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[Gordon]

I recently camped out at Werrikimbe NP and went for a 55km mountain bike ride on Dec 30th, and around the northern limit of the ride around the location of Kookaburra came across this python, which was a good 1.7m long and quite a willing subject.





I had to be quick with the shutter for this!




Both photos using the Nikon 105 and built in flash on the D70. Processing was a size reduction, slight D-lighting and sharpening, plus a darkening of the road which was a bit bright under flash.

I also saw a lyrebird and a quoll on the ride, plus a few fireflies in the evening. There are a LOT of march flies around there in summer, every time I stopped it was a constant battle to stop them biting.

Gordon

[Big Red]

its a nice bright colour, maybe recently shed its skin ?

[Gordon]

Yes Shane, I suspect it had. It was quite nice to touch, but it took off in a hurry when I did! I think its had a tail injury at some stage.

Gordon

[shaunus]

nice work gordon,

as for me i don't like snakes to much and would have taken off like rocket if i saw that, or if i 600mm with 2x tc and a d2x in high speed crop mode, then i might take a couple of snaps.

[Oneputt]

Excellent Gordon Like you I have found the old python to be very cooperative for photos, they almost seem to pose.

[moggy]

Nice shots Gordon, the colours show up very well.

Bob.

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[blacknstormy]

Nice shots Gordon - pythons are truely beautiful snakes
Well done

[Manta]

Mmmmmmm...snakes......love 'em.

Great shots Gordon. Good to make use of a willing subject too. I take it the lyrebird and quoll weren't anywhere near as co-operative. They would have made for some interesting shots seeing they are so rare and hard to find.

[Gordon]

Mmmmmmm...snakes......love 'em.

Great shots Gordon. Good to make use of a willing subject too. I take it the lyrebird and quoll weren't anywhere near as co-operative. They would have made for some interesting shots seeing they are so rare and hard to find.

Thanks Simon, yea the quoll ran across the track about 30 m in front of me and had vanished in the undergrowth by the time I got to where it had been. The Lyrebird took off when I was a lot closer ( as did another one 2 days later west of Woolgoolga)... but I have managed photos of them before with a telephoto. I'm not entirely happy with them, but ok I guess for a difficult subject.

Gordon

[ozimax]

Nice shots here Gordon, yep, Woolgoolga is the bird capital of Oz no doubt about it, millions of the critters wake me up every morning, but I've yet to see a lyrebird.

You need to come down to the next mini meet we have at Coffs (not sure when)

Max