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wide angle lens for wildlife photography
My favorite lens for wildlife is the 500 f/4 L IS, but sometimes you
need something a little bit wider ... like when the cheetah jumps on the roof and looks thru your viewfinder http://members.aol.com/bhilton665/ta...06/cheetah.htm ... Also some pics of lions behaving badly on the same trip if you follow the links and some good bird pics, though the light was difficult during much of the trip. Bill |
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wide angle lens for wildlife photography
In article .com, Bill
Hilton wrote: like when the cheetah jumps on the roof and looks thru your viewfinder "Driver, can you put me nearer that herd of humans over there?" Roger |
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wide angle lens for wildlife photography
Bill,
Those lion shots are compelling, as is the story and background. What a scene/experience that must have been. A few years ago I was watching a grizzly bear hunting elk calves in a rainstrom (so no photos). He was bird-dogging back and forth in the sagebrush when he jumped a calf that had been hidden beneath a bush. Despite the youngster's age he was fast and the chase continued for over a hundred yards. The bear was losing ground, but then the calf turned at right angles to its former path and the bear cut the corner catching up to it and smashing to the ground. I'll never forget the strange rush of emotions, first rooting for the bear and then the calf. Strange, confused emotions when it was all over. Am wondering how you felt after watching this violent affair. Again, great photos... Gordon Dietzman "Bill Hilton" wrote in message oups.com... My favorite lens for wildlife is the 500 f/4 L IS, but sometimes you need something a little bit wider ... like when the cheetah jumps on the roof and looks thru your viewfinder http://members.aol.com/bhilton665/ta...06/cheetah.htm ... Also some pics of lions behaving badly on the same trip if you follow the links and some good bird pics, though the light was difficult during much of the trip. Bill |
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wide angle lens for wildlife photography
Wow.
Good or bad, nature is infinitely interesting. And, yes, we are part of nature. - Alan Justice "Bill Hilton" wrote in message oups.com... Gordon Dietzman writes ... Those lion shots are compelling, as is the story and background. What a scene/experience that must have been. Thanks Gordon, glad you liked them. I'll never forget the strange rush of emotions, first rooting for the bear and then the calf. Strange, confused emotions when it was all over. Am wondering how you felt after watching this violent affair Interesting question ... I'm reminded of a "Seinfeld" show where Jerry remarks how one week on the Nature channel the story is about antelopes trying to escape from vicious predators and you're pulling for the antelope, and next week the story is about how the mama cheetah/lion/leopard needs to catch an antelope to feed her hungry cubs/kittens and you are pulling for the cheetah So I wasn't really emotionally involved in this lion squabble ... in another photo you can clearly see the ribs and backbone jutting out from the Mohawk male even though his belly is full so he was in pretty bad shape. So even though he was acting badly (in human terms) by not sharing the buffalo it's clear that the males felt they needed that meat to live. Lions live short, brutish violent lives and this is the kind of thing you'd expect when food is scarce. Half the lion cub deaths (per Schaller's research) were due to starvation, when larger lions wouldn't let them feed on a carcass Had the female been crippled and then swarmed by hyenas (their usual fate) I would have felt badly for her but she walked off and can hunt much better than the males so likely caught something fresh later on anyway. I would feel really bad if I somehow did something to cause a death ... for example the cheetah mom with the two small cubs shown on a different page may have been hiding the cubs so she could hunt later ... we didn't see the cubs at first so approached closer than we should have and she brought them into the open and was moving them when we left ... had a lion or hyena seen this they would have tried to catch and kill the cubs and to some extent that would have been partially due to us, and I would have felt really bad. From now on when we see cheetahs near grass patches like this I'll ask the driver to stay back a bit until we're sure there aren't small cubs in hiding. The one time I did feel bad was in January ... a wildebeest calf maybe 3-5 days old was separated from its mother and the entire herd and since only the mother will feed it this one was sure to either starve or be killed by predators, especially since their herding instinct is so strong they will approach any moving shape in hopes it's their mother, so they will walk right up to a lion or hyena. So we see this little guy alone maybe 50 yards out in the woodlands, lost and confused, and the driver makes a sound like 'waaauuugh', somewhat like a wildebeest ... and the little calf jumps up and runs right to the jeep and imprints on us as his fellow herd member ... so he's running around us all happy and excited, probably looking for an exhaust pipe so he can try to nurse ... so then we see another vehicle coming behind us and decide to move on (it's very early and we are looking for lions) and as we start to drive off the calf runs after us ... the driver goes faster and the calf is running flat out, bawling all the way ... we finally have to hit over 35 mph to leave the little guy behind and you can imagine he's crying in wildebeest-speak "mom, mom, don't leave me again! mom, mom ..." So I felt guilty about getting the little guy's hopes up and asked the driver not to call in any more wilde calves if we saw them ... Bill |
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