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Our first roo sighting on our land
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first daylight sighting of the wallaby at the pond
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Eating some of the bread Alenka put out for the birds
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Moving closer - notice the battle torn ear- wallabies and kangaroos do not always jump
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Moving across behind the pond towards the bread
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clambering over the log
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sniffing the air - luckily I was sitting downwind -in full view !
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first tentative steps out from behind the grasses
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Night visitors- 3200 ISO , manual focus, manual exposure with external flashgun -Sony R1- taken from the balcony -set to 35 metres for distance (guessed)
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Wallaby at the pond - watching me take photos- Sigma 70-300 at 150mm - 1/90th sec f8 SR on - hand held
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Wallaby by the pond after the rain -Sigma 70-300 at 300mm 800 ISO 1/90th second at f8 - hand held (SR on)
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This shot illustrates the value of the little FZ5 with its long lens - taken at 8:20pm and with Image stabilisation-1/30th sec at f3.3 = not bad for 420mm equivalent lens
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Pentax K10 - equivalent to 6400 ISO (1600 underexposed two stops) Tamron 70-300 handheld at 300mm -1/45sec at f5.6
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Pentax K10 pushed to 6400 ISO- 2 stops under at 1600 ISO- to try to catch the wallaby at twilight coming to the house to feed
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7 am - just pre dawn we had this visitor-again grabbed the Pentax - 260mm setting 1600 ISO from bed 1/8th and 1/10th second hand held
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7 am - just pre dawn we had this visitor-again grabbed the Pentax - 260mm setting 1600 ISO from bed 1/8th and 1/10th second hand held
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Composite Wallaby photo -same wallaby two photos merged to show his capabilty at jumping
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Tamron 300mm setting Pentax K10- 1.45th sec handheld from bed! 1600ISO
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Tamron 300mm setting Pentax K10- 1.45th sec handheld from bed! 1600ISO
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Rosey Roo and her beau
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The Beau chosen by Rosey Roo - good looking boy~
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Rosey Roo and her lilac collar
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Each evening Alenka puts out some apple and vegetables for the local wallaby family - there are consistently about 12 that visit
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AS the light got worse I went to plus one stop to try to get detail in the fur - the snow was messing up the exposure
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In desperation I tried using the flash to get a few more images and only when I looked on the monitor I saw
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After months of nightly feeding we have started going down and sitting with the wallabies
