September Photo Challenge - Entries

[iceman]

Put your entries in here..

Subject: The Animal Kingdom - All creatures Great and Small

Rules:
1) 1 entry per person
2) (optional) Include in your post, the date the photo was taken
3) Normal image posting guidelines apply (150k max).
4) Comments go in the Comments thread.

Good luck everyone!

[leon]

This is (Brett) our turtle, he has just woken up after about 4 months of winter sleep, (Lazy Bugger)

Cheers Leon

[Ric]

This is Velcro, a 10 year old Manx

[Sonia]

Crab on the beach on the east coast

[allan gould]

Well Here is mine. July in Seville Spain, 38 degree day, no water, no food, waiting for tourists. Poor bugger.

[[1ponders]]

"Fudge" looking for Gnomes amongst the strawberries

[EzyStyles]

went down to melb aquarium over the weekend. captured this little fellow seahorse. very weird looking though.

[Dave47tuc]

The family's best friend "Danny" Just great with the kids.

[33South]

things you see by the side of the road - last trip to Canada

[xstream]

Taken November 2005 Sovereign Hill.

[rasp]

a Cicada just after shedding it's last coat
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[crystal_stars]

Here's my effort. This was taken september 2004 at the melbourne zoo.


C.

[beren]

Think I've posted this one before on the site but its a memorable one for me :P One of the first shots I took with my new D70 DSLR in Feb/Mar 2005.Very hot day at Perth Zoo with nearly all the animals taking siesta's except for this obliging meerakat who scaled this 2m rock for some sentry duty :)

[Striker]

I have to post my Favourite Powder Blue Tang called "Powder" in my Marine tank.
Taken 12 months ago with the Canon 20DA.

[xelasnave]

You all dont know how lucky you are I found a photo of my boy "Bundy" the biggest bundle of loveable dog there is.
alex

[xelasnave]

Scale..that is my hand he has hold of not my daughter's:)
alex

[middy]

I took this photo in Feb 1999 at the Sepilok Orang-utan sanctuary in Sarawak, Malaysia. At the sanctuary they rehabilitate orphaned Orang-utans for eventual release back into the wild. (Scanned from the original print)

[ballaratdragons]

Ibis to the Sun

This was taken from my back Paddock today (11th September 2006) at 2pm using a Kodak Easyshare CX7310. No processing done coz I like the way it looks 'as is'.

I was photographing them on the ground. As I crept up, they took off and I got this great image as they flew into the Sun.

They are 'Australian White Ibis'

[Phil]

This is my shot this month of a happy little frog

[earthlight]

This Bearded Dragon was taken on the 24th June 2006 with my trusty Cannon Ixus 500. It is sitting on an old air valve ball in our front yard. It was so calm it even let us touch it.

I just love the skin.

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Earthlight

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[janoskiss]

Here is a colourful thirsty creature crashing a party in Bulgaria. Date: 15 July 2006.

[bojan]

Spider in the night.....

[joe_smith]

Taken on the 13 Sep down the south coast at bass point
camera fuji finepix s5500

[WadeH]

Turtle pic taken at Taronga Park Zoo, Sydney 31/07/06.
Used Olympus 410 compact digital.

[iceman]

The problem with going to the zoo, is that you end with too many animal shots.. makes it very hard to choose which one to enter :)

Every person I showed the photos to, chose a different favourite. :) Made it very hard to decide :) You can see my rejects in another thread coming soon.

Here's what I ended up with.. I just love big cats.

350D + 75-300mm lens @ 135mm, ISO100, f/5.6, handheld @ 1/160s through glass.

Taken 3rd September 2006 at Taronga Zoo.

[RB]

We had planned to take our family to the zoo last week too.
Kids loved it. My wife and I of course where exhusted by the end.

I was lucky enough to grab this shot of the tiger when it was feeding.
Difficult shot because there was a huge crowd and I had to shoot handheld from the back of the group and through the plate safety glass.

[ving]

lol, changed my mind... i guess thats what i get living in a house of females :P

heres a pic i took yesterday. framing done in psp9. twas a bit fiddly but the outcome is nice :)

[Dennis]

Hello,

The Australian Pelican from SeaWorld (Gold Coast), 18th September 2006. Minolta DiMage 7Hi. 100ASA, 135mm fl, 1/350s at f6.7. Resampled from original “Fine” 2560x1920 jpg down to 1024x833 jpg at 30% compression. Border added in Corel PhotoPaint 12.

Couldn't quite capture a decent photo of the Polar Bears or Dolphins. :(

Cheers

Dennis

[spacezebra]

Hi there

Kodak Easyshare DX6340 20.9.2006

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He is sooooooo cute!

Where do you guys get those really neat frames?

Cheers Petra

[firstlight]

Hi all,

We caught this shot on our Venus transit expedition to Exmouth in Western Australia. Taken on the 10th of June 2004 near Hamelin Pool. Photo take with Canon Ixus 500

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[asimov]

Hi all.

Kodak Easyshare DX6340 taken at Glenforest Animal Park SA late last year.

[spudrick]

This is my pet, she is so placid and loves to go for a walk.
Taken last christmas : Canon A30 digital

[acropolite]

Japanese Macaque (snow) monkeys from the Launceston monkey Island. Many of the monkeys carry the Herpes B virus, which is relatively harmless to them but can be fatal to humans. Some years ago, the Launceston City Council, which owns the colony, decided to have the monkeys put down. The public were enraged at the councils proposal to put down the monkeys so the council launched a fund raising appeal to build a new safer enclosure for these animals and they were saved are still with us today. :thumbsup:

[Dujon]

Right, so I ran out of ideas. OK?

[Adrian-H]

23rd - 200mm telephoto
would love a real macro lens

[jackenau]

Taken Jan 1. Must have rained. Sharpend and reduced in photoshop.One of my first photo's with Canon 350d.

[jjjnettie]

Puss sitting on her hind legs to clean her armpit.
Beergut covers one foot.:lol:
Don't you love the flexability and balance of these creatures?
Photo taken with video camera.

[Jonathan]

Here's another cat picture...........:P

I took this about a year ago when the lazy bugger was enjoying some late afternoon sunshine. I used my Nikon FM3a and Fuji Velvia 50 film.

[Sharnbrook]

I've run out of time trying to get the shot I really wanted, so on the basis of All Creatures Great and Small, here is a small one. A green reed frog (Litoria fallax). As a comparison with the big cats, at about 200kg each, this one weighs about 5gm in my estimation, or 1/40,000th of the weight.

300D with 100mm macro lens: 1/200 sec @ f13, with flash infill.
Taken Sept 2nd 06

Regards,

Mike

[Astro Girl]

I took this photo at the zoo.
We had a very nice time looking at all the animals.

:rundog:

[anna]

Our 11 year old moggie "Monie-Boy"', doing it tough.