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My thoughts keep coming back to a story I read about an African photographer who hid partly submerged in a watering hole to get close up's of Lions gathering and drinking. After two days he got his photo's and managed to retreat without being eaten by Lions or Crocodiles, I think he may have needed a shower though...
One of my neighbours works as a ranger in Grizedale Forrest, he has shown me photo's of the semi wild Wolves they have in an enclosure in the forrest. He has some very natural looking photo's of them, quite convincing. Not sure what that has to do with anything but I just thought somebody might be interested. LOL
Long lenses are never long enough, I had a 400-f4 with the dedicated X2 multiplier on DX which equated to 1200mm f8 but even that wasn't long or fast enough for me. So I gave up on long lens photography, since I have no yearning to sit in a pond for two days to capture a photograph of a bird of ANY species I have also given up on targeting birds, If one has the audacity to fly nearby then I might take a snap shot, as was the case when the Red Kite was hunting in the middle of a car racing venue recently.
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Robert.