Post your close encounters

**CowsGoMoo** · 30th June 2010, 09:28 PM

Originally Posted by Butts

Cows, great timing.

150 straight?
How many attempts?

Thanks. I may have put a 22mm extension tube on as well. It took about 1/2 an hour of taking pics of the drips to get this one. Was taken with a group from one of the photography forums went to the Jenolan Caves for the weekend a few years ago.

If you get about 10 people together you can hire a photography friendly tour guide for about $80 each for the day. He'll take you around to pretty much any of the tourist caves you want so long as you don't get in the way of the tour groups. This way they let you bring in tripods and you don't have the rush to keep to a timetable. You get about 6 hours underground and a snappy lunch break.

After dark there's also heaps of critters to photograph. Well worth the trip.

We were going to go back to do an adventure cave trip but it didn't happen in the end.

**Brettsky64** · 9th July 2010, 09:32 PM

Hi fello photographers, just a couple of shots mostly taken with canon400d and a couple with olympus utough unerwater camrea

**Chucaro** · 11th July 2010, 11:05 AM

Found today this Hedge Grasshopper in the passionfruit bush
Image full frame (uncropped)

full body

**Chucaro** · 21st July 2010, 06:54 PM

The Coastal Taipan is the second most dangerous snake in the world and Australia, The inland Taipan is the first in the list.
They are wonderful pets and will look after the place keeping intruders out

Look how cute and cuddley is this fellow

**CowsGoMoo** · 22nd July 2010, 11:46 AM

Yes, he looks like he just wants some loving.

Took this a few years ago. I liked the way the colours came out.

**Chucaro** · 23rd July 2010, 08:09 AM

That it is a good effect David, I like it!!

**Chucaro** · 23rd July 2010, 08:11 AM

The Collett's Snake (Pseudechis colletti) is a beauty, I love the colors and size

**Landy Smurf** · 25th July 2010, 09:22 PM

**Chucaro** · 3rd November 2010, 06:26 PM

Last time that I took a few shots of this wasps was when a pair was mating in one of the grevilleas in our garden.
I spotted this fellow today ( Orange Potter Wasp, (Eumenes latreilli) building a nest so I used the D300s with the 70-300VR and the 6T diopter to see if I was able to get some details.
The tip of the lens was about 300 mm from the insect and I was not prepared to get any closer.
Was a bit of a breeze and the branch was moving about 2mm each way so this is the sharpest 2 shots that I was able to get

The shots are full frame (no crop)

**PSi** · 3rd November 2010, 07:54 PM

Help, there's a bug in my hardware

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