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Yikes!

(should have very quietly swapped out to a macro lens, then came back)

Luckily I had just swapped out to my 70-300 so I was able to get to a safe distance to shoot. I have better ones that I will post as soon as I process them.

Edit: Big ass snake shot
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3491/3466421963_6f69d6b5f6_o.jpg

(Don’t click if snake give you the heebie jeebies)

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Some b-sides, then I’m out for the night:

http://www.speedpicks.com/deer3.jpg – a little blurry unfortunately
http://www.speedpicks.com/deer6.jpg – get my good side
http://www.speedpicks.com/deer9.jpg – knobby knees
http://www.speedpicks.com/deer10.jpg
http://www.speedpicks.com/deer12.jpg – my only dam shot

Great stuff by everybody again!

Good stuff!
I have no luck with deer. Dams were much easier.

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I dunno… the ‘dental dam’ made me LOL, Elsinore

Me too!! Great jorb on the milestone!

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I don’t get it. I thought you were supposed to put moccasins on your feet.

Yea ..I’ll pass on the slithery kind of moccasins thank you.

Actually I did a bit of research and found out that it is a Banded water snake.

Not venomous but they will bite very hard as a coworker of mine found out last year when a bite from one of these bad boys got very infected and almost cost him his hand.

I think I’ll stay away from these guys too just to be safe.

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Ok so I go at lunch to take a few last minute shots at an old mill dam down the road from work. I am standing on the edge of the stream with the camera on the tripod looking through the veiwfinder when I feel something on my foot.

I look down and see this:

A water moccasin is trying to use my feet as a warmer upper!

I slowly slide him off my foot and step back a few feet to snap a few pics of him.

The things I do for Farktography!

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Cool!

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Need a judgment call.

Is a herring run on the side of a dam acceptable?

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3566/3465074171_d7c9d5d4e6_o.jpg

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Don’t forget that you were drunk, so that’s definitely a good keeper ratio for drunktography 😉 Cool stuff, too!

I really wasn’t too drunk, but shooting in a mosh pit with a p&s, in constantly changing light conditions is very challenging.

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my best deer shot…

Uuuhhh. Typically dams are slower, less easily frightened and more predictably located. 😉

/if needed, dams can also be made.
//hmmm. if i went to the sporting goods store i bet i could get right up close to a deer head….

Yea…I have a ton of dam shots, but I wanted honest to goodness in the wild living deerz! Dam it!

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my best deer shot…

Damn Deer!

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This theme should be called Damn Deer!!!

I have a lot of nice shots of blurry white tails running away from, me!

Looks like it is gonna be all dams this week.

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I’ve seen these before. Very cool.

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Thanks Choc-Ful-A bucky_bacon & U-Man for the props.

All my entries this week were shot Wednesday morning. Maybe I should wait till last minute all the time.

There were a ton of great shots this week.

U-Man I still think the Mother stone is awesome!

Has anyone ever gotten 1-2-3 before?

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Way too many B-Sides this week after a last minute shoot.

If anybody wants to check em out…

http://www.flickr.com/photos/21629306@N00/sets/72157616816956418/

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Ok..So I said screw it and snuck out of work for a bit and headed over to the closest large cemetery.

Spent about 20 minutes shooting and took 150 shots.

Now lets see if there is anything good.

Yes I did get funny looks from the old folks that were driving in and out. Almost like I was committing a sin by taking pictures of headstones. Screw em!

The caretaker/groundskeeper did walk by as I was laying on the ground taking a shot and said to me “Lovely day to take pictures” (It really is, the sky is deep blue this morning)

/edited for punctuation 🙂

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