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Spotted Salamander #5190
09/05/06 11:37 AM
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JeffDinPA Offline OP
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Doing a little yard work, Very Little, and came across this large Salamander. Total length was probably about 5 inches, and he is very fat.





Thanks, Jeff
Re: Spotted Salamander [Re: JeffDinPA] #5191
09/06/06 10:38 AM
09/06/06 10:38 AM
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Nice capture Jeff. He seems very curious of your lens.
Did he hang around long?

Cheers,

Re: Spotted Salamander [Re: Scott] #5192
09/06/06 12:11 PM
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Thank you Scott.

He was unimpressed by me and my equipment:) I think this is less about curiosity and more about his best portrayal of a stick. He froze like that after I had chassed him back and forth a couple times. Then he sat like this for a few shots, then he was off again. The thing with these particular salamanders is they will secrete a boat load of slim as a defensive mechanism. If you try and handle them, you get it all over you, and then they pick up all kinds of debris. He had enough debris to start off, but had I pestered him, much more he would have started making a mess of the situation.


Thanks, Jeff
Re: Spotted Salamander [Re: JeffDinPA] #5193
09/13/06 02:57 PM
09/13/06 02:57 PM
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Hey Jeff,

This is a cool shot - I love the very shallow DOF.

"I think this is less about curiosity and more about his best portrayal of a stick. "

LOL. Well said.

James

Re: Spotted Salamander [Re: James Morrissey] #5194
09/14/06 09:28 PM
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Thank you James. Even at f18 I still have a shallow DOF. I was close:) Fortunate for me at that point he chose to play "stick" had he been moving at all I would have lost it.


Thanks, Jeff
Re: Spotted Salamander [Re: JeffDinPA] #5195
09/16/06 03:34 PM
09/16/06 03:34 PM
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nice photo Jeff. Was it with the Tamron?

Laslo


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Re: Spotted Salamander [Re: lv1] #5196
09/16/06 11:38 PM
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Thanks Laslo.
Yes it was with the Tamron 90/2.8Di.


Thanks, Jeff

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