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Postby Zeeke on Wed Jan 18, 2006 6:53 pm

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Comments welcome as always...

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Postby Alpha_7 on Wed Jan 18, 2006 7:20 pm

Tim,

Lovely stuff, love the two dragon fly shots.
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Postby kinetic on Wed Jan 18, 2006 7:32 pm

ha! When I read your post title I thought that you must have broken your camera. :lol:

I think I like the first pic the best, the blues in 1 and 2 are fantastic. If it was me, I would have cropped some of the top off the shot and centered the dragonfly more - but I'm fast learning that not everyone is a fan of the close crop! :D

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Postby Zeeke on Wed Jan 18, 2006 7:56 pm

I'm not really a fan of cropping images.. but glad you like them...

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Postby Matt. K on Wed Jan 18, 2006 7:58 pm

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Is that a mosquito? :shock: :shock:
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Postby Zeeke on Wed Jan 18, 2006 8:07 pm

Yes... Yes that is a Mosi... biggest bloody mosi ive ever seen too.. the body was about 1" in size.. make a house fly look freakin small!!

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Postby birddog114 on Wed Jan 18, 2006 8:09 pm

Zeeke wrote:Yes... Yes that is a Mosi... biggest bloody mosi ive ever seen too.. the body was about 1" in size.. make a house fly look freakin small!!

Tim


Tim,
Deep sea mosi, compared to the big snapper (7.9kgs) yesterday :lol:
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Postby Zeeke on Wed Jan 18, 2006 8:15 pm

thats it!

fought like buggery too.. took drag on 1/10th of a lb of line

could almost put a collar on it and take it for a walk!

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Postby blacknstormy on Wed Jan 18, 2006 11:04 pm

Great shots Tim - I love the mozzie shot, and its' a male (just check out those beautiful feathered antennae)
I'm not that great on mozzies, but I know there is one species that is huge, and is actually predaceous on other mozzie larvae in aquatic systems. ... have to rack my brain to remember what it was....
If I remember, I'll post it
Well done :)
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Postby blacknstormy on Wed Jan 18, 2006 11:08 pm

yeah, I remembered :)

Its Toxorhynchites speciosus - doesn't feed on humans :)
Diagnostic feature - bent and recurved proboscis :) (Wow, didn't think I'd remember my mosquito lectures that well !!!!)

A link to some info: http://www.arbovirus.health.nsw.gov.au/areas/arbovirus/mosquit/toxorhynchitesspeciosus.htm

Your photo is much much nicer than the one on the website :) !!!!
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Postby Zeeke on Wed Jan 18, 2006 11:09 pm

Scotch Grey? i think its a bit big to be one of those.. we get a few of them around my place.. but this one was huge..

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Postby Zeeke on Wed Jan 18, 2006 11:12 pm

Ahh Cool, that looks like it, it was buzzing around in the garden.. big mozzie.. be nice if they killed all the marsh mozi's around my place.. im about 70 meters from the river.. via tree farm.. they have a chopper fly over every couple of months dropping pellets.. but they arent that effective

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Postby blacknstormy on Wed Jan 18, 2006 11:13 pm

Definitely NOT a scotch grey - I'll stand by the Toxorhynchites id :)

Something that is worth looking at is the following photo series of this species emerging from the larval stage .. very cool !!

http://www.arbovirus.health.nsw.gov.au/areas/arbovirus/mosquit/photos/toxorhynchites_emerging2.jpg
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Postby Zeeke on Wed Jan 18, 2006 11:17 pm

Cool Photo! thanks for the ID!

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Postby Big Red on Thu Jan 19, 2006 12:13 am

that mossie ain't big ...
one of our local mossies landed at the little aerodrome here and they chucked 120 litres of avgas in it before they noticed :shock: BTW, great pics 8)
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Postby Matt. K on Sat Jan 21, 2006 3:01 pm

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:shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:
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Postby wendellt on Sat Jan 21, 2006 3:07 pm

Tim skillfull photography of one of natures wonders form a guy who just recently pickued up the camera, keep up with this quality and very soon you will right up there.
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Postby Oneputt on Sat Jan 21, 2006 3:20 pm

Excellent work Tim. Love them.
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Postby mudder on Sat Jan 21, 2006 3:37 pm

Strewth, if you've only recently started dabbling with the camera then I look forward to seeing more... That mossie's a big mother!
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Postby Zeeke on Sat Jan 21, 2006 4:22 pm

I started getting into photography in the last 6 months... before that i only used a Point and Shoot and that was for fishing photos... so thanks for the comments.. glad you like them... im thinking about wandering down the back and doing some exploring with the macro lens

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Postby digitor on Sat Jan 21, 2006 5:44 pm

Big Red wrote:that mossie ain't big ...
one of our local mossies landed at the little aerodrome here and they chucked 120 litres of avgas in it before they noticed :shock: BTW, great pics 8)


That is big! - I always thought that where I come from, the mossies were very big, because they used to sit on the trees and bark...

(feel free to groan any time now, my uncle used to say this all the time when I was a little kid, it took me about five years to get it :oops: :oops: )

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Postby jethro on Sat Jan 21, 2006 9:31 pm

Can you members in QLD shoot some Rhino Beetles for us i believe they would make interesting subjects
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Postby Zeeke on Sat Jan 21, 2006 9:45 pm

If i could find some i would.. but they are tricky buggers to find!

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Postby Glen on Sat Jan 21, 2006 9:50 pm

Tim the first and last really grab me. Glad your mossies are with you :lol:
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Postby MHD on Sat Jan 21, 2006 9:55 pm

good shots! liked no1 in particular.... makes me want to get the macro out! (in fact I just might....)
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Postby Zeeke on Sat Jan 21, 2006 10:26 pm

Ive been playing with PS and the tones and settings on the first image.. try and bring the life out a bit more.. i probably failed.. but let me know what you think

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And for those who liked the Mosi... heres another one for you to look at.. same one.. different shot

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and a Grasshopper today.. only managed to take one photo before it got spooked and took off.. so sorry it aint flash hot
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Postby sirhc55 on Sat Jan 21, 2006 10:41 pm

Excellent work Tim especially the reworked sample - keep it up matey :)
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Postby Dug on Sat Jan 21, 2006 11:37 pm

sorry Tim the first image was better than the reworked one.

Nice stuff though check out Geo magazine if it is still published

if not send the mozzie shot to Australian geographic and see if they will print it.

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Postby Zeeke on Sat Jan 21, 2006 11:41 pm

Im pointing them in your direction Dug...

Geo Magazine?? and where do you go to submit pictures to Australian Geo?

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Postby Dug on Sat Jan 21, 2006 11:52 pm

editorial@ausgeo.com.au


Geo does not seem to be round any more. I wold just put a short note to Aus geo saying you photographed this sucker (mozzi shot) and it's species and description.


Give them a few words about your self IE; youthful, handsome and just starting in nature photography and when and where the shot was taken.

You never know if you don't ask :-)

I have had a few small shots printed in Aus geo over the years it is hit and miss depending on how much space they have to fill up.

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Postby Zeeke on Sat Jan 21, 2006 11:56 pm

Thanks for the info Dug, ill give it a shot..

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p.s. Which image should i supply?? or just both?
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