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  • 09-18-2013, 02:49 PM
    Grandpaw
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    Take my picture
    This big gator came up to me and posed showing me it's better side.

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  • 09-18-2013, 04:29 PM
    wfooshee
    Re: Take my picture
    He probably wants you to clean that green gunk off of him! I've got some of the same type pictures here! I could wish I had a hose.....
  • 09-20-2013, 04:44 PM
    Grandpaw
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    Click to make image bigger
    Here is a little wider shot
  • 09-27-2013, 11:22 AM
    Photo-John
    Re: Take my picture
    Great gator photos, Grandpaw! Sometimes I get tired of bird photos and it's good to see some big lizards :)

    How close were you to that gator when you took the picture, anyway? I'm guessing you were pretty close. That looks like it was shot with a wide-angle lens.
  • 10-01-2013, 07:26 PM
    Grandpaw
    Re: Take my picture
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Photo-John View Post
    Great gator photos, Grandpaw! Sometimes I get tired of bird photos and it's good to see some big lizards :)

    How close were you to that gator when you took the picture, anyway? I'm guessing you were pretty close. That looks like it was shot with a wide-angle lens.
    I was probably about six to seven feet away from the gator
  • 10-11-2013, 07:35 AM
    Photo-John
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    What lens did you use? Did you crop the photo at all? It looks to me like you're about 4 feet away. Either way, it feels too close to me. Did it make you nervous?
  • 10-11-2013, 12:52 PM
    Grandpaw
    Re: Take my picture
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Photo-John View Post
    What lens did you use? Did you crop the photo at all? It looks to me like you're about 4 feet away. Either way, it feels too close to me. Did it make you nervous?
    I took this with my D600 using my Nikon 70-200VR at 70mm and no it is NOT cropped, you are seeing the whole frame. He was a very big gator!
  • 10-14-2013, 03:47 PM
    Photo-John
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    Ok - consider me impressed. Walking backwards while a giant lizard is approaching me is not my idea of a good time :)
  • 10-14-2013, 05:29 PM
    Grandpaw
    Re: Take my picture
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    Originally Posted by Photo-John View Post
    Ok - consider me impressed. Walking backwards while a giant lizard is approaching me is not my idea of a good time :)
    John, actually I am the one that stayed put and he backed up and slid back into the pond.
  • 10-28-2013, 09:35 PM
    Allen23
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    Nice wildlife photography
  • 10-28-2013, 10:33 PM
    TJer
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    Dang son!!! So you're walking backward with your eye still in the viewfinder with the gater that close????? Good grief man, must've had a shortage of common sense that day, lol! Just kidding of course, but holy smokes that was just a tad too "candid", lol.

    Tim