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Post by spinal on Dec 2, 2013 18:50:08 GMT
Given how impressed I am every time that I see a picture of food on here, and wish I could be that good at photographing food... I thought I would post a picture I took over the weekend (in Spain before anyone asks). These are Iberian Wolves I'm told, and the camera is an old pentax k100d with sigma 18-200 glass. They may not be good in a wfo, but they sure are stunning creatures (and so alert/wired! The freaked at our slightest move, and I had to manually focus as the auto-focus noise scared them) m. |
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Post by kipper on Dec 2, 2013 19:36:19 GMT
nice image.I struggle with manual focus I think you need pretty good eyesight for that if shooting distance.I have some nice old Pentax smc lens which make lovely portraits. by the look they're giving you must of had a steak poking out your pocket  |
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Post by muddy4x4 on Dec 2, 2013 19:57:10 GMT
What magnificent beautiful animals! Can someone explain to me why Essex Police and Colchester Zoo decided to shoot the wolves that escaped last week ? These were animals that has been breed and brought up in captivity. Reading en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_attacks_on_humans makes interesting reading. Wish I could take photos as good as that ! |
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Post by rivergirl on Dec 2, 2013 22:01:50 GMT
Wow!!!!!
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Post by spinal on Dec 2, 2013 23:44:25 GMT
Here are some others. According to our guide, the pup was around 6-8 months old, and the howling quite rare to see (albeit not strange they they were howling during the day).   As for the steak, they were a lot more interested in keeping an eye on the alfa male, who was the one who came closest to us. He was a little jumpy of the camera, but I reckon the guide feeds them regularly as they went reasonably close (20m or so) to her (though they really did not trust us at all). M. |
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Post by spinal on Dec 3, 2013 0:16:25 GMT
One last picture before I goto bed... this was the reason we went to Spain in the first place:  As soon as I get some free time (2014?) I'll put together the helmet camera video... M. |
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Post by rivergirl on Dec 3, 2013 19:05:46 GMT
Wow again! Did you climb that?
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Post by spinal on Dec 3, 2013 21:30:44 GMT
Walk more than climb, but yes It's a path on the rock. To get to it, you do a small via ferrata, then climb a bit to get to the path (the government demolished the first part of the path to stop people walking it after a set of deaths). It's around 100-odd meters off the ground. More details on my bucket-list site, but that pretty much summarises it! www.eovita.com/?page_id=103 (also some other person's video) M. |
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Post by joe on Jan 7, 2014 11:02:58 GMT
wow that made feel really ill lol i suffer with really bad vertigo so needless to say that isnt for me. beautiful place tho and i can understand why people enjoy walking it. would think the government would maintain it to make it safer rather than do an half arsed job at stopping people walking it!
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Post by spinal on Jan 7, 2014 16:58:29 GMT
They have a 3m euro project in place to "sanitise" the walkway - hence why we went in November... had to get in before the workers started making it safe  Ironically, after a tree-climbing accident a few years ago, I suffered from vertigo as well. I couldn't walk up an exposed staircase, or stand on balconies with low edges. That's why I started rock climbing - to get over my fears. M. |
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Post by joe on Jan 7, 2014 18:07:59 GMT
well as daft as it sounds ive never had a fear of heights they really dont bother me! i fly quite regular and it doesnt bother me ive been up blackpool tower been on the pepsi max roller coaster none of it bothers me at all it seems to be when i feel something is unsafe then i get very dizzy and feel sick almost instantly guess its just a self preservation gene taking over lol. if them barriers were replaced and them holes in the floors repaired i would walk it no problem but like that....no way! like i said tho its a beautiful place and should be maintained for people to see.
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Post by limpopomark on Jan 9, 2014 19:10:49 GMT
this is amazing stuff; in similar vein, and i am not sure if it's your bag or whatever, but if you ever wanted try and see the world's most endangered cat species - the iberian lynx - drop me a line and i'd be happy to help with a few pointers
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Post by spinal on Jan 9, 2014 19:41:35 GMT
Is the iberian lynx in Spain, or somewhere closer to Limpopo? I have a friend working in Botswana that I've promised to visit a few times over... if only I could get a client that far south...
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Post by cannyfradock on Jan 11, 2014 16:27:49 GMT
Spinal
Now then M. I saw your original post in this thread of the wolves and thought it was nice to share some beautiful wildlife pictures taken by yourself. Only by following this thread I saw "your reason to go to Spain in the first place"...then saw that "walk of death". Having clicked on your website and read up on the "El Camido del Rey"....I now realise that you are totally mad. I've done some silly and daring things in my lifetime, but THAT ledge would not be on my...to do list.
Love the website btw...and your "just get up off your backside and do it"!! motivation to readers of your website.
Great thread!
Terry
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Post by limpopomark on Jan 12, 2014 6:27:19 GMT
The Iberian lynx in Spain; had a 20 second glimpse (if that) but it still counts! We have caracals here, but they're hardly in the same order of rarity. If I stand on the roof I can almost see Botswana - I hope you make it there one day!
Thanks again for posting the wolf pictures.
mark
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