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Great humming bird shots, did you use a tripod. I haven't mastered my S23 ultra yet. Getting better but still have a ways to go. Did get a few Gator shots and another Great Blue this spring before we left FL
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Great humming bird shots, did you use a tripod. I haven't mastered my S23 ultra yet. Getting better but still have a ways to go. Did get a few Gator shots and another Great Blue this spring before we left FL
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No tripod for these. The hardest part was getting to the window without too much movement otherwise they would fly away.

How close were you to the Herron and gator?
 
Here is the best I could do on the Northern Lights, all the way down here in East TN.....30 miles or so South of Knoxville, TN Shot from my Pixel 7 in night mode, with the bedroom window open and around midnight....
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No tripod for these. The hardest part was getting to the window without too much movement otherwise they would fly away.

How close were you to the Herron and gator?
Neither were terribly far, the gator about 30ft and the blue slightly further, maybe 50 ft. I did use the zoom on both.
 
LOL.......that's about 470' closer than I would want to be to the gator! :eekgif:

Lol he was in the water, I wasn't. Was up on a roadside bridge. It would have to be one agile and fast Gator to get up there. Besides if they can't swallow you they leave you alone (or break you into pieces :croc:)

We had company and they wanted to see Gators up close so we took them to a spot that's known for lots of Gators just it side of Myakka State Park
 
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Lol he was in the water, I wasn't. Was up on a roadside bridge. It would have to be one agile and fast Gator to get up there. Besides if they can't swallow you they leave you alone (or break you into pieces :croc:)

We had company and they wanted to see Gators up close so we took them to a spot that's known for lots of Gators just it side of Myakka State Park

I understand.....and I'll just say this. When I was a little kid, and I went to bed at night, I would pull the covers up over my head to "keep the Monsters away" from me while I slept. As an adult, I realized that I needed to up my game plan to something more workable. In the nuclear industry and dealing with radiation exposure (can also be used for "monsters" and alligators, bears, snakes, sharks, etc) the terminology is "Time, Distance, and Shielding" :nod:
 
Really great pics! That looks like a huge gator! When we went to Gatorland in FL that was an experience. On a walkway bridge looking down some of those gators were huge. When we first went to my Uncles place on a lake near Orlando.There were signs warning not to leash your pets alone outside and don't walk near the lake at night. Had never seen or experienced that kind of thing before. I understand down in the Everglades they have snakes that can eat small gators.

Now in central Texas all we had to worry about was large rattlers, coral snakes, fire ants, black widows, tarantulas (wolf spiders) and scorpions! LOL's
 
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I understand.....and I'll just say this. When I was a little kid, and I went to bed at night, I would pull the covers up over my head to "keep the Monsters away" from me while I slept. As an adult, I realized that I needed to up my game plan to something more workable. In the nuclear industry and dealing with radiation exposure (can also be used for "monsters" and alligators, bears, snakes, sharks, etc) the terminology is "Time, Distance, and Shielding" :nod:

Monsters from the Id?
 
Really great pics! That looks like a huge gator! When we went to Gatorland in FL that was an experience. On a walkway bridge looking down some of those gators were huge. When we first went to my Uncles place on a lake near Orlando.There were signs warning not to leash your pets alone outside and don't walk near the lake at night. Had never seen or experienced that kind of thing before. I understand down in the Everglades they have snakes that can eat small gators.

Now in central Texas all we had to worry about was large rattlers, coral snakes, fire ants, black widows, tarantulas (wolf spiders) and scorpions! LOL's

A few years back there was a gator that staked out a Motorhome across the road on the big pond (the park calls it a lake) The gator knew they had a small dog and would sit there daily...fast fwd to the day it was time to remove the Gator.. I took video ,it was so fun to watch these guys catch and remove..that one was just over 12 ft !

It doesn't take long for another one to move in. It looks like there are always about 4 different gators living in the pond. They don't remove them unlesss they become an issue and pose danger.
 
Monsters from the Id?

