- Location
- Beaumaris, Melbourne, Australia
- Name
- John ...
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Cameraderie, a friendly photography forum, join now for free!
- Location
- SF Bay Area
Thank you, John. She comes over for a snack at about 4PM every dayJust gorgeous, Norm.
And a warmto this friendly forum.
- Location
- SF Bay Area
I miss spy vs. spy pages in MAD magazine.
- Location
- Northern MN
- Name
- John
- Location
- SF Bay Area
What I am finding is these animals are far smarter both in problem solving and instinctual attributes than articles we read about them would suggest.
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK.
- Name
- Charles
I agree with you Norm, and I think this is true of many other animals, dogs in particular. Welcome to the forum.
will focus
Hall of Famer
- Location
- Traverse City, Michigan, USA
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This squirrel with a little patch of white behind it's ear drops in everyday. There are about three squirrels out of the regular dozen or so regular visitors that have white markings somewhere on their bodies. I'm assuming they are either probably related, or it's some kind of squirrel gang tattoo.
CatsAreGods
Banished?
- Location
- Purgatory
L0n3Gr3yW0lf
Hall of Famer
- Location
- Somerset, UK
- Name
- Ovi
I had one of the most interesting encounters one hour ago:
On my way home from work, I passed a T intersection and to my right side, I saw something skinny and tall-ish that looked like a Doberman running towards me (about 10 meters away) for a split second. Then I realised it was actually a Roe Deer and not one but two (I'm not sure if they are male AND female, the 2nd one split before I could react and the picture above is the only frame I had that showed the 2ns one).
It was pouring rain at this point (from a drizzle when I got out from work less than 5 minutes earlier) and even though I had my camera in my goodie front pocket (I LOVE THE ABILITY TO DO THAT) I wasn't sure if I should take it out ... alas I though in about a second why the hell not, I've got nothing left to lose anymore and I start shooting. I LOVE that the deer was sitting right in the middle of the road and next to a bright street lamp, it illuminated the rain perfectly.
"Mister, do you have an umbrella? It's getting a bit wet here."
The deer decided to move perfectly in the middle of the street and stay there for a couple of minutes while I was struggling to get a good shot, the AF-S and AF-C were missing every shot so I had to turn to Manual Focus (which I haven't had to do on my Sony system, like EVER). Luckily I had Electronic Shutter on from earlier today so no risk of being too noisy. It was quite dark but the reason I turned down the shutter speed from 1/60 sec to 1/20 is that I wanted a bit of motion blur on the rain itself, and the reason why I haven't passed any of the images through Topaz DeNoise AI, I was worried the noise reduction would smear the raindrop trails too much.
I was quite frenetically trying to get a few sharp and in-focus shots before the deer ran off (luckily it didn't and I have up first) and before the camera and the lens would get overwhelmed by the rain (which the first sign of trouble is that the hotshoe was complaining from the rain getting in there even though I had a silicon cover in the hotshoe. I also knew that the Sony FE 85mm f 1.8 is not a weather-sealed lens despite what Sony's marketing might have you believe. (I left about 2 minutes in and 29 shots later, Single shots and not Burst). This was the 2nd time in my life that I have seen proper wildlife dear (not the Hello Humans friendly deer that live around London) came into the streets of the town, the first time it happened was during the pandemic when there was no sign, sight or sound of people in the town in over 6 months, but I didn't get to take out my camera fast enough to get a picture back then.
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On my way home from work, I passed a T intersection and to my right side, I saw something skinny and tall-ish that looked like a Doberman running towards me (about 10 meters away) for a split second. Then I realised it was actually a Roe Deer and not one but two (I'm not sure if they are male AND female, the 2nd one split before I could react and the picture above is the only frame I had that showed the 2ns one).
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It was pouring rain at this point (from a drizzle when I got out from work less than 5 minutes earlier) and even though I had my camera in my goodie front pocket (I LOVE THE ABILITY TO DO THAT) I wasn't sure if I should take it out ... alas I though in about a second why the hell not, I've got nothing left to lose anymore and I start shooting. I LOVE that the deer was sitting right in the middle of the road and next to a bright street lamp, it illuminated the rain perfectly.
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"Mister, do you have an umbrella? It's getting a bit wet here."
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The deer decided to move perfectly in the middle of the street and stay there for a couple of minutes while I was struggling to get a good shot, the AF-S and AF-C were missing every shot so I had to turn to Manual Focus (which I haven't had to do on my Sony system, like EVER). Luckily I had Electronic Shutter on from earlier today so no risk of being too noisy. It was quite dark but the reason I turned down the shutter speed from 1/60 sec to 1/20 is that I wanted a bit of motion blur on the rain itself, and the reason why I haven't passed any of the images through Topaz DeNoise AI, I was worried the noise reduction would smear the raindrop trails too much.
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I was quite frenetically trying to get a few sharp and in-focus shots before the deer ran off (luckily it didn't and I have up first) and before the camera and the lens would get overwhelmed by the rain (which the first sign of trouble is that the hotshoe was complaining from the rain getting in there even though I had a silicon cover in the hotshoe. I also knew that the Sony FE 85mm f 1.8 is not a weather-sealed lens despite what Sony's marketing might have you believe. (I left about 2 minutes in and 29 shots later, Single shots and not Burst). This was the 2nd time in my life that I have seen proper wildlife dear (not the Hello Humans friendly deer that live around London) came into the streets of the town, the first time it happened was during the pandemic when there was no sign, sight or sound of people in the town in over 6 months, but I didn't get to take out my camera fast enough to get a picture back then.
sasquatchphotog
Regular
- Location
- Derbyshire, UK
- Name
- Rich
Went on a walk on Bleaklow in Derbyshire on Saturday to see/photograph the B29 crash site (Bleaklow Bomber - Wikipedia) - but this was my favourite image of the day.
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will focus
Hall of Famer
- Location
- Traverse City, Michigan, USA
Wow, did you notice all the other crashes in your link attributed to the hillside in low clouds in that area? I surprised the hillside is still there!
sasquatchphotog
Regular
- Location
- Derbyshire, UK
- Name
- Rich
Oh crikey, I hadn't read as far as that - that's 8 planes that have crashed on Bleaklow! Thankfully the last one was in the 50s.
- Location
- Derby, United Kingdom
- Name
- Martin
Check out this link: Peak District – Peak District Air Accident Research 173 crashes in the Peak District.
- Location
- Derby, United Kingdom
- Name
- Martin
L0n3Gr3yW0lf
Hall of Famer
- Location
- Somerset, UK
- Name
- Ovi
- Location
- Whidbey Island
- Name
- Lyle
will focus
Hall of Famer
- Location
- Traverse City, Michigan, USA
I had a pet snail once. The people at the pet store told me he was from Spain. I named him Escar. I came home from school one day and he wasn't in his tank. I remember asking my mother, "Where did Escar go?"
( who didn't see that coming?)
