Come a little closer
Feb 16, 2012 13:36:29 #
The eyes just seem to say come just a foot more and I will have you! ( F 5.7 1/250 sec 530mm)
Feb 17, 2012 07:38:43 #
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Feb 17, 2012 09:03:13 #
kayautho
Loc: Boynton Beach, FL
The alligator in the 2nd shot does not look undernourished. Is that a spare tire around its middle?
Feb 17, 2012 09:07:40 #
kayautho wrote:
The alligator in the 2nd shot does not look undernourished. Is that a spare tire around its middle?
I think it was a poodle.
Feb 17, 2012 09:46:48 #
Just so the people up north know, these gator shots are of wild alligators and there are no fences seperating us.
Just wondering how long a lense did you use on the 2nd gator?
Just wondering how long a lense did you use on the 2nd gator?
Feb 17, 2012 10:00:47 #
Old Tom wrote:
Just so the people up north know, these gator shots are of wild alligators and there are no fences seperating us.
Just wondering how long a lense did you use on the 2nd gator?
Just wondering how long a lense did you use on the 2nd gator?
OT, it was a 400mm. By rough calculations I think I was about 12 feet away from the animal who was in the range of six to seven feet. It was a cool day -- low sixties -- and it looked, as a previous post noted, well fed.
I spend a lot of time in Everglades National Park-Big Cypress National Preserve (where this was taken on the Fakahatchee Strand) canoeing and camping and tramping. I don't think I am complacent or careless, but it was only after I got this picture up on the screen that I realized its legs were flexed and not splayed, indicating it might be thinking of going somewhere instead of just lying there digesting.
Here's a link to another shot http://ggreider.smugmug.com/Animals/Alligators/11590608_kTvjxq#!i=435117327&k=PUoMa
Feb 17, 2012 10:17:16 #
I went to your site and you have captured some great gator images. Nice Job!
Feb 17, 2012 10:46:06 #
Old Tom wrote:
I went to your site and you have captured some great gator images. Nice Job!
Thank you, good sir. The linked shot -- full disclosure, truth in photography -- at 114mm equivalent was shot from a vehicle.
As noted on the web page, I just love these guys. I have only had one stalk me, as I was taking a sunrise shot, but I think it was more curious than hungry. And it stayed in the water while I was on land.
Feb 17, 2012 11:29:09 #
Feb 17, 2012 11:46:37 #
Swamp Gator wrote:
Always love seeing the alligators!
That's a cool avatar you have. Was it shot from a bank or a boat?
Feb 17, 2012 11:51:20 #
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Feb 18, 2012 01:46:23 #
very near gator bate, my understanding after living in Florida for many years is that a gator can outrun a race horse for 50 yards. If that's true, the only reason he didn't get you is because he didn't want to. They also say the brain is smaller than an orange, not so sure I want to trust my fate to anything that stupid?
Please be careful. They really are dangerous.
BTW, I lived in Lakeland with 'Blinky' the home town gator who was known to go into Penny's and Ward's downtown with the old fashion step on the pad to open the doors system.
Please be careful. They really are dangerous.
BTW, I lived in Lakeland with 'Blinky' the home town gator who was known to go into Penny's and Ward's downtown with the old fashion step on the pad to open the doors system.
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