PhilCook
06-14-2012, 07:57 PM
It seems the life of our local New Zealand Fur Seals involves hunting, eating and sleeping with the occasional yawn in between.
The most common Pinniped species in South Australia, worryingly they are breeding up at a faster rate than the other species here like the endangered Australian Sealion causing, an unnatural imbalance occurring believed to be mostly as a result of human activities.
This taken off a colony on a nearby island here on a bleak cold Winters day
Canon 7D + 500 f4 + 1.4 x TC....700mm, f6.3, 1/320, ISO 500...hand held using a rock for support, cropped, noise reduction and cloned out a few barnacles on the rock in the background
The most common Pinniped species in South Australia, worryingly they are breeding up at a faster rate than the other species here like the endangered Australian Sealion causing, an unnatural imbalance occurring believed to be mostly as a result of human activities.
This taken off a colony on a nearby island here on a bleak cold Winters day
Canon 7D + 500 f4 + 1.4 x TC....700mm, f6.3, 1/320, ISO 500...hand held using a rock for support, cropped, noise reduction and cloned out a few barnacles on the rock in the background