Thanks to all who commented, and I do have to acknowledge I mis-identified the animal! It is, in fact, and as Dave Savage suggested, a (very) large possum just pretending to be a wallaby! As advised by a friend who knows more about Aussie flora and fauna than anyone else I know....
Actually missed a quite good photo-op yesterday - leaving my stepson's house, via his very steep and curving driveway, a carpet snake had stretched itself all the way across the concrete track, so it must have been at least five feet long. Couldn't get the camera out from the boot, as the car would have sailed slowly but inevitably down the hill and crushed itself against the next tree and the snake on the way down. Anyway, after a couple of minutes it decided to head off into the long grass, so all ended well. John Coyle Brisbane, Australia ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rebekah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, October 01, 2007 12:45 AM Subject: Re: PESO - an unusual visitor > That thing is adorable - I bet they're a nuisance tho. Nice grab! > > rg2 > > On 9/30/07, Paul Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Cool. I worked in Queensland farm country for three weeks and never >> saw one. I was bummed:-). >> Paul >> On Sep 29, 2007, at 11:21 PM, John Coyle wrote: >> >> > 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. >> > >> > >> > John Coyle >> > Brisbane, Australia >> > >> > -- >> > 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. >> >> >> -- >> 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. >> > > > -- > "the subject of a photograph is far less important than its composition" > > -- > 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. -- 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.
