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- May 3rd, 2015, 6:13 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Hiking the Everglades National Park
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2467
Re: Hiking the Everglades National Park
What a great trip you sent me on. Thanks very much for this!
- May 3rd, 2015, 6:11 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Far-north Queensland, Australia
- Replies: 13
- Views: 7407
Re: Far-north Queensland, Australia
Very, very wonderful stuff. Thanks for sharing! There are three flash reflections in all the critters' eyes. What's your flash rig?
Thanks again!
Thanks again!
- May 3rd, 2015, 6:08 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Some hooks I made recently
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2945
Re: Some hooks I made recently
Stronk Leike Russian Tenk
- May 3rd, 2015, 6:07 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Herping Japan?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2897
Re: Herping Japan?
And while you're in Japan, do make a side trip to that little island not far to the south. Also quite good for herping, I hear
- May 3rd, 2015, 6:04 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Discussion Q: how young is too young to freehandle hots?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 7689
Re: Discussion Q: how young is too young to freehandle hots?
CONGRATULATIONS!! And yes, you made me look
- April 28th, 2015, 9:48 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Morocco - april 2015
- Replies: 19
- Views: 10339
Re: Morocco - april 2015
Great set of photos, Thor! Your shallow DOF brings the faces, and in some cases only the eyes, in focus and lets them tell the story. I find it particularly nice since it lets the animals blend into the background, which is more or less the color of the animals. Is that a personal technique you deve...
- April 28th, 2015, 9:33 pm
- Forum: Image Lab
- Topic: Need tripod purchasing tips, please!
- Replies: 21
- Views: 10979
Re: Need tripod purchasing tips, please!
LOVE IT!VAS wrote:Spend once and cry once.
- April 27th, 2015, 4:44 am
- Forum: Image Lab
- Topic: Need tripod purchasing tips, please!
- Replies: 21
- Views: 10979
Re: Need tripod purchasing tips, please!
I love that photo of the tripod and the rattlesnake. Alien scout vessel meets Earthling. Scout vessel deploys huge outboard camera plus mobile video screen. "We come in peace." "Hissssssssss." "Take us to your leader." "Hisssssssssssssss." Et cetera, ad nausea...
- April 26th, 2015, 9:55 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Carter Caves April 24, 25 and 26
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4250
Re: Carter Caves April 24, 25 and 26
The much-underestimated steaming jungles of Ohio! Who'dathunk it ... love the Leopard Moth and the Tiger Beetle, and that rock formation (wtf, how did it get that way?)
Thanks very much for sharing!
Thanks very much for sharing!
- April 25th, 2015, 8:48 pm
- Forum: Image Lab
- Topic: Need tripod purchasing tips, please!
- Replies: 21
- Views: 10979
Re: Need tripod purchasing tips, please!
Wow ... again, thank you all very much for the awesome help! Much food for thought! I've looked around the website of my local supplier, and this one caught my eye. . I like the travel aspect. I just can't find out how low this actually goes. Does anyone know (or is anyone able to see) how close to ...
- April 24th, 2015, 4:32 am
- Forum: Image Lab
- Topic: Need tripod purchasing tips, please!
- Replies: 21
- Views: 10979
Need tripod purchasing tips, please!
Hi all, I'm thinking of getting more into plant and landscape photography, and of generally using the flash less during daytime (I shoot mostly in dark forests). I'm looking for something highly flexible and light. Also important is that I can put it flat on the ground to shoot terrestrial things ey...
- April 24th, 2015, 1:49 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Retic Underwater Video
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4911
Re: Retic Underwater Video
Awesome indeed!!!
- April 22nd, 2015, 6:13 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: A few common but cute snakes from Selangor (Malaysia)
- Replies: 20
- Views: 7346
Re: A few common but cute snakes from Selangor (Malaysia)
There's something Japanese about Spock. Like the Nipponese, he would have made a great "forcing nature to be more natural than itself" gardener and herpeto- why, anythingculturalist!
