On 9/30/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In a message dated 9/29/2007 8:30:47 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > No, we don't normally have kangaroos in the city streets in Australia, but > this was taken in our > garden just 300 meters from the city centre last night! > > http://tinyurl.com/24wnnd > > I decided to grab the nearest camera and lens, which happened to be the > *ist-D fitted with the > DA16-45, and shot with the RTF - which was also useful for spotting the > animal in the dark when > it was in it's focus-assist role! > > I cropped the shot to about 1/3rd it's original size, as the lens was really > too wide - and the > animal was too nervous to get any closer. It fled before the second flash, > which resulted in a > nice picture of the path, plants and a tree-trunk, but no wallaby! > > Comments welcome. > > =========== > Interesting. Somehow I thought Kangeroos were larger.
Kangaroos are (some species are bigger than others), wallabies though are a bit smaller. My cousin has a house that boarders a national park, and they quite often get roos in their backyard grazing on the lawn & eating the roses :-) Cool shot John. (although if you hadn't said it was a wallabie, I would have assumed it was a big possum :-) Cheers, Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
