Thread: Post your fauna shots

Spotted this guy by the local lake (Which is council code for over flow drain)

These guys seemed happy enough to let me get reasonably close down by the Yarra out of Warrandyte.

Orange Potter Wasp, (Eumenes latreilli) mating, detail

Arthur,

I've been pottering through these photography threads and I have to say... your images are beautiful.

One after the other I find myself looking at your images and thinking - "Wow I hope one day I can take photos like that!"

I suffer from the same thing Paul (Scarry) mentioned in the bird thread.... I learn something new, but don't find the time to practise it often enough..so I forget too much.

To me, your work is a perfect example of it's the photographer..not the gear that makes the real difference.

I have a nice collection of Nikon gear...some of it the same as yours. But I have not yet mastered it as you have...

Thank you for sharing such great work....

Thank you Mark for your very kind words, your work is very good as well.
I have plenty time to dedicate to photography but having said that 2014 was not very productive.
Which Nikon lens do you have and most important which kind of tripod and head?
Keep posting mate we all learn and enjoy for each others work.

Thanks Arthur,

I shoot with a D7000 and a Manfrotto 190XPROB tripod with a Vanguard BBH-200 Ball head. I do however very rarely use the tripod 99% of my shots are hand held - which is probably a mistake.

As far as lenses go, I've been a little naughty
I started with:

• 55mm AiS f/2,8 Micro-Nikkor
• AF-S 16-85 VR
• AF-S 70-300 VR
• AF-S 35mm f1.8
• Tokina 11-16 f/2.8

Then I found a pro wedding photographer that was switching from Nikon to Canon.. at the prices I paid I couldnt resist:

• AF-S 105mm f/2.8 VR Micro
• AF-S 70-200 f/2.8 VRII

So obviously I have the gear, I just need to dedicate more time to getting better with it. Something I do really enjoy doing when i can find time.

Except the weight is a bugger, I tend to use the 70-200 more than anything.

You have an excellent collection of lens. The 70-200 f/2.8VRII it is an awesome lens and very good for indoors sport photography but the reach without a converter it is not the best for avian photography.
Both micro are excellent lens
Many photographers under estimate the quality of the 70-300 VR and I assume that it is because the low price.
I have a Tokina 10-24 f/4 for landscaping and I believe that your Tokina it is very good as well.
The 35 mm Nikon is very nice, I do not know much about the 16-85 VR.
You have not excuses mate, if the weather is not good for avina or landscaping get you micro and explore the miniature world. It is a lot of fun

Some of the locals near Sawpit Creek Kosciusko National Park