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It looks like you can get photograph any wildlife you want these days. I thought Snow Leopards were rare and hard to find, requiring weeks of looking and waiting. The guy in the video is a landscape photographer...
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davelumb wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15 2024 12:19 -The local guides do all the work, the photographers just claim the credit.....probably some radio tracking involved too although its likely that wont be mentionedIt looks like you can get photograph any wildlife you want these days. I thought Snow Leopards were rare and hard to find, requiring weeks of looking and waiting. The guy in the video is a landscape photographer...
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Mark_Houghton wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15 2024 12:39 -Yep. There are guides radioing in reports and the photographers speed off in Landcruisers to the animals. Heaton's latest video chasing Pallas cats is a good one for a laugh. Vehicles driving across snowy wastes on road tyres and getting stuck!davelumb wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15 2024 12:19 -The local guides do all the work, the photographers just claim the credit.....probably some radio tracking involved too although its likely that wont be mentionedIt looks like you can get photograph any wildlife you want these days. I thought Snow Leopards were rare and hard to find, requiring weeks of looking and waiting. The guy in the video is a landscape photographer...
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davelumb wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15 2024 13:05 -I can`t watch videos like that....end up shouting at the laptop screenMark_Houghton wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15 2024 12:39 -Yep. There are guides radioing in reports and the photographers speed off in Landcruisers to the animals. Heaton's latest video chasing Pallas cats is a good one for a laugh. Vehicles driving across snowy wastes on road tyres and getting stuck!davelumb wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15 2024 12:19 -The local guides do all the work, the photographers just claim the credit.....probably some radio tracking involved too although its likely that wont be mentionedIt looks like you can get photograph any wildlife you want these days. I thought Snow Leopards were rare and hard to find, requiring weeks of looking and waiting. The guy in the video is a landscape photographer...
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There's a workshop or tour to photograph everything these days. Even sheep! https://amybatemanphotography.com/store ... phy-tours/
If someone can make money from gullible people photographing animals like sheep which are accessible to pretty much everyone fair play to them. You should start "Lumbys Lonk Tours" mate and cash in while you can
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Mark_Houghton wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15 2024 13:12 -I always skip through most photography videos for the same reason.davelumb wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15 2024 13:05 -I can`t watch videos like that....end up shouting at the laptop screenMark_Houghton wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15 2024 12:39 -Yep. There are guides radioing in reports and the photographers speed off in Landcruisers to the animals. Heaton's latest video chasing Pallas cats is a good one for a laugh. Vehicles driving across snowy wastes on road tyres and getting stuck!davelumb wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15 2024 12:19 -The local guides do all the work, the photographers just claim the credit.....probably some radio tracking involved too although its likely that wont be mentionedIt looks like you can get photograph any wildlife you want these days. I thought Snow Leopards were rare and hard to find, requiring weeks of looking and waiting. The guy in the video is a landscape photographer...
https://www.davidgibbon.org/post/thomas ... -goes-live
There's a workshop or tour to photograph everything these days. Even sheep! https://amybatemanphotography.com/store ... phy-tours/
If someone can make money from gullible people photographing animals like sheep which are accessible to pretty much everyone fair play to them. You should start "Lumbys Lonk Tours" mate and cash in while you can
No way I'd start doing tours. That sort of thing is popular though.The 'street photography' ones must be money for jam.
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davelumb wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15 2024 13:26 -To be fair, the street ones could benefit those uncomfortable going out on their own photographing people in public, or who dont have an eye for those type of photographs and need some help. Being totally antisocial (probably got agoraphobia tbh ) its not a type of photography i`d want to pursue these days.Mark_Houghton wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15 2024 13:12 -I always skip through most photography videos for the same reason.davelumb wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15 2024 13:05 -I can`t watch videos like that....end up shouting at the laptop screenMark_Houghton wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15 2024 12:39 -Yep. There are guides radioing in reports and the photographers speed off in Landcruisers to the animals. Heaton's latest video chasing Pallas cats is a good one for a laugh. Vehicles driving across snowy wastes on road tyres and getting stuck!davelumb wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15 2024 12:19 -The local guides do all the work, the photographers just claim the credit.....probably some radio tracking involved too although its likely that wont be mentionedIt looks like you can get photograph any wildlife you want these days. I thought Snow Leopards were rare and hard to find, requiring weeks of looking and waiting. The guy in the video is a landscape photographer...
https://www.davidgibbon.org/post/thomas ... -goes-live
There's a workshop or tour to photograph everything these days. Even sheep! https://amybatemanphotography.com/store ... phy-tours/
If someone can make money from gullible people photographing animals like sheep which are accessible to pretty much everyone fair play to them. You should start "Lumbys Lonk Tours" mate and cash in while you can
No way I'd start doing tours. That sort of thing is popular though.The 'street photography' ones must be money for jam.
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Mark_Houghton wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15 2024 14:06 -I've seen that on Talkphotography where people say they want to do street photography but feel intimidated by people. I'm not comfortable with horses(unpredictable kicking biting things ) but I don't want to go on an equine photography course!davelumb wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15 2024 13:26 -To be fair, the street ones could benefit those uncomfortable going out on their own photographing people in public, or who dont have an eye for those type of photographs and need some help. Being totally antisocial (probably got agoraphobia tbh ) its not a type of photography i`d want to pursue these days.Mark_Houghton wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15 2024 13:12 -I always skip through most photography videos for the same reason.davelumb wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15 2024 13:05 -I can`t watch videos like that....end up shouting at the laptop screenMark_Houghton wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15 2024 12:39 -Yep. There are guides radioing in reports and the photographers speed off in Landcruisers to the animals. Heaton's latest video chasing Pallas cats is a good one for a laugh. Vehicles driving across snowy wastes on road tyres and getting stuck!davelumb wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15 2024 12:19 -The local guides do all the work, the photographers just claim the credit.....probably some radio tracking involved too although its likely that wont be mentionedIt looks like you can get photograph any wildlife you want these days. I thought Snow Leopards were rare and hard to find, requiring weeks of looking and waiting. The guy in the video is a landscape photographer...
https://www.davidgibbon.org/post/thomas ... -goes-live
There's a workshop or tour to photograph everything these days. Even sheep! https://amybatemanphotography.com/store ... phy-tours/
If someone can make money from gullible people photographing animals like sheep which are accessible to pretty much everyone fair play to them. You should start "Lumbys Lonk Tours" mate and cash in while you can
No way I'd start doing tours. That sort of thing is popular though.The 'street photography' ones must be money for jam.
