Having fun!!

[Andreas Liedmann]

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Good morning .this time something different,photographed this leopard tortoises while they were mating.the noise that came out of that male,was daily loud for such a small animal.Location was Addo Elephant NP (SA)
Hope you like it.

EOS 1D Mark II
EF 100 - 400 at 340 mm
window bracket

Full frame f5,0 /1/160sec /ISO 200

processed in ACR 7 + PS CS6

C&C as usual most welcome:wave:

Andreas

[Ken Watkins]

Andreas,

What an amazing capture (right place right time:w3)

I have heard them mate before it certainly is amazingly loud!

This is in all honesty probably the best tortoise image I have ever seen:cheers::cheers::cheers:

Nothing I can criticise in any way

[Harshad Barve]

This is in all honesty probably the best tortoise image I have ever seen:cheers::cheers::cheers:

Plus one here and absolute winner , Mighty fine image and big congrats
TFS

[Nancy Bell]

Outstanding! Amazing behavior, fabulous light and great composition. Could not be better!

[Rachel Hollander]

Agree with all the superlatives above. Congrats on this one!

TFS,
Rachel

[Steve Kaluski]

Andreas I wish we had a 'Caption' area in the Forum, this would be fun, nice one. :S3:

TFS
Steve

[Dumay de Boulle]

Very nice detail and good colors. If I was to be slightly critical I would have to say I would have tried to move a bit to the right (If possible). You did well with the angle of the light.

[Andreas Liedmann]

Thank you all,
i was not thinking that i would get that many nice comments for this tortoise image.Sometimes it is surprising.

Dumay - it is FF
Steve - what does it mean "caption forum",translation please.

Cheers Andreas

[Morkel Erasmus]

Love the low angle and behaviour - yes they are loud! :cheers:
I think this is one of the best tortoise images around, but I have to agree with Dumay - was there any way to get more to the right so the "head angle" on the male could be better? :e3

[Andreas Liedmann]

Hello Morkel and Dumay
i could have chosen a wider view,but by the time i took this picture 2005,i think i was looking differently to images.I just wanted everything as tight as possible in the frame.

A different angle was not really possible,because i was more than happy not to flip the car i was sitting in.


Hope this answers your thoughts and suggestions.

Cheers Andreas

[Steve Kaluski]

Andreas - "To come up with a funny 1-sentence or 1-phrase caption for this picture". :S3:

[Mark Wiseman]

Beautiful light, low POV and composition, a wonderful image, well dona Andreas.
Thanks for sharing,
Mark.

[Vivaldo Damilano]

Gorgeous Andreas, love the golden light.

[Sid Garige]

Andreas,

Killer timing and great action. Nice image.

-Sid