Beautiful Animals

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We don't have Elk,either wild or tame in Altringham tsar.My money's on a Fallow Deer Stag....

Wide,flat antlers with two big spikes in the middle .

I saw that - it was a rescued young bear, wasn't it? Whadda face.

Hah, ten points, Barry.. that's quite a photo too. I like the light in both photos.

All things considered,he was in the "safest" place.I would NOT like to have been on one of the many ships that were also observing.



G'night.

Not safe though, according to HOT (Helen of Troy). I forget her more recent screen name. She seems to know that stuff. My father never made much of it - getting the photo job done. I agree re being on the ships. If it's not clear, I hate bombs. Wrong thread for all that.

Back to animals - I've been going through some of my collected photo cards and post cards and have a batch to post here and some over on the animals in art thread. (First I need to figure out how to put the photos of Katy on my desktop in an iPhoto file so I have room to put scanned photos there) - I'm a tech slow poke.

Here's one of Running White Deer, County Wiklow, Ireland 1967, by Paul Caponigro. Famous photo I've always loved. The card was distributed at the Peter Fetterman gallery in Santa Monica, CA. But, I haven't scanned the card yet, so here's a link from the net:


Seems to be from the Fetterman gallery website.

edgar, Thanks for the cub. It looks like a teddy bear, except for the claws.

Barry, Definitely not an elk. Great pic of the fallow deer. Here's an elk. The antlers are very different.



The kitten is too much. Not gonna thud. Not gonna thud.

osso, Great pic. I'm assuming that the deer look white because of some kind of heat sensor thing with the camera. Of course, I could be wrong.

Moose:

They might be albino deer (wiki says there are some). But I dunno about there being herds of them.
Also I typo'd - it's County Wicklow that the photo was taken in, not Wiklow.

Adds, I've been looking Paul Caponigro up and it seems he was interested in time -
http://steveanchell.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=60%3Apaul-caponigro&catid=16%3Aprofiles&Itemid=39

I don't know enough about time lapse photography, but I'm just guessing it's one albino deer shot over a long time. There was a fairly recent report of an albino deer in the Wicklow area.

Glasswing butterfly

Never heard of a glasswing butterfly. Neat.

That's a wonderful photograph (Running White Deer), osso.
Stunning.

10 images from the Veolia Environnement wildlife photographer of the year 2012 competition, published in the Guardian. (link below). Here's one of them: :



The world in our hands award Winner: Ice matters by Anna Henly (UK) Anna was on a boat in Svalbard an archipelago midway between mainland Norway and the North Pole when she saw this polar bear at around four in the morning. It was October, and the bear was walking on broken-up ice floes, seemingly tentatively, not quite sure where to trust its weight. She used her fisheye lens to make the enormous animal appear diminutive and create an impression of the top predator on top of the planet, with its ice world breaking up . The symbolism, of course, is that polar bears rely almost entirely on the marine sea ice environment for their survival, and year by year, increasing temperatures are reducing the amount of ice cover and the amount of time available for the bears to hunt marine mammals Photograph: Anna Henly/2012 Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year.


Veolia Environnement wildlife photographer of the year – in pictures:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2012/oct/18/veolia-environnement-wildlife-photographer-2012-in-pictures#/?picture=397888953&index=0

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I liked this one a lot, too.
Actually I liked most of them. :


Nature in black and white award Winner: Hare in a landscape Robert Zoehrer (Austria) This steep, ploughed field, in Burgenland, Austria, with a ribbon of dazzling yellow oilseed rape on the horizon and a swath of green to the side, was just what Robert was looking for. But it lacked a focus point, he says. As if on cue, a brown hare entered stage right from the grass and sat motionless on the furrowed soil. But once I saw the image in black and white, says Robert, not only was the stark geometry highlighted but also the small hare became the centre of the composition rather than being lost among the colour Photograph: Robert Zoehrer/2012 Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year.

osso, I honestly think that the photo is of a herd of deer, just plain deer. I believe that the whiteness is a result of a heat sensor. Albino deer are very rare. Also, look at the rest of the photo. A lot of detail is missing. If the photo was taken at night, even albino deer wouldn't appear white. It's a great pic, however it was taken. How could you have never heard of a glasswing butterfly? I've posted a number a pictures of them. I'm crushed.

HH, Great shot of the glasswing. They are beauties. Thanks.

olga, Two spectacular, breathtaking pictures. Love the bear. Really love the bunny. Thanks mucho.

Spirit bear (variation of black bears; they are cream colored):

Emu chicks. The dadda incubates and raises them.

Amazing color and look of the wish..boomerang you are right..this is the most beautiful fish ever...!!!

Interesting point the photographer Zoeher made. I like seeing the hare's shadow myself.

I missed that photograph when it was posted. Thanks Osso for pointing it out. thanks MsOlga for posting it. It borders on being a black and white abstract painting. Very cool indeed.

Memory like a sieve...

I still cling to thinking it's a trick time lapse thing, one deer moving around over x minutes, camera in steady position, not that I'd know how to do that.. maybe that's my fantasy. The top of the photo is clear, especially if I look at other copies of it with more in the photo - there are some on google images. And while albino's are rare, known in that area.

And in that article about him, it brought out his interest in time. But - I get your point about the light and figure you may be right. On the other hand, it's not all that dark out, will post another version from another website. The grass is quite dark and the whites quite white, high contrast.

Among the subtleties that make me think I'm wrong, would one moving deer over time have the same speed in each frame? No. Jump around in space? No.

Maybe Boomer knows the background to it.


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