Don't mind the double chin...... Or the poor quality iPhone photos! But I just adore my new guy!!!!
Looks like the feeling is mutual. That dragon loves you.
GECKO/DRAGON/SKINK etc. Pics
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Looks like the feeling is mutual. That dragon loves you.
Oh they are stunning! I have other photos of a plain patternless skink (about the same size as the Murray's) but for the life of me I'm unable to identfy, probabaly just another Murray's anyway. It's a bloody cracker of a photo but all I can call it is a 'Skink' untill I able to ID it correctly.
Nah mate, these guys are in a reserve like forest, I would never dream of interfearing with their diets just for them to hang around for me to snap a few shots. I only got this one the way I did cos I snuck around the side of the tree and had flash on (I dislike using flash unless I truely need to) I prefer for them to remain cautious of humans, there are few who would just let them be.
I don't have all that stuff, and for me I don't feel the need to have all of it (so much stuff to lug around whilst trecking) I'm happy with the images I can produce with my Olympus (and so are the people who buy my photos) but I'm also looking at a Nickon (will be better for my night runs)
Anyway, time to post some photos of some Pinkies!
Ok well, heres a bunch I found for more (I have so many more!)
The first 3 photos are of Pinkies around the house, showing off the diffrenance in patterning in one small location. The first 2 live on oppsite sides of the house.
As for the pinky under the red heat lamp: She was out frozen, felt like a ice-cube after all that really long period of heavy rain which had her flushed out of a pipe. At the time I was only thinking about her well being and thought her to be quite ill has she had no reaction to me scooping her up. Later that night while under 24/hr heat she had let loose 29new borns and was realsed the next day after a good munch on some snails. (A hell of a lot to say about me picking her up then! Guess the poor girl was in labour when I found her. Didn't happen to think she may be garvid)
Now for the hatchlings I have in my hands. The first one is in the morning after I had relised what was in there. He was only about 2" long, nose vent. As for the 4 in the 5th pic they are 4 days old, one of the young had gotten scoliosis (curving of the spine) so I had held onto him afew days to take him to the Wildlife Hospital (where I do my vol work), the other 3 were for the comfort and to help him feel protected untill the release. They were all released healthy.
The last one is just a amazing pattern spp. I found 5min from my new house.
Sorry for the long story, fingers keep typing. I'm off to bed!
The first 3 photos are of Pinkies around the house, showing off the diffrenance in patterning in one small location. The first 2 live on oppsite sides of the house.
As for the pinky under the red heat lamp: She was out frozen, felt like a ice-cube after all that really long period of heavy rain which had her flushed out of a pipe. At the time I was only thinking about her well being and thought her to be quite ill has she had no reaction to me scooping her up. Later that night while under 24/hr heat she had let loose 29new borns and was realsed the next day after a good munch on some snails. (A hell of a lot to say about me picking her up then! Guess the poor girl was in labour when I found her. Didn't happen to think she may be garvid)
Now for the hatchlings I have in my hands. The first one is in the morning after I had relised what was in there. He was only about 2" long, nose vent. As for the 4 in the 5th pic they are 4 days old, one of the young had gotten scoliosis (curving of the spine) so I had held onto him afew days to take him to the Wildlife Hospital (where I do my vol work), the other 3 were for the comfort and to help him feel protected untill the release. They were all released healthy.
The last one is just a amazing pattern spp. I found 5min from my new house.
Sorry for the long story, fingers keep typing. I'm off to bed!
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Thats amazing Miss Mac, I cant imagine picking up a lizard and the next morning having little lizards running everywhere!
I've been very pleasantly suprized by how good the images are that I can get when I use my wife's little Olympus 10 MPixcel point and shoot. Often just grab it instead of the 40D and a suitable zoom or macro or telephoto.
