[J Darcy]

Had a walk out today with the old camera. Bit of a funny day. :blink:
First of all i balls'ed up a photo of a fox in long grass as i didnt have the camera on manual focus. If i had have done i would have had a great photo. Probably my best fox photo if im honest, as i don't have many good ones.
So then i decided to venture into a local estate to try and capture photos of Red in the Rut. From half a mile away i saw the "big boy" .God he was huge, just laying down without a care in the world. I wandered slightly off the footpath and approached to get a few photos when i heard the crack of a gun! :o About 200 yards above me, up on the slope three "stalkers" must have been shooting right in my direction. Now, im all for fair chase but these people were shooting park deer, in mid-rut, very near a footpath and shooting downhill towards a major road...on a bloody saturday too. It just smacked of amateurishness. If, indeed, there even is such a word.
So after the near deadly shooting experience i decided to have a walk to find some hares. I pi$sed about and finally found one, but , like a naive tenderfoot i bumbled too close and 4ucked that photo up too. The hare wasn't alarmed and everything was set . He stopped five yards after jumping and looked at me, then decided to stretch. The only thing is....there was a twatting thistle in front of his head! :(
So another days photo taking ruined!!! :icon_redface: I'm so glad i was on my own, embarrassing would be the word had anyone been with me!! :clapper: :clapper:

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[WILF]

J Darcy, on Oct 17 2009, 03:19 PM, said:

From half a mile away i saw the "big boy" .God he was huge, just laying down without a care in the world. I wandered slightly off the footpath and approached to get a few photos

What have I told you about stalking those black men!! :tongue2:

[Kay]

Not had a much better day myself, some idiots racing about on petrol go carts , one hell of a racket , only up there as i spotted 4 hinds while on the bus back from town in the same place as i got them last Sat , but naturally they & everything else had pissed off by the time i had got home & back out again

Cracking pic all the same , something i have never seen here a hare :thumbs:

[Bootsha]

Kay, on Oct 17 2009, 05:26 PM, said:

Not had a much better day myself, some idiots racing about on petrol go carts , one hell of a racket , only up there as i spotted 4 hinds while on the bus back from town in the same place as i got them last Sat , but naturally they & everything else had pissed off by the time i had got home & back out again

Cracking pic all the same , something i have never seen here a hare :thumbs:

Is that you in your avatar Kay ?, looks familiar thats all lol

[stealthy1]

That is one badly placed thistle :D

[Tis TM]

J Darcy, on Oct 17 2009, 03:19 PM, said:

Had a walk out today with the old camera. Bit of a funny day. :blink:
First of all i balls'ed up a photo of a fox in long grass as i didnt have the camera on manual focus. If i had have done i would have had a great photo. Probably my best fox photo if im honest, as i don't have many good ones.
So then i decided to venture into a local estate to try and capture photos of Red in the Rut. From half a mile away i saw the "big boy" .God he was huge, just laying down without a care in the world. I wandered slightly off the footpath and approached to get a few photos when i heard the crack of a gun! :o About 200 yards above me, up on the slope three "stalkers" must have been shooting right in my direction. Now, im all for fair chase but these people were shooting park deer, in mid-rut, very near a footpath and shooting downhill towards a major road...on a bloody saturday too. It just smacked of amateurishness. If, indeed, there even is such a word.
So after the near deadly shooting experience i decided to have a walk to find some hares. I pi$sed about and finally found one, but , like a naive tenderfoot i bumbled too close and 4ucked that photo up too. The hare wasn't alarmed and everything was set . He stopped five yards after jumping and looked at me, then decided to stretch. The only thing is....there was a twatting thistle in front of his head! :(
So another days photo taking ruined!!! :icon_redface: I'm so glad i was on my own, embarrassing would be the word had anyone been with me!! :clapper: :clapper:

:laugh: He looks like Big Wig from Watership down!! :laugh:

[MuttleMcTuttle]

Well, at least you saw the animals, even if you didn't get the shots you wanted... Most of us never even get close enough to see them!

[ghillies]

sods law lol.. worst is click..click..noooo buffers full! lol...then it runs of and you get the empty spot they were in.

[Rod&dog]

Sorry Darcy even Park deer have to be managed. Local estate has a deer park here,, They employ gamekeepers to ensure the deer on the couple of thousand acres of pure deer park holding red and fallow and more wildlife are all kept in good nick, By stalking.

[J Darcy]

Rod&dog, on Oct 19 2009, 12:51 PM, said:

Sorry Darcy even Park deer have to be managed. Local estate has a deer park here,, They employ gamekeepers to ensure the deer on the couple of thousand acres of pure deer park holding red and fallow and more wildlife are all kept in good nick, By stalking.

yes....i know that mate. :notworthy: It was not about why...but how this was taken on. If the bullet had have hit some poor soul on the road then all stalkers would have been tarred. Safety, in stalking, is the top priority. Its the most important thing a stalker must think about. :victory: good Hunting.

[J Darcy]

One of the pics from saturday. But there was far too much dry grass covering the hares to get anything what i wanted out of them all. Maybe one photo out of the 70+ i took will be good enough for what i want. You look at the images on the camera and they always look better than on the computer screen!! Still, we must keep soldiering on...... keep Snapping Folks.....JD

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[MuttleMcTuttle]

Might not be quite what you wanted, but that's still a good shot in spite of the grass... shows how the hare in its natural environment, and the eye is clear and sharp so it really grabs your attention. Take a break from hares and do some landscapes... :rolleyes:

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[foxdropper]

Take a break from the camera and do some hunting ,messer .lol,Probably old Vim on that ridge mate having spent months in reconaisance and you fecked it all up in an hour . :clapper:

[byron]

J Darcy, on Oct 17 2009, 03:19 PM, said:

Had a walk out today with the old camera. Bit of a funny day. :blink:
First of all i balls'ed up a photo of a fox in long grass as i didnt have the camera on manual focus. If i had have done i would have had a great photo. Probably my best fox photo if im honest, as i don't have many good ones.
So then i decided to venture into a local estate to try and capture photos of Red in the Rut. From half a mile away i saw the "big boy" .God he was huge, just laying down without a care in the world. I wandered slightly off the footpath and approached to get a few photos when i heard the crack of a gun! :o About 200 yards above me, up on the slope three "stalkers" must have been shooting right in my direction. Now, im all for fair chase but these people were shooting park deer, in mid-rut, very near a footpath and shooting downhill towards a major road...on a bloody saturday too. It just smacked of amateurishness. If, indeed, there even is such a word.
So after the near deadly shooting experience i decided to have a walk to find some hares. I pi$sed about and finally found one, but , like a naive tenderfoot i bumbled too close and 4ucked that photo up too. The hare wasn't alarmed and everything was set . He stopped five yards after jumping and looked at me, then decided to stretch. The only thing is....there was a twatting thistle in front of his head! :(
So another days photo taking ruined!!! :icon_redface: I'm so glad i was on my own, embarrassing would be the word had anyone been with me!! :clapper: :clapper:

excuses..
excuses..
excuses''
just get out out there charley. :clapper: :clapper:

[Kay]

J Darcy, on Oct 19 2009, 01:11 PM, said:

One of the pics from saturday. But there was far too much dry grass covering the hares to get anything what i wanted out of them all. Maybe one photo out of the 70+ i took will be good enough for what i want. You look at the images on the camera and they always look better than on the computer screen!! Still, we must keep soldiering on...... keep Snapping Folks.....JD

i missed this one , its rather nice were you laying down when you took this one ?