I went looking for wildlife this morning; some days you just shoot what you can find, even when it's just tree rodents...
To be honest, they are really cute, especially when they're all twitterpated.
Jerry
These two were...uh, "wrestling" all over the place...
I guess this comes next, carrying nesting material.
Tenn.Jer wrote:
I went looking for wildlife this morning; some days you just shoot what you can find, even when it's just tree rodents...
To be honest, they are really cute, especially when they're all twitterpated.
5DII and 100 f/2.8 Macro two springs ago. An orchid - I did identify the type at the time but can't find the info at this moment. Fancy it looks like an alien life form drifting in space:
Tenn.Jer wrote:
I went looking for wildlife this morning; some days you just shoot what you can find, even when it's just tree rodents...
To be honest, they are really cute, especially when they're all twitterpated.
Jerry
Carnivorous squirrels - priceless. Must be a mutation of sorts. I wonder what was attached to that bone before it became separated?
Anyhoo, here's a few of my shots from Peterhof, one of St. Pete's suburbs. There have been spring works, and a large fountain has been restored http://cs630718.vk.me/v630718358/22f50/0_-1I_LMibU.jpg
During that time I have also tested a fellow photographer's Canon 100-400 lens (mark I) with confusing results: biting sharpness at the short end and unacceptably soft results at 300+ mm. That left me scratching my head.
Sorry I've fallen behind schedule but there has been a boatload of work (of the "not really interesting but time consuming" kind).
Interesting to see the restoration in progress on the fountain at the Peterhof, Snopchenko. Thanks for that little tour. Neptune looks displeased. He's overseeing the work and not entirely satisfied with the way it's going.
Snopchenko wrote:
Carnivorous squirrels - priceless. Must be a mutation of sorts. I wonder what was attached to that bone before it became separated?
Anyhoo, here's a few of my shots from Peterhof, one of St. Pete's suburbs. There have been spring works, and a large fountain has been restored http://cs630718.vk.me/v630718358/22f50/0_-1I_LMibU.jpg
During that time I have also tested a fellow photographer's Canon 100-400 lens (mark I) with confusing results: biting sharpness at the short end and unacceptably soft results at 300+ mm. That left me scratching my head.
Sorry I've fallen behind schedule but there has been a boatload of work (of the "not really interesting but time consuming" kind)....Show more →
Ilya, I really enjoy the slices of Russian life you post, both your travels and your day-to-day work. It's one of the great benefits of being part of this particular community, being able to see bits of life (through photography) from all around the world...so, my thanks for showing us your side St. Petersburg.
Just in case you weren't joking, I'll tell you what little I know of local squirrel diets. I've often found bones and dropped antlers with toothmarks on them; antlers in particular are sometimes gnawed right out of existence. Apparently rodents will chew on them to get the minerals (particularly calcium) from them, something lacking in their usual vegetarian diet. I've never actually seen one in action, so I was delighted when the squirrel, after rummaging around in the ground cover, took off up the tree with the bone held sideways in its mouth. A pity those three or four shots were blurry, it had that bulldog-with-a-bone look. I was tickled though, when he sat on the limb above me, munching on the end of the joint (probably the upper front leg bone of a whitetail deer) for eight or ten minutes. Then he ran down and stashed it again under a downed limb, carefully covering it with leaves. A cool behavior to witness...
Gearwise, my copy of the original 100-400 was a little soft at 400mm, and I usually managed to remember to stop zooming in around 375mm or so. At the time I understood it to be just a quirk of that particular design, though later I saw countless examples where it was sharp right through the range. Possibly I found the softness simply because I expected it to be there, my problem with preconceptions from reading too many online reviews..