The kit lens that came with 40D (and 18-85 IS Zoom/Macro) produces some excellent images and has much more flexibility and capability (such as choosing ISO speed). I have prime telephotos too, but these like you said are a bother to cart around unless I really want to produce that special image. My 135 f2, 180 f2.8 and 300 f2.8 are huge (and heavy), but I didn't buy them for herp-imaging but for another of my hobbies where big apeture fast APO / L / LD (and expensive) prime lenses is needed. (But I've also been into photography since my teens and have had 40 years to accumulate my gear). I've found my little Sigma 50-150 f2.8 APO is a handy and light lens to have on hand.
I'm eying off a 400 f3.5 LD but that will be a beast and not exactly a light piece of prime glass. It will produce incredible images of deep space objects and will be good for sports photos and travel photos of wildlife in an undisturbed distant setting.
I've found the lizards aren't keen on the flash (when recharging), the recharging of the capacitors in them must be scarey and strange to them. The shutter sound also sometimes upsets some lizards (esp on the 40D).
I prefer to set up my camera preaimed on a tripod and get back well beyond 2m from the lizard and wait quietly for the lizard and to fire off the shutter and flash via the chinese clone tc80n3 cable (which is a fantastic gadget).
You don't need to actually give the insect as food treat to the lizard (put it a transparent container, the lizard will see it and come out and perhaps try to eat it). You can take the container and live insect away when you've got the shot - but personally I'd reward the lizard with the treat.
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I love those hatchys!!! I need one....or five
Cheers mate. I was so stoked to find them!
I brought a little Panasonic Lumex (the last Pinkie was shot with that handheld) the photos that come out of that little thing is outstanding! One of my favourite little gadgetz as it gose everywere with me in my pocket!
Maybe in a few years I will look into getting all that kind of kit. Photography, to get setup costs an amazing amount of money to get started. The camera lens I'm looking at getting alone will be 900 at it's cheapest that my partner is trying to get (pretty sure it's a zoom lens of some kind).
I find that most animals can't stand the flash (neither can I) so I just avoid using it when ever possible. I only use it once or twice on any given animal. My shutter dosen't sound. I'd bugger off too if I were a herp and something big and keeps brightly flashing in my face.
Using a tripod is something I do when I go to the zoo, theres time to set it up and get everything sorted. Now using a tripod and trying to nab photos of Lacies/snakes/frogs.. ect. It's a whole new story ime. They arn't going to hang around for someone to setup (unless said herp is expecting something from the humans, like i've seen in pincnic grounds)
I can see where your coming from with the grubs in tubs idea, and it is a good one. But it would be like taunting you with something that you would really love to eat but someone wont let you. Taunting it right infront of your face. It is still interfearing imo, so not something I would do. I really only touch a leaf around me and make a little rustle with it (marjority of the time it makes them bolt off) just for them to turn their head or something.
They all had their own little personalities too. The temptation was there to just keep one... or three. But not only is that against the law, it wouldn't be fair on the little guys. Better to have those little ones running around the yard so they can make more little bundles of cuteness!
Those are stunning. And those babies are supercute.
Lucky you to have a bunch of baby pinkys to enjoy having living on your property.
Deffentaly. I would had loved to have watch them grow up. But I have moved out from that house since then (i was still living with my mum then). At his new place I'm at there is ment to have a big Brown that lives here, I am yet to see him.
You can always befriend them if they stick around.
IMO it's worth the extra expense to get fast zooms and telephotos, you can get good photos with less natural light and in shade, and you don't need to get as close to the animal to get great photos (with the 50-150 f2.8 set at 150mm and the 135 f2 I can be several metre away and the animal not even bothered by me, and bigger 180 f2.8 and 300 f2.8 (neither are IS lenses) I can be 10 to 20 m away and the animal will be totally oblivious to me being around. But even with image stabilization and very short exposures (if I set ISO higher , say 800 or 1600) you still need a monopod or a tripod or something steady to rest the camera and lens on. A good tripod can make your images ultra sharp - absolutely no image shake or movement (unless the object moves).
I know bird watchers who sware by their big fast L or LD or APO or ED zooms or prime fixed focal length prime L or LD or APO lenses and their monopod or tripod. And these things aren't cheap here in Australia, even if bought secondhand on Ebay.
