Not sure if this will stay up long-I seem to have images of this nature banned unfortunately on this forum.But I have some of my wildlife images used in many publications recently,and they have been very well received,by various natural history departments,I even had to give an in field tutorial to PHD students the other day.
This large stick/mantis insect fell out of a tree and a Kooka swooped down on it,I swooped over to ute and nabbed the 50D and 400 L and got a few images before it was swallowed whole!
Higher res version here (sorry for the copyright logo-but unfortunately have to start using them,due to thieving)
Beautiful, as usual. Focus, lighting and composition are all great.
I've seen them swallow frogs whole (after bashing them to a pulp) so I'm not surprised they can get a stick insect down. Mind you, for dramatic value this is nothing on the recent shots of a python swallowing a croc.
Thanks kindly gentlemen for feed back.It was difficult as sun right over head,and he moving and smashing insect against tree branch,and trying to review/adjust settings quickly.But pleased with this image-there is a heap more,but many duds,I'll go through a couple and might post some more for your thoughts,but this appears the best.It also has that 'twinkle in the eye' editors and such do like that very much.Also I find in a good measure of sharpness-by zooming right into the eye and twinkle when in photoshop,if its a perfect star sharp-its good,if its a bit blurry-either you or the animal has moved a fraction.
Thanks for looking.
Last edited by hotspur; 06-03-2014 at 03:49 PM.
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Great shot Chris i have a pic of a Crested Hawk eating one of those .Not as sharp as that though. On another note I picked up the 150-600mm Tamron zoom today to use with the 60D.Will be interesting to see how it goes.
