A couple pictures from Florida

[Recty]

Here is the Tree of Life in Animal Kingdom. I plan on hooking them all together into one giant picture someday

 

[FishyBiz]

Fantastic.
That tree is insane. I was looking forward to the beach pics.:sad1:

 

[TitusvileSurfer]

We see them year around. A few months ago they had newborns in tow. I was even lucky enough to see a pair with two VERY young offspring this year!

 

[Recty]

We see them year around. A few months ago they had newborns in tow. I was even lucky enough to see a pair with two VERY young offspring this year!

Pretty cool, I never get to see babies since the cranes have them in warm climates and they fly up to us in May.

 

[TitusvileSurfer]

At this time of year it's hard to distinguish coots from adults other than the juvenile is in the middle of the parents. Otherwise they look more or less the same.

 

[Recty]

Coots? Interesting, that's the name of a pretty famous bar up here.

 

[Recty]

This little rhino killed another rhino and was eating it's guts...

OR, it's a baby milking, we couldnt tell.

This is my wife's hand, feeding a giraffe.

 

[IPT]

Shots look really nice. Are you shooting wide open or stopped down some? What ISO? I am pretty sure you're shooting handheld right?

 

[Recty]

Yep, all handheld and most of these shots were wide open, at least as wide as it gets at full zoom, so they were between f/5.6 and f/6.3.

I shot 99.99% of them at ISO 400, a very very few I did at 640 or is that 620 where the light was just a little too dim, the trip we did Saturday was very overcast so it was hard to get a lot of shutter speed. Still, most of them were taken at 1/250th or above.

 

[t5Nitro]

Nice shots. I think I want this lens now over the zeiss 21 next.

 

[TitusvileSurfer]

The surf is looking nice today! It's warming up to. THIS is a day to go to the beach!

 

[Recty]

The surf is looking nice today! It's warming up to. THIS is a day to go to the beach!

Unfortunately, at 7:30AM I flew out of Florida I just landed in Alaska, so it's back to freezing my keister off again.

 

[IPT]

Say what?? It's like 14 degrees ABOVE zero......, Man, you got soft down there...welcome back...pray for some snow or at least some Aurora. It's getting boring out there.....well, exceot for some killer sunsets. Any nice looking "seagulls" down there is the Keys? Last time I went there were a bunch .

 

[Recty]

We didnt end up going to the Keys.

Truth be told, I saw not a single "seagull". We only went to the beach once and it was a cloudy, windy day so there weren't a lot of them flocking. That's probably good though, I need to be happy with my pregnant wife, hah.

A couple more pictures... nothing amazing.

My wife holding a gecko I caught. I was amazed this photo came out clear, I took it in very very low light, handheld with my wife not being propped against anything either, so there was double the wavering that there would normally be.

Just a cool little bird flitting around. This photo really made me appreciate the lens as a great nature lens. This is a little bird, probably two inches long and it's about 30 feet away, maybe 35. The autofocus zapped right onto it, crystal clear, nice and sharp and anyway, I'm just really glad I got this lens. The shot itself is nothing spectacular, just a little birdy, but the way the shot worked was great. Me likey 100-400.

My wife feeding a giraffe, they have crazy tongues...

And then my little attempt at being artsy fartsy, I like this shot. I reminds me of a beer commercial for some reason.

 

[LINCOLNZ34]

I got a couple pictures of sandhill cranes. It's kind of neat, I could see them in Alaska but I didnt have my good zoom lens then.

They have two sets of eyelids, one blinks horizontally and is somewhat seethrough, then one main set that blinks vertically. On this picture you can see the horitzontal one starting across.

Here you can see it with the eyelid totally covering the eye... it just makes it look really dull.

Check out these wrinkly legs... and the weird way they sit down.

I'm not sure what this little bird is, but he is cool.

i think the little one is some kind of sand piper?? great pics

 

[Recty]

Yep, probably a piper of some sort. We saw some even smaller ones down at the beach but I never could get a good picture of one, they landed and flew away much too fast.

 

[michael_cb_125]

Blue fish that you posted is a blue tilapia. Megan and I catch them south of pompano beach, we have caught some over 20 pounds. These, Midas Chichlids, Oscars and Black Acaras are everywhere in Fl.

The little lizard is a bohemian anole, transplanted from the Caribbean.

Great Pics by the way.

~Michael

 

[Recty]

Cool, that's good to know. I had a lady down there tell me they were koi and I wasnt going to argue with her, but I know a lot about koi and those are NOT koi

Pretty much my last Florida pictures, I'm happy with how many I got as what I consider "keepers", I thought I'd be deleting a lot more of them. High quality glass really pays off.

This big bruiser was cool, right next to the car he was a little intimidating.

Some of the birds down there had a nice metallic gunmetal coloration to them, it was pretty cool.

This deer reminds me of the kid in school who has the big ears that everyone made fun of.

I'm pretty sure someone put lipstick on this guy.

Playing with human trash...

I'm amazed how colorful these parrots are, they were gorgeous.

 

[Chris3323]

You always manage some of the nicest pictures. I just got a D3000 for x-mas (my girlfriend is too good). So far I just have the stock lens. What do you think is the next most important moderately priced lens I should purchase?