4th installment from NZ - fern, lion cubs and a bus driver!

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4th installment from NZ - fern, lion cubs and a bus driver!

Postby sheepie on Thu Dec 22, 2005 2:20 pm

Back from a week in Rotorua and I've lost count of the pics I've taken!

Here's a quick selection (I'm leaving the typical Rotorua shots of mud pools etc until I get home and can work on them a bit ;) )...

Best one so far:
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Lucas (Little Sheepie) with some new friends:
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Not a good shot at all, but you just had to be there ;) :
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Postby johnd on Thu Dec 22, 2005 3:15 pm

Love the fern Sheepie. I assume this is a macro shot?
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Postby leek on Thu Dec 22, 2005 5:06 pm

Nice shots Leon... Must've been a thrill for Lucas to get up close to a big cat like that...
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Postby stubbsy on Thu Dec 22, 2005 5:42 pm

Leon

#1 is greate as is the last one, but I must comment on the clever way you've snuck a shot on with Amanda in it. Does she know?
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Postby birddog114 on Thu Dec 22, 2005 6:12 pm

Leon,
We missed you overhere :( :(
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Postby sheepie on Thu Dec 22, 2005 7:22 pm

johnd wrote:Love the fern Sheepie. I assume this is a macro shot?

hehe - would you believe the 12-24dx??? :shock:

Yeah, I know - not the type of lens you'd expect to use taking this type of shot. But hell, it works ;)
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Postby mudder on Thu Dec 22, 2005 9:19 pm

Wow, the fern frond is with the 12-24??? Just goes to show one should never limit themselves to preconceived ideas with their lenses... Great detail...

That would have been an experience with that lion cub, he'll remember that for a long time... I know I would...
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Postby johnd on Thu Dec 22, 2005 9:31 pm

sheepie wrote:
johnd wrote:Love the fern Sheepie. I assume this is a macro shot?

hehe - would you believe the 12-24dx??? :shock:



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Postby Matt. K on Thu Dec 22, 2005 10:20 pm

Does anybody travel by bus over there?
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Postby nito on Thu Dec 22, 2005 10:57 pm

sheepie, everytime you post nz shots it makes me wanna go for another holiday at those majestic islands. :D
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Postby sheepie on Sat Dec 24, 2005 4:50 am

nito wrote:sheepie, everytime you post nz shots it makes me wanna go for another holiday at those majestic islands. :D

I've decided to come back more often than the once in four year trip this is - if only to increase my chances of some BLUE SKY!!!
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Postby avkomp on Tue Dec 27, 2005 12:01 am

love the fern curled up.
nice saturation and detail

Reminds me of a millepede

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Postby sheepie on Fri Jan 06, 2006 7:15 am

Now that I've had a bit of time to review my pics and processed a couple now, this is one of my all time favourites from the trip...

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