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There's a lot of reasons I like this picture. One of the biggest is that it proves that even a wild and bombastic, Evil Spotted Thing like Macumba does indeed slow down to under light-speed occasionally!
This is one of those clam and quiet moments where my dear, brat-boy son is just laying his head on one of the logs in his cage for a moment's rest and relaxation.
This is also probably a great Feline Trivial picture as well. Cats' whiskers are indeed "feelers" in every sense of the word. In this picture, it's really visible as to how long they can be. In relative terms, that really long one that's visible in the pic is about 8-inches long. Leopards - for whatever biological reason - have just about the longest whiskers, proportionally, of all the great cats. In truth, the /real/ whisker champions are the domestic cats, whose whiskers can be more than 4-inches. Quite impressive indeed, for those little furballs!
This picture was taken 04-Jan-06. The image was taken with a Canon EOS 10D and the EF 28-200mm f/3.5-5.6 USM lens. The original was taken at full frame of 3072x2048x24b, ISO eqv 400, 1/180 shutter, f/5.6. This image was shrunken down for space conservation.
Disclaimer: I hate to have to put this on here, but the pic is copyright me. Please do not distribute, copy, alter, etc, without my permission. Having said all that, feel free to download and use it for your own inspiration.
This is one of those clam and quiet moments where my dear, brat-boy son is just laying his head on one of the logs in his cage for a moment's rest and relaxation.
This is also probably a great Feline Trivial picture as well. Cats' whiskers are indeed "feelers" in every sense of the word. In this picture, it's really visible as to how long they can be. In relative terms, that really long one that's visible in the pic is about 8-inches long. Leopards - for whatever biological reason - have just about the longest whiskers, proportionally, of all the great cats. In truth, the /real/ whisker champions are the domestic cats, whose whiskers can be more than 4-inches. Quite impressive indeed, for those little furballs!
This picture was taken 04-Jan-06. The image was taken with a Canon EOS 10D and the EF 28-200mm f/3.5-5.6 USM lens. The original was taken at full frame of 3072x2048x24b, ISO eqv 400, 1/180 shutter, f/5.6. This image was shrunken down for space conservation.
Disclaimer: I hate to have to put this on here, but the pic is copyright me. Please do not distribute, copy, alter, etc, without my permission. Having said all that, feel free to download and use it for your own inspiration.
Category Photography / Animal related (non-anthro)
Species Leopard
Size 1024 x 682px
File Size 82.3 kB
Well, truthfully, there's only /parts/ of my day you're really enjoy. The rest is little different to anyone else.
But never lose faith that you could do it all for yourself! I'm not special or unique; I've just grasp onto my dreams and turned a few of them into reality. Find a way to live your dreams, whatever they are. That's what life is all about.
But never lose faith that you could do it all for yourself! I'm not special or unique; I've just grasp onto my dreams and turned a few of them into reality. Find a way to live your dreams, whatever they are. That's what life is all about.
Over the years, I've been able to collect the "shed" whiskers from Drifter and Macumba. There's a few that I look at and I just blink a few times and say: Wow! That's long!
Whiskers are such an integral part of a cat's expression. It makes their faces both very alive, and hard to read at the same time, as there's a lot of subtle meaning to all the different whisker positions. They are a language all to themselves!
Whiskers are such an integral part of a cat's expression. It makes their faces both very alive, and hard to read at the same time, as there's a lot of subtle meaning to all the different whisker positions. They are a language all to themselves!
As is true with most cats, they can be very active when they're younger, but as they get older, they get much more...judicial and measured in their use of energy. I'd guess that Macumba will be no different.
Drifter used to be extremely active, running around his cage almost constantly to the point he'd warn out all the grass down to the bare dirt. Once he turned 7-y-o, he started to mellow out a little, and all the grass had grown back to the point that his cage looked kinda like a jungle.
Who knows? It's all in the paws of the Spirits how they turn out.
Drifter used to be extremely active, running around his cage almost constantly to the point he'd warn out all the grass down to the bare dirt. Once he turned 7-y-o, he started to mellow out a little, and all the grass had grown back to the point that his cage looked kinda like a jungle.
Who knows? It's all in the paws of the Spirits how they turn out.
Leopards are the most beautiful of all the cats. If you don't believe me, just ask one, and they'll tell you in no, uncertain terms. :)
I can't really decide which one has the "most" beauty. I love them all, and they all fill me with the same awesome wonder, but for different reasons.
I can't really decide which one has the "most" beauty. I love them all, and they all fill me with the same awesome wonder, but for different reasons.
I was really happy with this shot. If I have any critique for it, it's that I wish I'd been at a little higher off the ground, and had a downward angle of view, which would have caught the entire side of his head. But even so, there's a certain "artistic" pleasantry with this one.
I guess it will always be true that for any artist, they are their own worst critic.
I guess it will always be true that for any artist, they are their own worst critic.
I guess that's the real problem with wildlife photography. You very rarely have the opportunity to pick your angle or lighting or where the subject is in relation to the camera. Such is life, I guess.
I've discovered that it's more about being in the right place at the right nanosecond and snapping the shot, and statistically speaking, you still missed it. Probably one in every hundred shots that I have are worth anything. One in a every thousand is truly spectacular. :)
I've discovered that it's more about being in the right place at the right nanosecond and snapping the shot, and statistically speaking, you still missed it. Probably one in every hundred shots that I have are worth anything. One in a every thousand is truly spectacular. :)
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