Every Sat night the "Bijou Picture Show" was on TV, starting at 10:30. Most of the movies were the old school "Monster" movies.....Frankenstein, The Wolfman, Dracula, etc, etc. So I would sit alone in the TV/family room watching them and then go to bed. But before I went to bed, I would turn on the lights in the family room, then the kitchen, next to it, then the hallway, then my bedroom overhead light, then a reading light that hung from the headboard of my bed. Then I'd go back and turn off the TV and start my trip back to the bed, turning off the lights that I'd just turned on, in sequence.....family room, kitchen, hallway, overhead light, then get in bed and completely cover myself up with the sheet or blanket over my head. Then, and only then, I'd stick one hand out from under the sheet and reach up and turn out the reading light on the headboard and as quickly as I could, get my hand back into the safe zone of my over the head blanket. I'm sitting here smiling....almost laughing as I type this out because of the memories of that as well as my completely thought out/perfect plan. It was perfect because.........well, here I am 60 years later and the Monsters never got me!
 
Legs went limp boarding the USS North Carolina when I looked down and saw all the gators waiting for easy lunch. There weren't enough railings to hold on to.

Years back was in Orlando for business and host showed me a nice sized pond with kids swimming around. I asked about gators and he said wait until later. Went to lunch at a golf club and four foursomes were waiting for a big gator to move - he didn't seem to want to. There they had floating golf balls and you drove them into a lake. I asked how they get them back? Guy in scuba gear with a caged underwater collector. Night return to the lake and headlights shining on the pond the kids were swimming in daytime - all those red eye pairs popping up and reflected off the headlights - NO THANKS.

And [MENTION=21739]xrated[/MENTION], I used to sleep with head covered occasionally peeking out but that was from watching too many monsters from outer space movies.
 
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Every Sat night the "Bijou Picture Show" was on TV, starting at 10:30. Most of the movies were the old school "Monster" movies.....Frankenstein, The Wolfman, Dracula, etc, etc. So I would sit alone in the TV/family room watching them and then go to bed. But before I went to bed, I would turn on the lights in the family room, then the kitchen, next to it, then the hallway, then my bedroom overhead light, then a reading light that hung from the headboard of my bed. Then I'd go back and turn off the TV and start my trip back to the bed, turning off the lights that I'd just turned on, in sequence.....family room, kitchen, hallway, overhead light, then get in bed and completely cover myself up with the sheet or blanket over my head. Then, and only then, I'd stick one hand out from under the sheet and reach up and turn out the reading light on the headboard and as quickly as I could, get my hand back into the safe zone of my over the head blanket. I'm sitting here smiling....almost laughing as I type this out because of the memories of that as well as my completely thought out/perfect plan. It was perfect because.........well, here I am 60 years later and the Monsters never got me!


For me it was Nightmare Theater and Sammy Terry WTTV Ch4 Bloomington / Indianapolis. :laugh::laugh:

I haven't had a lot of wildlife stand still long enough for me to get a good picture. Except the other morning I came out of the RV with my morning coffee and a Doe walked by our site. Looked around the other side of our RV and she had had twin fawns. They kept staggering around looking for mama. Cute little things. Now pretty much every night we are visited by Doe's walking by in the field behind our RV. Here's a vid, I had the camera on full zoom

https://youtu.be/hevbjXhPNbE
 
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As a kid I only watched one horror movie - at a theater with my brother and sister (I am/was the middle child). I do not remember the name of the movie. The movie was so scary to me that I spent about half of the time in the rest room. I was about 7 or so, maybe younger. Never went to another movie of the type again. Now the Wolfman and Dracula movies never bothered me....
 
For me it was Nightmare Theater and Sammy Terry WTTV Ch4 Bloomington / Indianapolis. :laugh::laugh:

I haven't had a lot of wildlife stand still long enough for me to get a good picture. Except the other morning I came out of the RV with my morning coffee and a Doe walked by our site. Looked around the other side of our RV and she had had twin fawns. They kept staggering around looking for mama. Cute little things. Now pretty much every night we are visited by Doe's walking by in the field behind our RV. Here's a vid, I had the camera on full zoom

https://youtu.be/hevbjXhPNbE

THose Fawns can't be very old!
 

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