The group of ibex (Goats eh Tim)were very frisky today and think one of the young females had come into season,The rut isnt until the end of the year so was suprised when the males were all over her literally,She wanted none of it so lots of locked horns amd a couple of times one reared up onto the back legs and slammed down onto the poor unfortunate standing near by-Great to watch and cant wait until the end of the year when the big boys will be at it
Canon 20D 70-200
Not a silly question at all John, I drive most of the way which is about 50 miles from my home and this was taken about 30 mins ( 1 hr in the snow) walk from the car,The weather was fantastic today so was disappointed that everytime action took place they had gone back into the shade,There are 3 areas of snow left and in 2 weeks all will be gone,Thousands of crocus already coming thru,You can actually see the sun line in the image all of 3 feet to being a stunner
I see you have headed away from the lake and back to the mountains for more Ibex stuff. Nice behavioural shot although the composition could be improved (although I expect this is a difficult shot to prepare for due to the dynamic nature of the subjects). However must be great to witness this type of behaviour and challenging to get photographs off. I guess a bit like rutting deer in the UK. Keep at it and good luck getting more shots.
Nice behavoural shot, but as you say three feet from a stunner. I like the image though, and the amount of effort you are putting into getting images of the Ibex is really beginning to pay off.
A great behaviour image, I wonder how it would work if cropped to a portrait (if you have enough pixels of course), I find that the cliff face in the bg is a bit too dominant, you don't give any exposure details but I wonder if a wider aperture would have helped by throwing it further OOF?
Things were happening quickly so did the best i could,I would have liked to be more to the right for lighting and the background but had bushes there so that was that, I was close to these guys the 70-200 was set at 75mm and used F7.1 to try to keep both in focus and have a reasonable shutter speed,The first time these guys did this caught me completly off guard and lost the head off the the one standing up fo made sure there was room if they did it again,I think if nothing else it shows the colouring of the animal and rocks are very similar and this can make them difficult to find,They are just starting to moult so will start getting scuffy so may have to leave them for a couple of weeks
Cheers Dave, you were close, thanks for the additional info, helps complete the picture if you see what I mean, which makes this an outstanding behaviour image.
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Rene de Heer
Baz
great shot of the Ibex. I am going to ask a silly question.Did you photograph the picture from a car or did you hike up there?
John
Aberdeen
Another great bit of action well captured!
David
Cheers
Malcolm
Tim
I see you have headed away from the lake and back to the mountains for more Ibex stuff. Nice behavioural shot although the composition could be improved (although I expect this is a difficult shot to prepare for due to the dynamic nature of the subjects). However must be great to witness this type of behaviour and challenging to get photographs off. I guess a bit like rutting deer in the UK. Keep at it and good luck getting more shots.
cheers
Sean
cheers
Sean
Nice behavoural shot, but as you say three feet from a stunner. I like the image though, and the amount of effort you are putting into getting images of the Ibex is really beginning to pay off.
Well Done Dave.
Regards
Rob
A great behaviour image, I wonder how it would work if cropped to a portrait (if you have enough pixels of course), I find that the cliff face in the bg is a bit too dominant, you don't give any exposure details but I wonder if a wider aperture would have helped by throwing it further OOF?