Photos to share !!

[Booney]

Couple more - some storm fronts made for some awesome shots, along with the usual sunrise & sunset action.

Phew! I was wondering what those shots were going to be of before they uploaded.....

[A Mum]

LOL@ Booney !

Great Pictures Gingernuts
I love the 'mirrored' one.

A bit late in posting, but great family shot DW

[Gingernuts]

Couple more - some storm fronts made for some awesome shots, along with the usual sunrise & sunset action.

Phew! I was wondering what those shots were going to be of before they uploaded.....

Yea, probably could've worded that a bit better!

[Dogwatcher]

Ginger, where on the river were those shots taken?

And thanks for the compliment AM.

[Booney]

On a fly in and out trip to Darwin last week ,stopped at TIO Stadium, the site of the Bulldogs V Power massacre earlier this year.

[Gingernuts]

Upstream from Renmark, around Chowilla etc. Some great spots up that way. Wish I was still there.....

[devilsadvocate]

DA...what have you done to the dogs ears???? are they bandages???

Regards
JAS

Not sure what's going on with the dogs ears. But if they are bandages, that bloke on the couch now needs them.

[Psyber]

Some people asked to see pictures from my Africa trip, so here they are for anybody interested.
It seemed simpler to just give the link to the lot than load multiples to this site.
http://picasaweb.google.com/Psyber2009/ ... WDm_HQvgE#

Apart from the obviously gory fresh Hyaena kill [of a Kudu], and the old elephant carcase with the vultures, no animal was harmed in the taking of these shots!
The Hyaenas only backed off a little way when we walked into the river bed about dawn, and there is a shot of one of them near the shots of the Kudu body.
The Rhino and Elephant are unharmed, just sedated for Veterinary check ups, and the Rhino to be relocated as his 28" horn made him a prime target for poachers near the Mozambique border.

Kudo is tasty, but our meal of Kudu Poike didn't come off that one - Hyaena germs - ugh...

The two dark shots are first a lioness who crossed the road in front of us at night - just out of flash range, and second some Hyaena cubs peering out of a concrete drain that ran under the main road. [I need a more powerful flash.]

The caged animals are at breeding or shipping centres.

EDIT: correcting spelling of "Hyaena".

[Lightning McQueen]

Sensational Sibe, the dead Dumbo would've been fascinating. Did you try any of the Sibe suaveness with any of the South African locals?
Are you in any of the shots?
Did you get to see anything eating on the half eaten Springbok or whatever it used to be?

I've heard that South African safari tours are the ultimate in world travel.

[Q.]

Great stuff Psyber.

My personal favourite :

[nuggety goodness]

In action

so you ate all the pies!!!

[Lightning McQueen]

Great stuff Psyber.

My personal favourite :

The elephant appears to be pooing an arm

[Psyber]

Sensational Sibe, the dead Dumbo would've been fascinating. Did you try any of the Sibe suaveness with any of the South African locals?
Are you in any of the shots?
Did you get to see anything eating on the half eaten Springbok or whatever it used to be?

I've heard that South African safari tours are the ultimate in world travel.

For clarity, the dead Dumbo was the one with the ribs and the vultures whereas the one with skin still on was very much alive and got up and walked away shaking his head and tail about 15 minutes later.
The Rhino was unconscious for the indiginities like the faecal sampling Quichey reproduced above.
The lions are eating a Rhino, but in its half-eaten state it is hard to tell it from a small Elephant.

I got on fairly well with all the locals and am still exchanging photos with some of them by email.
I tried not to be provocative - all the rangers and assistants were packing .357 rifles or larger.
[An AK47 won't stop a charging Elephant - it will just make him or her very cross. The wounds may kill them slowly through infection though.]

6 Hyaena were still chewing on the half eaten Kudu when we walked into the dry river bed about 10 feet from them, from behind some bushes. Our guide was leading and got us to freeze while the Hyaena scattered - but they didn't go far - just stood about 20 feet away watching us take pictures of their breakfast. They are amazingly powerful - we also saw them totally dismember an Impala, which is about Doberman sized, in minutes. You could hear them crunching through the bones like they were biscuits.

Kudu is a buck with the white stripes on his side. http://au.images.search.yahoo.com/image ... v&type=JPG

I'm in one shot, jeans and blue jacket, beard and a bit of grey hair at the temples and rather windblown, standing in front of the sedated Elephant between its front legs and the tusks.

The small cat in the picture in the middle of the second to last row is an African Wild Cat, but it is not very wild.
It has been hanging around the camp sponging food, and spent some time sitting on my lap purring while I was having a few Windhoeks [beer] one evening.

[the big bang]

they are some intense eyes on the better half and the lil one DW!!!

[Choccies]

Some people asked to see pictures from my Africa trip, so here they are for anybody interested.
It seemed simpler to just give the link to the lot than load multiples to this site.
http://picasaweb.google.com/Psyber2009/ ... WDm_HQvgE#

Apart from the obviously gory fresh Hyena kill [of a Kudu], and the old elephant carcase with the vultures, no animal was harmed in the taking of these shots!
The Hyenas only backed off a little way when we walked into the river bed about dawn, and there is a shot of one of them near the shots of the Kudu body.
The Rhino and Elephant are unharmed, just sedated for Veterinary check ups, and the Rhino to be relocated as his 28" horn made him a prime target for poachers near the Mozambique border.

Kudo is tasty, but our meal of Kudu Poike didn't come off that one - Hyena germs - ugh...

The two dark shots are first a lioness who crossed the road in front of us at night - just out of flash range, and second some Hyena cubs peering out of a concrete drain that ran under the main road. [I need a more powerful flash.]

The caged animals are at breeding or shipping centres.

Fantastic snaps Psyber !! Almost made me feel like I was there... Well done !!

[Psyber]

A decent zoom lens helps to make it feel close and real.
That camera has 36 to 432mm [35mm equivalent] optical zoom plus 4x digital - although the loss of quality shows once you get into digital zoom.
Having rekindled my interest in photography, I've since bought the new improved version that zooms to 560mm optically, plus the 4x digital, offers 10 megapixels instead of 6, and uses higher capacity and faster memory cards - all in a compact camera. The purist in me sent me looking at full size dSLRs like the Nikon D90, Canon 50D and Pentax K7, but by the time you get to that level of zoom you are carrying a bulky pack, so I made the compromise and stuck with the moderately compact option!

[Lightning McQueen]

A decent zoom lens helps to make it feel close and real.
That camera has 38 to 432mm [35mm equivalent] optical zoom plus 4x digital - although the loss of quality shows once you get into digital zoom.
Having rekindled my interest in photography, I've since bought the new improved version that zooms to 560mm optically, plus the 4x digital, offers 10 megapixels instead of 6, and uses higher capacity and faster memory cards - all in a compact camera. The purist in me sent me looking at full size dSLRs like the Nikon D90, Canon 50D and Pentax K7, but by the time you get to that level of zoom you are carrying a bulky pack, so I made the compromise and stuck with the moderately compact option!

Did you play a role in Eurotrip?

[Dogwatcher]

Depends if he went on holiday with his sister or not.

[Dogwatcher]

they are some intense eyes on the better half and the lil one DW!!!

I know crazy isn't it!
Sometimes unnerving.
Mine however, are alcohol dulled. lol

[Psyber]

Did you play a role in Eurotrip?

What's Eurotrip?