- April 22nd, 2015, 5:16 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: A few common but cute snakes from Selangor (Malaysia)
- Replies: 20
- Views: 7346
Re: A few common but cute snakes from Selangor (Malaysia)
You know who Hagen was, right? He was the one who brought the seemingly unstoppable Siegfried down... Know Him By His Lies
Hans, gloomily
Hans, gloomily
- April 18th, 2015, 8:24 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: A few common but cute snakes from Selangor (Malaysia)
- Replies: 20
- Views: 7346
Re: A few common but cute snakes from Selangor (Malaysia)
Hmmmm ... a dangerous path you were treading, young padawan. Not be with you the next time, the Force will ....orionmystery wrote:Therefore, I am guessing the viper was 14cm from the front of my lens.
- April 17th, 2015, 12:49 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: A few common but cute snakes from Selangor (Malaysia)
- Replies: 20
- Views: 7346
Re: A few common but cute snakes from Selangor (Malaysia)
Wonderful! Say, what lens did you use for the first Wagler's shot, and how close did you go?
- April 16th, 2015, 6:48 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: A Productive Day with My Son
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2989
Re: A Productive Day with My Son
Wonderful! You're doing the right thing there!
- April 15th, 2015, 9:55 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Borneo Dispatches #82: Exploring Planet Kinabalu
- Replies: 23
- Views: 13125
Re: Borneo Dispatches #82: Exploring Planet Kinabalu
Yeah, I keep hearing that from various quarters. Guess we were stupid-lucky. We knew all Rhabdophis should be treated carefully, but once the snake shows no aggression, one tends to gets increasingly careless. Agreed, although I was a little surprised at your lack of caution with this species consi...
- April 14th, 2015, 10:47 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Herp trip to Rio Santiago Nature Resort, Honduras
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7028
Re: Herp trip to Rio Santiago Nature Resort, Honduras
Incredible stuff! Thanks very much for sharing!
- April 14th, 2015, 9:20 pm
- Forum: Image Lab
- Topic: Need tips for buying wide-angle lens, please
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5052
Re: Need tips for buying wide-angle lens, please
Update: I went with the Pentax Zoom Fisheye to Super Wide-Angle SMCP-DA 10-17mm f/3.5-4.5 ED (IF) and took it for a spin last Sunday, using not other lens the entire afternoon. Results here: Nepenthes Badlands Paradise (West Sarawak) As you can see, I had oodles of fun with the lens :-) Thank you al...
- April 14th, 2015, 9:13 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Borneo Dispatches #82: Exploring Planet Kinabalu
- Replies: 23
- Views: 13125
Re: Borneo Dispatches #82: Exploring Planet Kinabalu
Thanks very much, fellows! Regarding Rhabdophis murudensis, I recall a couple years ago reading the Singaporean FHF member 'David' recounting his experience of being bitten by one at Mt Kinabalu. The effects didn't sound very nice, but not fatal or particularly damaging. Yeah, I keep hearing that fr...
- April 12th, 2015, 11:09 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Borneo Dispatches #82: Exploring Planet Kinabalu
- Replies: 23
- Views: 13125
Re: Borneo Dispatches #82: Exploring Planet Kinabalu
Thanks very much, JEDDLV and Ribbit! Yes, much like every Japanese should climb Mount Fuji once in their lives, every nature aficionado should visit Borneo....
- April 10th, 2015, 11:25 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Borneo Dispatches #82: Exploring Planet Kinabalu
- Replies: 23
- Views: 13125
Re: Borneo Dispatches #82: Exploring Planet Kinabalu
Thank you, Roki. There's indeed a great chance of that happening .. the amount of people who've made it down here since I started posting about my new home four years ago is quite amazing. Borneo is known to reach out its vine tendrils and catch people by the ankle.
- April 8th, 2015, 5:51 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Like stars in the night - an evening on a Thai mountain
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4268
Re: Like stars in the night - an evening on a Thai mountain
Great Elephants!!! Thanks for sharing - a wonderful post to mirror a wonderful night! You had me at "Green Keelback"
- April 7th, 2015, 2:55 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Handling Wild Herps Poll
- Replies: 66
- Views: 26026
Re: Handling Wild Herps Poll
No....can't say I have!
