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Gator says "Come and take it!"
Jan 10, 2014 16:45:40 #
The gar was naive enough to swim by the gator's mouth. I certainly wasn't going to challenge him for it.
Jan 10, 2014 19:06:05 #
Very cool shot. Have yet to shoot my first gator up close and personal. ;-)
Jan 10, 2014 19:20:53 #
Photog8 wrote:
Very cool shot. Have yet to shoot my first gator up close and personal. ;-)
Think about something longer than your 55-200mm so you don't need to get too close. My walk around lens is a 400mm on an APS-C body so "close" is 13 to 15 feet. Just don't get too comfortable when you are close and keep your head on a swivel. My avatar photo was taken at about 13 to 15 feet from that gator, too. I caught a clear shot of a mosquito biting that gator in it's mouth in another shot in that series.
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Jan 10, 2014 22:32:50 #
Jan 10, 2014 22:34:49 #
Dave_TX wrote:
The gar was naive enough to swim by the gator's mouth. I certainly wasn't going to challenge him for it.
Love it! Very good capture.
Jan 11, 2014 07:35:59 #
Jan 11, 2014 07:43:16 #
Dave_TX wrote:
The gar was naive enough to swim by the gator's mouth. I certainly wasn't going to challenge him for it.
What an animal!
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Jan 11, 2014 09:04:53 #
Photog8 wrote:
Very cool shot. Have yet to shoot my first gator up close and personal. ;-)
I was visiting a friend of my wife in Naples, FL and she had been on an 'air-boat' excursion and she said the operator had spots where he fed the gators so they saw a lot of them. I'm going to check it out.
Sarge69
Jan 11, 2014 09:22:50 #
One reptile, eating another. Seems like they would have advanced some, over these millions of years.
Jan 11, 2014 09:26:48 #
Michael Hartley wrote:
One reptile, eating another. Seems like they would have advanced some, over these millions of years.
High on the prey list for big gators are smaller gators. It's a gator eat gator world out there.
Jan 11, 2014 10:05:34 #
Dave_TX wrote:
Think about something longer than your 55-200mm so you don't need to get too close. My walk around lens is a 400mm on an APS-C body so "close" is 13 to 15 feet. Just don't get too comfortable when you are close and keep your head on a swivel. My avatar photo was taken at about 13 to 15 feet from that gator, too. I caught a clear shot of a mosquito biting that gator in it's mouth in another shot in that series.
I've seen how fast a gator can move, if that's in the wild and that gator wanted you, he'd have you. 13 to 15 feet is being a bit careless.
Jan 11, 2014 12:48:55 #
Dave_TX wrote:
High on the prey list for big gators are smaller gators. It's a gator eat gator world out there.
Yes, it is. I caught one on a rod, and reel one time. They put up a hell of a fight.
Jan 11, 2014 18:24:12 #
Jan 11, 2014 19:16:20 #
Dave_TX wrote:
The gar was naive enough to swim by the gator's mouth. I certainly wasn't going to challenge him for it.
:thumbup: :thumbup:
Jan 11, 2014 20:04:46 #
Frank W wrote:
I've seen how fast a gator can move, if that's in the wild and that gator wanted you, he'd have you. 13 to 15 feet is being a bit careless.
That gator had his private fishing hole that he was enjoying and was down a steep bank from where I was standing. If, on the other hand, the park was full of crocodiles it would not be possible to walk around and shoot photos.
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