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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2014 14:10:27 GMT
This is a wild alligator at a state park in the Southland, sunning itself on an embankment next to a large pond. This animal is about 12 feet long from nose to tip of tail, and since it can jump and run much faster than most people, you can't get too close. This shot from about 50 feet behind a tree, using the Panasonic ZS40/TZ60 at full zoom. f6.4, 1/125 handheld, ISO 100.
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Post by PinkFloyd on Apr 8, 2014 20:41:54 GMT
Nice snap Dale
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2014 21:50:01 GMT
Nice snap Dale If I had photographed it, I would have had to use a telescope from 10 times further away !
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Post by PinkFloyd on Apr 10, 2014 22:11:10 GMT
Nice snap Dale If I had photographed it, I would have had to use a telescope from 10 times further away ! I hate zoos so wouldn't have been within a mile of the place..... I doubt I'd have my camera with me, anyway, even if I had avoided ever meeting one in a normal day to day scenario. Mike.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2014 3:13:29 GMT
What's really fun is watching people walk toward the edge of the water near where alligators lay sunning - people who have their dogs with them. Alligators love dogs - they ate 2 of my brother's dogs when the dogs wandered near the pond behind his yard. Gators wander in there from a water channel nearby. I didn't know anything but stories before I moved here - now I see what the deal is. These beasties are protected, so they eat whatever they like until someone pays to have them hauled away. Then they come back of course.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2014 3:52:19 GMT
What's really fun is watching people walk toward the edge of the water near where alligators lay sunning - people who have their dogs with them. Alligators love dogs - they ate 2 of my brother's dogs when the dogs wandered near the pond behind his yard. Gators wander in there from a water channel nearby. I didn't know anything but stories before I moved here - now I see what the deal is. These beasties are protected, so they eat whatever they like until someone pays to have them hauled away. Then they come back of course. Perhaps we can train the alligators to eat smokers too ? That would remove a tremendous burden on the health system !
P.S. My previous reply in the other thread would have been much stronger, but I would have needed to disable the auto censor !
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2014 6:30:00 GMT
I love smokers - they're the kind of people who keep us free.
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