Helpful Posts: Shamelessly played the tourist today and stood in the road at Cape Otway to shoot this koala and her joey. We saw half a dozen of them in the trees along the roadside between the GOR and the light station.
Sony a6000, 55-210mm kit lens @ 184mm, 1/320s, f6.3, ISO100
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27th November 2015, 07:04 AM #1
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27th November 2015, 11:04 AM #2
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Re: Koala Mom and Joey
Nicely captured.
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27th November 2015, 11:23 AM #3
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Such a wonderful composition!
You must be having a wonderful time. In my book, there is no such thing as shamefully playing a tourist so there is no need to mention that you're shamelessly doing it.
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27th November 2015, 12:35 PM #4
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Great and lovely
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27th November 2015, 02:44 PM #5Moderator
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Um - you are a tourist. What's wrong with acting like one?
Your wildlife photography skills that you developed at home seem to be helping in this environment, although I suspect you were able to get closer than to some of the wildlife at home.
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27th November 2015, 05:54 PM #6
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Beautiful
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27th November 2015, 07:28 PM #7
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Thanks for the comments, everyone.
It just felt a bit hypocritical since we live in a tourist area and I've sworn under my breath many times when people stop their motorhomes in the middle of the highway to photography wildlife. Actually for both safety sake and out of courtesy I did stay out of the road here
Originally Posted by GrumpyDiver
Indeed there was more risk from passing cars than from the critter. You can see I only needed 184mm(276 FF equiv) for a full frame shot. The lady was going about her business eating leaves without regard to the growing crowd beneath the tree. As a matter of fact she was annoyingly oblivious as she wouldn't even give a bit of eye contact to the cameraYour wildlife photography skills that you developed at home seem to be helping in this environment, although I suspect you were able to get closer than to some of the wildlife at home.
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27th November 2015, 11:48 PM #8
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She has that here we go again look in her eye. I guess you won't have been the first or last that day but I bet there aren't many as good as this one. Originally Posted by NorthernFocus
..................... As a matter of fact she was annoyingly oblivious as she wouldn't even give a bit of eye contact to the camera
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28th November 2015, 12:47 AM #9
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You could almost argue that the joey is looking at you though.
Nice shot.
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28th November 2015, 03:27 PM #10
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Cute shot and well taken.
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28th November 2015, 05:51 PM #11
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Thanks, guys.
The little guy was hanging on for dear life. Mom made no apparent attempt to help the joey hang on to her. She was focused on climbing where she needed to go to get at the leaves. It was up to the little one to hang precariously to her. Originally Posted by GBO25
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28th November 2015, 11:53 PM #12
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Well at least the mother is trying to stay away from tourists like you... Originally Posted by NorthernFocus
I wouldn't touch nor cuddle nor be near the tree where they defacate and do their duties. Koalas stinks. Honest.
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29th November 2015, 01:57 AM #13
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Sweet image.....
Griddi......
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29th November 2015, 07:21 AM #14
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Now that you mention it, we went to the Koala hospital in Port Macquarie. While we were waiting for the official tour to start we wandered around and chatted with a couple of the people that were in working at various tasks with the koalas. By doing so we also saw several of the animals at viewing distance of just a few feet. Full frame iPhone range. We came away with our cuddly little illusions shattered. Also several of the ones that we saw in the wild were rather mangy looking. Thanks to Disney, my entire generation (at least in the USA) grew up with a delusional view of what wildlife is really like. I've been overcoming those delusions ever since one species at a time... Originally Posted by IzzieK
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29th November 2015, 09:53 AM #15
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Originally Posted by NorthernFocus
Now that you mention it, we went to the Koala hospital in Port Macquarie. While we were waiting for the official tour to start we wandered around and chatted with a couple of the people that were in working at various tasks with the koalas. By doing so we also saw several of the animals at viewing distance of just a few feet. Full frame iPhone range. We came away with our cuddly little illusions shattered. Also several of the ones that we saw in the wild were rather mangy looking. Thanks to Disney, my entire generation (at least in the USA) grew up with a delusional view of what wildlife is really like. I've been overcoming those delusions ever since one species at a time...
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