- April 7th, 2015, 2:44 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Handling Wild Herps Poll
- Replies: 66
- Views: 26026
Re: Handling Wild Herps Poll
What does that entail?Kelly Mc wrote:extricating foxtails
- April 6th, 2015, 9:56 pm
- Forum: Invertebrate Forum
- Topic: Giant Asian Forest Scopion
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3104
Re: Giant Asian Forest Scopion
Heterometrus longimanus. I love those! They're not very venomous, but the pincers pack a pretty punch. I also like how they always wheel around to face you.
- April 6th, 2015, 5:29 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Handling Wild Herps Poll
- Replies: 66
- Views: 26026
Re: Handling Wild Herps Poll
Birders. Sheesh. They've never held anything in their hands, will never know how it feels, so they harass herpers out of sheer existential frustration. Don't get me started on birders.....
[Disclaimer: This reply may be seen in a humorous light. Or not. Decide for yourself]
[Disclaimer: This reply may be seen in a humorous light. Or not. Decide for yourself]
- April 5th, 2015, 10:57 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Borneo Dispatches #82: Exploring Planet Kinabalu
- Replies: 23
- Views: 13125
Re: Borneo Dispatches #82: Exploring Planet Kinabalu
Thank you, Warren! We aimz to pleez...
- April 5th, 2015, 2:38 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Borneo Dispatches #82: Exploring Planet Kinabalu
- Replies: 23
- Views: 13125
Re: Borneo Dispatches #82: Exploring Planet Kinabalu
15/04/05: Updated the original post with more photos
- April 4th, 2015, 11:49 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Borneo Dispatches #82: Exploring Planet Kinabalu
- Replies: 23
- Views: 13125
Re: Borneo Dispatches #82: Exploring Planet Kinabalu
Sorry, just realized that I left out you BerdNirds. Here's a list of the montane goodies we saw. None of these birds exist in the lowlands. Bornean Treepie Temminck's Babbler Grey-chinned Minivet, male AND female - the flame of the jungle! Bar-winged Flycatcher-shrike Golden naped Barbet, Mountain B...
- April 4th, 2015, 11:19 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Borneo Dispatches #82: Exploring Planet Kinabalu
- Replies: 23
- Views: 13125
Re: Borneo Dispatches #82: Exploring Planet Kinabalu
Thanks very much for the kind words, everyone (special thanks to Kelly Mc - always the poet!) and the IDs! I'm hoping to get more phasmid IDs from Ch'ien. (I know he knows what they are - he found almost all of them, and although I kept taking notes like a madman, all that information just became to...
- April 4th, 2015, 11:49 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Phenotypic Plasticity in Andean Rainfrog
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2393
Re: Phenotypic Plasticity in Andean Rainfrog
awesome. evolution is awesome.
- April 4th, 2015, 8:15 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Borneo Dispatches #82: Exploring Planet Kinabalu
- Replies: 23
- Views: 13125
Borneo Dispatches #82: Exploring Planet Kinabalu
Hi all, I haven't posted anything in a great while. Busy with work, a two-month trip back to the homeland (Taiwan), a few houseguests back here, and other lame excuses. But now I'll make up for this with a post introducing the wonderful parallel universe that is Planet Kinabalu. OK, technically, Kin...
- April 2nd, 2015, 5:56 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Best hand held gps
- Replies: 43
- Views: 13661
Re: Best hand held gps
It's funny how even the basics of terrain and natural nav can reliably put you in the right direction. A friend of mine showed me the stick and the shadow trick. Basically you put a stick in the ground, and put rocks or debris down in a straight line to show the shadow of the sun. Come back as litt...
- April 2nd, 2015, 5:35 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Best hand held gps
- Replies: 43
- Views: 13661
Re: Best hand held gps
It's funny how even the basics of terrain and natural nav can reliably put you in the right direction. A friend of mine showed me the stick and the shadow trick. Basically you put a stick in the ground, and put rocks or debris down in a straight line to show the shadow of the sun. Come back as litt...
- April 1st, 2015, 10:08 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Best hand held gps
- Replies: 43
- Views: 13661
Re: Best hand held gps
Not sure if this is an unpopular opinion, but I believe that no matter how good the gps, functional knowledge of the basics of terrain navigation and topo map and compass use are essential as a backup. The gps is a superior tool, but the old wisdom that "two is one and one is none" still ...
