seancrane

Came across this guy yesterday morning in the San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary.

Thanks for any comments (click for larger view).

This guy was kicking back taking a rest on his back at the end of the day. Thanks for

any comments (click for larger view).

Hi Ray,

Yes, I was shooting at 17mm, so the flowers appear further apart than they actually were. They weren't really all over the place, but more of a patch of them in this clearing of birch trees. I did take a few with a longer lens, but wasn't able to capture the multitude of flowers. Thanks for looking.

Hey Stephen, not sure if you were asking rhetorically or not but to me the photo is the photo regardless of how it was taken or who it was taken by, and it stands on its own with or without the back story. My feeling about it won't change based on the method or that it was Marsel that took it, but I do find the method interesting and I'll have to try it myself because I am also a wildlife shooter and always trying to get as low and close as I can. That being said, my point was only that really talented photographers like Marsel will always "get lucky" more often than less talented photographers because you tend to make and create your own luck based on ability. You can look at Marsel's portfolio and say, damn that guy has been very lucky in his career, having an elephant just show up at the top of Victoria Falls or having two pied crows just show up in an already nice landscape composition. But when it happens repeatedly, you realize that it's not luck at all, but a really good photographer having the ability to take advantage of the opportunities presented to him.

Yes, luck always comes into play when photographing wildlife, but there's a difference between someone who takes one amazingly lucky wildlife shot to go along with a portfolio of mediocre images, and someone like Marsel who took this amazingly lucky wildlife shot to go along with his entire portfolio of equally amazing images. Congratulations. I stumbled upon your squiver site many years ago and have been a big fan ever since. From your "Gotcha" chameleon to your "Cape Gull" to my personal favorite "The Fog," all amazing images.

Shot in the wild in the Pantanal of Brazil. Thanks for any comments (click for larger

view).

A month ago I posted a horizontal from this particular morning. That shot was taken

about 10 minutes after I took this one. I was forced to shoot only verticals at first

because I was at 300mm and wanted to get both the sun and bear into the

composition. I had a second camera but the mirror had frozen in the up position in the -

27F degree weather. Eventually I switched lenses, but I liked the sun in this position

best, before it cleared the clouds. Thanks for any comments.

A pretty magical morning last Thursday up on the tundra. Thanks for any

comments (click for larger view).

Real nice Alf. Real nice.

Hey Tom,

I was using a Nikon 70-200 f2.8 VR lens on a Nikon D200 camera. I used two SB-800 flash units on a flash bracket (plus the light from my headlamp was hitting the leaf behind the frog).

As the light shifted and I slowly drifted past, I took three exposures of the same yacare

caimain with different bits of the landscape reflecting off the water. Thanks for any

comments (click for larger view).