My big lenses are not even Canons, they are manual focus Nikon ED or Tamron LD Adaptall lens that use with an adapter. I don't mind manual focusing or operating the camera in apeture priority mode and prefer this approach in fact (but I am very much old school when comes to photography).
The purists only use Canon L class (top of the range) zooms, macros and prime telephotos on their Canon DSLRs. You need a lot of money to kit up with these. They are fabulous glass but it's doubtful if they are worth the expense to buy them (even on the grey market).
If I ever splash and get any Canon L lenses , their 200mm f2 L IS USM, 85mm f1.2 L USM and 70-200mm f2.8 L IS USM and maybe a wide L fast L USM zoom/macro will be on my list. But a full frame 5D is way ahead of them on my wanted list and none of them will be bought locally - I object to the extortionate prices local camera dealers demand.
If you mum likes lizards and befriends them, you can still enjoy them when you visit maybe.
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More pics anyone?? Really interested in seeing your herps!
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A few of the more 'creative' pics:
My male levis, marbled gecko and central beardie being a wizard lizard
Absolutely love these pic's, very creative
Wow, you really seem to know what your talking about with cameras! I'm no way as familiar with them. It was the Nikon D3100 we are looking at with the Tamron 18-300mm zoom lens.
Mum would rather just sit and watch and appreciate having them around (just like with all her birds) instead of interact with them.
Heres a Water Dragon to keep the pics going (Free to roam around the zoo)
With you moving out and all that maybe she'll get the empty nest syndrone and become interested the baby pinkies - they are super cute afterall and how could anyone not like them ?
I'd be cautious with these "superzooms" with such a huge zoom range. Check out the reviews on their performance before spending up. But hey Tamron do great lenses, easily as good as if not better than Nikon and Canon, this is why I've bought some of their older adaptall LD primes.
If that Nikon D3100 with the Tamron 18-300mm is sold as kit, it'll be a good starting point and will give plenty of flexibility and my your kit light to carry about.. If Nikon have a remote shutter gadget - it's worth buying one or a chinese clone of the Nikon gadget. Spare batteries are handy to have too, I keep 3 charged Li-Ion batteries in my pack at all times, I also remove my battery from the camera when not in use for an extended time - I've seen what happens when one of these batteries fails and leaks. (wasn't my camera fortunately but a friends , the repair was expensive).
If the D3100 has camera + lens kit option, worth getting this and opting for a kit lens with some macro capabiity - you'll be glad you have macro as an option. Also worth checking out foreign retailors (in the USA) as you will avoid paying the GST if the camera body is under $1000 AUD, same with the lenses you buy and any accessories. (Important to keep the parcels shipped to you BY AIRMAIL (USPS) under $1000 AUD). You'll also find retail prices in the USA are often lots cheaper than here too , more money saved, and by the time you pay your USD retail price and postage you can be hundreds of AUD in front (at least 10% in front).
Local big retailors and specialty camera retailors refuse to price match and will try scare tactics on you about warantee issues and the like to get you to buy from them.
Most people in the know see straight through those tactics and usually buy major camera items by mailorder from overseas.
If you want to see the camera and lenses , got a shop by all means and pretend you are interested in buying off them and ask for their very best CASH PRICE and get them to write it down, date and initial it. Wont hurt.
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I don't think she will have that problem, my brother, sister, dad and nanna all live there (it's a big house) She was inlove with them too like me!
It's still awhile untill be decide to get them so we will be doing some reserch on them. The lens dose come with the D3100 and both came highly recomended by my partners very good mate (a bloody awesome photographer)
I do need to get some more rechargables and I always have a spare pack in my pocket when I head out.
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enclosures :] i need some newer pics lol 
in that stand i now have 3 four foot tanks
in that stand i now have 3 four foot tanks
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I can't wait until next month and my hatchling starts showing his colours off, right now he only has a tinge of yellow on his sides, legs and nose. Beautiful Centrals though Brettix
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