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Old 04-09-2020, 06:16 PM   #1
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Those Animals we see while RVing

I guess this forum will be best for chatting about all the birds and animals we encounter while doing the RV thing, going down the road.

I missed a lot of picture taking when we first started full timing it around the country. When I started taking pictures I was hooked. I’ve always been into computers (operating systems) since very early on.

Before we made our first RV trip I purchased a Sony desktop and flatbed scanner. The Sony was top of the line and very easy to transfer my pictures into from my cameras or developed pictures scanned by the flatbed. Once I started using the system for picture storing, I purchased a few photographic apps and was on my way to acquiring a vast pictorial record of our travels and the animals seen along the way.

I’ll kick this off with a few pictures from one of my first digital cameras.

These are turkey vultures on the Hurst Castle farmlands near San Simeon, CA. Click on them to enlarge.

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Old 04-09-2020, 08:08 PM   #2
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The dangerous wildlife we find at our doorsteps


From the wilderness of Sarasota Fl. three trailers and two TVs ago. Taken with a Sony Mavica (3" floppies and it still works) My first digital and I was hooked. We never camped without full hookups but I always managed to get some good shots of local birds and animals. Amazing what you can find if you look close.
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Old 04-09-2020, 08:29 PM   #3
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A few more from around the same time (Mid 1990's)

Great Blue Heron

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Apple Snail laying eggs at night

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The dangers you expose yourself to in wildlife photography can be exhilarating.
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Old 04-09-2020, 08:48 PM   #4
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I was drug kicking and screaming from my film cameras. My first digital was the Nikon D-40.... and haven't looked back, smiling all the way!!! We retired in 2013 and started (and continue) our fulltime journey. We enjoy looking and reliving our travels through photography as much as taking them.

Here is one from Anza Borrego Desert, California....
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Old 04-09-2020, 08:54 PM   #5
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I was drug kicking and screaming from my film cameras. My first digital was the Nikon D-40.... and haven't looked back, smiling all the way!!! We retired in 2013 and started (and continue) our fulltime journey. We enjoy looking and reliving our travels through photography as much as taking them.

Here is one from Anza Borrego Desert, California....
Beautiful animal. We saw some very similar while on a boat ride on the Colorado but never got close enough for a great picture like this one.
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Old 04-10-2020, 03:27 AM   #6
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Bush Gardens, Tampa, FL.


When this big guy saw me he turned and looked right at me as if posing.


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Old 04-10-2020, 09:00 AM   #7
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The dangerous wildlife we find at our doorsteps


From the wilderness of Sarasota Fl. three trailers and two TVs ago. Taken with a Sony Mavica (3" floppies and it still works) My first digital and I was hooked. We never camped without full hookups but I always managed to get some good shots of local birds and animals. Amazing what you can find if you look close.
Back in the late 1990's I was a construction project manager for then wildey growing Blockbuster Inc. They gave us those Sony camera's with the floppy drive. I still remember the "click", grind, grind, grind, then about 15 seconds later you take another picture. Had to carry a LOT of batteries with me. One of the first pictures was the new boat we bought in 1997 I think.
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Old 04-10-2020, 09:22 AM   #8
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Pulled over to the side of a country road in Pendleton, Oregon... took this out the window of the truck.
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Grazing at the water hole, Marlin Perkins would be thrilled at such a find.
Two legged animals count?
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Old 04-10-2020, 06:06 AM   #10
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Grazing at the water hole, Marlin Perkins would be thrilled at such a find.
Two legged animals count?
Only the "party" subspecies which you have captured so well!
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Grazing at the water hole, Marlin Perkins would be thrilled at such a find.
Not to mention Jim -- he was the one who always had to wrestle them down while Marlon stood way back and narrated, remember?

I wonder if Mutual of Omaha sells #MeToo insurance?
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Stub Stewart State Park, Oregon. Fun RV Park and a great Disc Golf course.
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Not to mention Jim -- he was the one who always had to wrestle them down while Marlon stood way back and narrated, remember?

I wonder if Mutual of Omaha sells #MeToo insurance?
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Before we made our first RV trip I purchased a Sony desktop and flatbed scanner. The Sony was top of the line and very easy to transfer my pictures into from my cameras or developed pictures scanned by the flatbed.
What a coincidence.

Our first trip in our very own rig was a grand tour of the US in 1999. Our youngest was 10, so we had to homeschool him. The lower bunk was his work area, boasting a desktop Mac IIci with a clunky CRT. His English lessons consisted of keeping a more or less daily journal on it, which I would (manually) convert to HTML and load onto a free public website for his family and friends. (We carried a list of "modem-friendly RV parks" so we could find connectivity.)

Cameras weren't digital back then, and photos actually had to be developed, so along with our Canon I brought my clunky scanner so we could add photos and drawings (his Art class) to the journal (usually at some time delay).

The travel itself was his History class (his school's fourth-grade theme was "The Settling of America," an extremely fortuitous happenstance). We visited Williamburg, DC, oil strikes, plantation houses, the Nina replica, the Santa Fe Trail, Sutter Mill, the Alamo, the Lewis and Clark Trail, and more, accompanying each with the appropriate educational lecture.

His 20-year-old website with all those photos is still online to this day, though we can no longer control its contents.

Anyway, since all this is only marginally on topic for this thread, here's a shot of some of the pretty, exotic deer we always love to see in west central Texas. The "unfenced" shots are from a cozy little park on the river near Junction, where they stock feeders for the herd right in the campground area, to provide daily entertainment for the campers.
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Assateague Island, VA where the local VFD round up the "wild ponies" and sell them every year.
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Always enjoy taking and seeing others wildlife photos. Still get a thrill putting the sneak on these guys
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Old 04-11-2020, 09:05 AM   #17
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More a test post than a "share the fox" post
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Old 04-11-2020, 08:44 PM   #19
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What?! Taking wildlife photos at the zoo!

I caught these two going at it in the Redwoods. Heard the horns rattling from about 1/2 mile away. They were so busy going at it, they never even knew I was there...or didn't care.
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This doe and her two tag-a-longs were spotted and photographed by my wife last evening. She was in the process of cleaning them both when we first spotted them, but she got nervous before the iphone appeared and she chose to move on. They were as small as any fawn we have ever seen.
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