Another amazing shot! Thanks for the clarification wrt the legs. I doubt he'd survive long were they cut off where they seem to be in the first photo. I imagine he wouldn't be able to capture and eat prey without full use of those front appendages.
Cheers, frank "What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof." -- Christopher Hitchens --- Original Message --- From: John Sessoms <[email protected]> Sent: August 15, 2012 8/15/12 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: PESO: Critter He just has them folded under and they're kind of hidden from the angle I was photographing him. When he got tired of me poking the lens in his face he hopped down from the rose bush and tried to escape by climbing a maple tree. Once he got up about tripod level I was able to get a couple more good shots. Here's the other one I liked: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jb_sessoms/7792517030/lightbox/ K20D, A* 100 f/2.8 macro @ f/5.6, 1/50 You can see the front legs are intact. From: Jack Davis > Did the mower possibly cut off part its two front legs? They?appear to be > somewhat incomplete. > > > Jack Davis________________________________ > http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/artists/jackdavis > http://www.photolightimages.com/ > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: John Sessoms <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Cc: > Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 1:42 PM > Subject: PESO: Critter > > I have been so uninspired I haven't even felt like picking my camera > up for several months. I think the last photos I took were at GFM > Nature Photography Weekend. > > Yesterday while I was cutting the grass, this little fellow got > dumped out when I was emptying the catcher bag. I kind of scooped him > up and dropped him on my rose bush so he would be out of the way. He > was still hanging on the rose bush when I finished my yard work, so I > went and got my camera & put my A* 100 f/2.8 macro on it. > > I took about 50 frames before he got irritated and left. This is one > of the two I'm relatively happy with: > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/jb_sessoms/7790647954/lightbox/ > > K20D, A*100 f/2.8 macro @ f/8 and I'm not going to walk back into the > other room just to see what the shutter speed was. > > When I was prepping it in Bridge, I noticed I've got a hot pixel that > causes a sharp line to appear across the frame. I tried to clone it > out, but I can see I need to go back and work on it again in some > places. -- 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.
