Image taken on: Mon Apr 29, 2013 10:34
Focal length: 300 mm
Shutter speed: 1/800 sec
Aperture: f/5
ISO speed: 800
White-balance: Auto
Flash: No
Camera make: NIKON CORPORATION
Camera model: D600
Exposure mode: Aperture priority
Exposure compensation: -1/3 EV
Metering mode: Centre Weighted Average
I guess some people are getting a bit bored with Australian/New Zealand pictures, but I still have four I want to share with you, and this is the first. There are four orders of reptiles, Squamates (snakes and lizards), crocodiles, turtles, and tuataras. Tuataras belong to the order Rhynchocephalia, most of whose members died out in the age of the dinosaurs. They are born with three eyes, and are endemic to New Zealand. I desperately wanted to see one, but being there in April (the seasonal equivalent to October), I did not think my chances of a wild or semi-wild one were great. However, several zoos in New Zealand have them, and a sob story about being a professional herpetologist and having come half way around the world to see one worked on a helpful zoo keeper. This picture is carefully cropped to keep her fingers out of the shot!
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6 repliesFocal length: 300 mm
Shutter speed: 1/800 sec
Aperture: f/5
ISO speed: 800
White-balance: Auto
Flash: No
Camera make: NIKON CORPORATION
Camera model: D600
Exposure mode: Aperture priority
Exposure compensation: -1/3 EV
Metering mode: Centre Weighted Average
I guess some people are getting a bit bored with Australian/New Zealand pictures, but I still have four I want to share with you, and this is the first. There are four orders of reptiles, Squamates (snakes and lizards), crocodiles, turtles, and tuataras. Tuataras belong to the order Rhynchocephalia, most of whose members died out in the age of the dinosaurs. They are born with three eyes, and are endemic to New Zealand. I desperately wanted to see one, but being there in April (the seasonal equivalent to October), I did not think my chances of a wild or semi-wild one were great. However, several zoos in New Zealand have them, and a sob story about being a professional herpetologist and having come half way around the world to see one worked on a helpful zoo keeper. This picture is carefully cropped to keep her fingers out of the shot!
Thanks for looking.
David
Bob
Great portrait, and a very complimentary BG too. Smart shot, David.
Andy...
Keep them coming, you ologist always produce the goods.