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Didn't Hugh Miles photo Snow Leopards before producing APFA and Catching The Impossible, no jokes about MB please
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Didn't Hugh Miles photo Snow Leopards before producing APFA and Catching The Impossible, no jokes about MB please
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Monts wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15 2024 14:37 -He did. https://hughmiles9.blogspot.com/2016/11 ... pards.htmlDidn't Hugh Miles photo Snow Leopards before producing APFA and Catching The Impossible, no jokes about MB please
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davelumb wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15 2024 14:41 -Monts wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15 2024 14:37 -He did. https://hughmiles9.blogspot.com/2016/11 ... pards.htmlDidn't Hugh Miles photo Snow Leopards before producing APFA and Catching The Impossible, no jokes about MB please
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davelumb wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15 2024 14:32 -Cattle can be just as bad.....once had a tattered, bloodstained chap appear in my swim up in Scotland who had gone through (not over) a barbed wire fence to escape a herd of daft young cows , I had to calm him down with a brew
I've seen that on Talkphotography where people say they want to do street photography but feel intimidated by people. I'm not comfortable with horses(unpredictable kicking biting things ) but I don't want to go on an equine photography course!
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Mark_Houghton wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15 2024 16:02 -I'm not keen on cattle either. Clumsy beasts. I mentioned my distrust of cows to a dairy farmer who said that he'd never had any trouble with them. Apart from one breaking his ribs!davelumb wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15 2024 14:32 -Cattle can be just as bad.....once had a tattered, bloodstained chap appear in my swim up in Scotland who had gone through (not over) a barbed wire fence to escape a herd of daft young cows , I had to calm him down with a brew
I've seen that on Talkphotography where people say they want to do street photography but feel intimidated by people. I'm not comfortable with horses(unpredictable kicking biting things ) but I don't want to go on an equine photography course!
Mind you, I've been headbutted on the knees and shins by a few sheep now. They aren't smart enough to know they can run round you and try to run through you.
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davelumb wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15 2024 16:30 -Yeah sheep are pretty dimMark_Houghton wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15 2024 16:02 -I'm not keen on cattle either. Clumsy beasts. I mentioned my distrust of cows to a dairy farmer who said that he'd never had any trouble with them. Apart from one breaking his ribs!davelumb wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15 2024 14:32 -Cattle can be just as bad.....once had a tattered, bloodstained chap appear in my swim up in Scotland who had gone through (not over) a barbed wire fence to escape a herd of daft young cows , I had to calm him down with a brew
I've seen that on Talkphotography where people say they want to do street photography but feel intimidated by people. I'm not comfortable with horses(unpredictable kicking biting things ) but I don't want to go on an equine photography course!
Mind you, I've been headbutted on the knees and shins by a few sheep now. They aren't smart enough to know they can run round you and try to run through you.
I had a fox run straight into my legs at a local nature reserve years ago.....it was being chased by a dominant male around mating time and was so intent on getting away it ran straight into me
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Mark_Houghton wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15 2024 16:53 -
I had a fox run straight into my legs at a local nature reserve years ago.....it was being chased by a dominant male around mating time and was so intent on getting away it ran straight into me
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Mark_Houghton wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15 2024 16:02 -Never been bothered by cows until a couple of years back what I described as big brown cows where on our lake and they had young calf’s with them hiding in the long grass well you can all guess what happened when I got close to there calf’s they chased me the buggers shat myselfdavelumb wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15 2024 14:32 -Cattle can be just as bad.....once had a tattered, bloodstained chap appear in my swim up in Scotland who had gone through (not over) a barbed wire fence to escape a herd of daft young cows , I had to calm him down with a brew
I've seen that on Talkphotography where people say they want to do street photography but feel intimidated by people. I'm not comfortable with horses(unpredictable kicking biting things ) but I don't want to go on an equine photography course!
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whitey79 wrote: ↑Fri Feb 16 2024 07:57 -Mark_Houghton wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15 2024 16:02 -Never been bothered by cows until a couple of years back what I described as big brown cows where on our lake and they had young calf’s with them hiding in the long grass well you can all guess what happened when I got close to there calf’s they chased me the buggers shat myselfdavelumb wrote: ↑Thu Feb 15 2024 14:32 -Cattle can be just as bad.....once had a tattered, bloodstained chap appear in my swim up in Scotland who had gone through (not over) a barbed wire fence to escape a herd of daft young cows , I had to calm him down with a brew
I've seen that on Talkphotography where people say they want to do street photography but feel intimidated by people. I'm not comfortable with horses(unpredictable kicking biting things ) but I don't want to go on an equine photography course!
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Cows can be dangerous - https://www.northernfarmer.co.uk/news/2 ... pled-cows/
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davelumb wrote: ↑Fri Feb 16 2024 13:08 -Cows can be dangerous - https://www.northernfarmer.co.uk/news/2 ... pled-cows/