Ok I am an Avid hunter fisherman and outdoors men so Lets see your Animal and fish pics for this week take a trip to the zoo the mountains what ever lets just see the wildlife rp

The photos don't have to have any theme or subject, but should capture {wildlife }

The rules:
1. Post ONE photo (max 800x800) as a response to THIS post.
2. The photo must portray an interpretation of the theme. It can be colour or B&W, your choice.
3. You can offer as much or as little additional information as you wish, but I'd be interested to know the location/event/whatever being depicted.
4. The challenge is interactive. Any response is welcome.
5. The judge will pick the WINNERS and chose 1 of them to be the judge for the next week.
6. The challenge runs for 6 days plus a day for the judge to choose the winners.
7. Any camera will do but it must be a Pentax. Just use any camera you want. No discriminating anyone as long as the is an active member here

The competition is open from midnight today (Wednesday) August 29th until midnight Wednesday, September 5th. I will judge on {sep 6th } and post results during that day.



Previous Challenge Subjects:
1-Statues, 2-Wheels, 3-Speed, 4-Peace, 5-Survival, 6-Macro, 7-Mountains, 8-Children, 9-Post Processing, 10- Windows & Doors, 11-Sport, 12-Urban Landscape, 13-Wisdom, 14-Power, 15-Music, 16-Pathways, 17-Lines, 18-Storm, 19-Boats, 20-Water, 21 - Golden Hour, 22 - Natural Lighting, Portraits, 23- Motion Blur, 24-Simplicity, 25 - Color, 26 - Cars..., 27 Repetition

[Arjay Bee]

"Home is the Hunter,
home from the hill ..."

Well was once a hunter - now a bit overweight:


DL2 16-45 Sigma DG500 ST

[m8o]

Some members by now have come across me often mentioning my trip to Tanzania I just got back from a few days ago. This challenge is therefore timely.

I'm going through the RAWs in date order and most of what I consider my best are days away. But I was thinking about jumping ahead to pick one for this challenge; of all the close-ups I have of female and male lions, some badly beaten-up, Giraffes fighting, my "getting it on" series of baboons, hienas and gazelles (an especially funny one) -- <grin> really, I didn't go looking for it, it was just that time of year I guess -- great birdies, storks, vultures, parrot, huge heards of beasties [of the 'wilda' variety], etc. etc. etc... a lot of wildlife!

Then I came to a pic from our 2nd day out as I go through the day's shots and I remembered the story behind it. I think the exposure and story behind it makes it worthy of sharing. So here's my addition, and back-story...

We hear from a passing guide there's a female lion on the prowel in the tall grass down the hill. But we can't really see her from the height of the grass. Plus, we're looking into the setting sun; also doesn't make for optimal photo shooting conditions either. There's about a dozen Land Rovers on the hillside on the other side of the field in-front of us. We can see where they're looking, but no joy for us. You can see the aggitation of all the baboons. And we continue to struggle to figure out just where that lioness is in the weeds. We know a pounce could come at any minute to an unsuspecting animal. So finally, this baboon [me ] took a good deal of pride in being the 1st one in our Land Rover to realize "what's the problem? ... just look where the Baboons are looking!" It took a real evolved primate to figure that one out, huh? Here you [finally] go:



But we didn't have the angle the baboons had way up in the sausage tree. The lioness must have been crouched in a hunting position and we still couldn't get a good glimps of her. We soon gave up and left; had it been a photographer's safari we probably would have stayed.

I could have brought some detail out in the Baboon using fill light and lowering the black level (I'm luv'n Lightroom!); I did a tad. But that would have negated the natural effect of shooting into the setting sun, with light causing the glow of the hair and leaves. Hope you enjoyed my capture and circuitous route I took going from the the front to the back stories.

[Gaelen]

well not really wildlife, but one of my favorite pictures of my friends 3 legged cat

[roentarre]

This is a fantastic shot!

[J.Scott]

I haven't entered in a while so I thought I'd give it a try again.

He is definitely wild looking! Some kind of exotic pigeon I think.

(Taken with my 'pawn-shop special' Pentax-F 80-200mm lens.)

[chrisman]

Thought I would enter something different, given the generally sharp, well exposed entries already posted.

This is an Australian Mynah (honeyeater) photographed with a 200mm lens, hand held at 1/13th sec and deliberately panned in the opposite direction to the bird's motion. No Photoshopping!

[m8o]

This is a fantastic shot!

Thank You James ... I'm really kicking myself thinking about the other shots I took at that time but deleted from the camera that I 'thought' wouldn't come to anything from preview. (where's the "hit hammer on head" smiley?! they were much darker tho and I could tell this silhouette was a special one)

[KennJ]

Shot with a Tokina 80-400 2nd Edition and K10D at Lake Whitehurst in Norfolk Va. last week. The lake is near the airport and Botanical Gardens.

[Photo Tramp]

Back yard wild life.

[Izzy]

Well....so the wildlife lives in my house, but how cute is a sleepy baby cockatoo. My entry that really doesn't meet the them...exactly.

Here's one I grabbed on a lunchtime outing.

[little laker]

I'm glad that he didn't grab you for a lunchtime outing Eddy

Nice pic, how close were you to it? What sized lens?

[Spot Focus]

A Black-Shouldered Kite atop a 90 foot Norfolk Pine taken with K10D+Sigma 50-500

I'm glad that he didn't grab you for a lunchtime outing Eddy

Nice pic, how close were you to it? What sized lens?

Hey Stu, I was about 30 feet away shooting through the window of my Pick Up. The lens, I believe, was the DA 50-200.

He would had to have devoured the entire truck before he could have gotten me.

The photo was taken at the Savannah National Wildlife Refuge about 10 miles from downtown Savannah, GA.

[coatz]

my frist entry on one of these contests.