your A33 plus zoom 18-218 lens ?
texascbx
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Yes, I took them all with the A33 and 18-250 Tamron. I was out looking at our pond that was scraped out and made deeper a couple of weeks ago. The trees were dead so the dozer knocked them down. Then I noticed the black vultures sitting quietly on the knocked over tree not even fifty feet from me. So I crept closer to them. The pose of the two of them is just before they launched into the air and even though I thought I was ready to capture the launch, I missed it.
The baby longhorn is mine. She is a cute little thing. She will soon be like her mother.
The baby longhorn is mine. She is a cute little thing. She will soon be like her mother.
texascbx
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Interesting as their posture changes as I get closer. The last one I was about 25 feet away, very close.
BBW
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Yes, it looks as though they're getting ready to take off any second!
Great observations, Ricky. They feed my need for the country life. Where I live I'm sort of in place that is neither here nor there. It's not urban, though the town right next door has a real urban quality. I live in a town that came into being in the 1600's...so there are some beautiful historic buildings and churches...and still a few places that are preserved, though not many at all. We have the plus of being on the coast...but 99% of the coastline is privately owned. Fortunately there's a pretty big county owned nature preserve that abuts the Long Island Sound...but it's not like having farm land... We also have a town park that has sweeping lawns, old style Spanish roofed architecture...and a beach...but again, it's not the same as rural beauty.
Great observations, Ricky. They feed my need for the country life. Where I live I'm sort of in place that is neither here nor there. It's not urban, though the town right next door has a real urban quality. I live in a town that came into being in the 1600's...so there are some beautiful historic buildings and churches...and still a few places that are preserved, though not many at all. We have the plus of being on the coast...but 99% of the coastline is privately owned. Fortunately there's a pretty big county owned nature preserve that abuts the Long Island Sound...but it's not like having farm land... We also have a town park that has sweeping lawns, old style Spanish roofed architecture...and a beach...but again, it's not the same as rural beauty.
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Very Nice set.
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christilou
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Great pics, birds are really hard to capture!
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Ricky - do you shoot em (literally)
There was a programme on the BBC last night - apparently the domestic cats in the UK kill 54 million "garden birds" every year
Remember the UK is very small compared with the US - the UK is less than 100,000 square miles - just over one third the size of Texas - (a lot more people and gardens of course, in the UK)
Cheers
There was a programme on the BBC last night - apparently the domestic cats in the UK kill 54 million "garden birds" every year
Remember the UK is very small compared with the US - the UK is less than 100,000 square miles - just over one third the size of Texas - (a lot more people and gardens of course, in the UK)
Cheers
Armanius
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Yes, I took them all with the A33 and 18-250 Tamron. I was out looking at our pond that was scaped out and made deeper a couple of weeks ago. The trees were dead so the dozer knocked them down. Then I noticed the black vultures sitting quietly on the knocked over tree not even fifty feet from me. So I crept closer to them. The pose of the two of them is just before they launched into the air and even though I thought I was ready to capture the launch, I missed it.
The baby longhorn is mine. She is a cute little thing. She will soon be like her mother.
Hook'Em Horns!!!
texascbx
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Shooting architecture is fun too BBW.
Right now I am blown away by the tiny yellow wildflowers. They are so bright in the sunlight. They are simply beautiful this time of year.
I had the tank/pond in the back pasture cleaned out since it had silted in over the years and was only a couple of feet deep, the rest taken up by mud. Had the two dead trees dug up too and knocked down so I can burn them. Planted some bald cypress trees planted too. It looks pretty bad now and will for a while. I hated to knock the old dead trees down since so many birds like to land on the them, but they were dead and I did not want the branches falling off and killing one of my cows.
Right now I am blown away by the tiny yellow wildflowers. They are so bright in the sunlight. They are simply beautiful this time of year.
I had the tank/pond in the back pasture cleaned out since it had silted in over the years and was only a couple of feet deep, the rest taken up by mud. Had the two dead trees dug up too and knocked down so I can burn them. Planted some bald cypress trees planted too. It looks pretty bad now and will for a while. I hated to knock the old dead trees down since so many birds like to land on the them, but they were dead and I did not want the branches falling off and killing one of my cows.