- March 31st, 2015, 11:25 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Handheld GPS for tech idiot
- Replies: 24
- Views: 6694
Re: Handheld GPS for tech idiot
FWIW, I just learned that there are portable solar panels for GPS units and smartphones, in fact, anything with a UPS port. Might just be the solution to the hunger for power most GPS units display.
http://www.goalzero.com/p/147/goal-zero ... omad-7-kit
http://www.goalzero.com/p/147/goal-zero ... omad-7-kit
- March 31st, 2015, 11:24 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Best hand held gps
- Replies: 43
- Views: 13661
Re: Best hand held gps
FWIW, I just learned that there are portable solar panels for GPS units and smartphones, in fact, anything with a UPS port. Might just be the solution to the hunger for power most GPS units display.
http://www.goalzero.com/p/147/goal-zero ... omad-7-kit
http://www.goalzero.com/p/147/goal-zero ... omad-7-kit
- March 25th, 2015, 1:56 am
- Forum: Image Lab
- Topic: Need tips for buying wide-angle lens, please
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5052
Re: Need tips for buying wide-angle lens, please
We expect to see pictures posted from this lens in payment for our advising services! A wide angle in situ Lanthonotus photo will do. :lol: You people and your Lanthanotus obsession. I'm telling you, there is no such animal. :-) But I'll shortly post a few pix from our recent trip to Mount Kinabalu...
- March 24th, 2015, 8:44 pm
- Forum: Image Lab
- Topic: Need tips for buying wide-angle lens, please
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5052
Re: Need tips for buying wide-angle lens, please
Wow, thanks very much for taking the time to reply in such detail, guys! I've had a look at the Pentax Zoom Fisheye to Super Wide-Angle SMCP-DA 10-17mm f/3.5-4.5 ED (IF), and it looks very good indeed, especially its macro specs. Since it's on sale at our local online dealer here in Malaysia, I thin...
- March 24th, 2015, 7:33 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Dream find, GABOON!
- Replies: 18
- Views: 8759
Re: Dream find, GABOON!
NICE!
- March 24th, 2015, 7:32 am
- Forum: Image Lab
- Topic: Need tips for buying wide-angle lens, please
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5052
Need tips for buying wide-angle lens, please
Hi all, I shoot Pentax, and I'm thinking of buying a wide-angle zoom lens of about 10-20 mm focal length. What sort of specs would y'all recommend for nature photography (f/stop, zoom length, whatever you can think of)? I mostly shoot hand-held in bad light and without a flash :-) Thanks very much i...
- March 2nd, 2015, 9:27 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Borneo Sea Snake ID, please
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1980
Re: Borneo Sea Snake ID, please
Thank you, Paul! FWIW, I also asked Indraneil Das, who leans towards Hydrophis brooki.
- March 2nd, 2015, 1:33 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Borneo Sea Snake ID, please
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1980
Borneo Sea Snake ID, please
Hi all, I'm really terrible with sea snakes ... would someone please kindly ID this critter? A friend found it at a beach close to Lundu, western Sarawak, Borneo. Thanks very much in advance! Hans http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a260/Hans_Breuer/New%20Main%20Album%20from%201106/image_zpscd3duqtv.j...
- February 10th, 2015, 3:12 am
- Forum: Mammal Forum
- Topic: Mammals of the Pantanal, Brazil: Jaguars and more
- Replies: 6
- Views: 17024
Re: Mammals of the Pantanal, Brazil: Jaguars and more
Awesome. Thank you very much!
- February 9th, 2015, 11:47 pm
- Forum: Image Lab
- Topic: Red Tail Green Ratsnake .....
- Replies: 3
- Views: 13940
Re: Red Tail Green Ratsnake .....
Very lifelike!
- February 9th, 2015, 11:45 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: How to Hunt Rattlesnakes (WikiHow)
- Replies: 52
- Views: 16833
- February 5th, 2015, 12:46 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Herp Movie (another movie added)
- Replies: 21
- Views: 8438
Re: Herp Movie (2nd movie added)
Congrats!
- February 4th, 2015, 4:52 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Thailand/Cambodia January 2015
- Replies: 18
- Views: 6842