Monday, July 23, 2012

New Camera try-out! Forest Hills Cemetery- 7/20/2012

OK, since the old camera bit the dust and Beast Buy was unable to fix it, we got to go pick out a new one! The sales associates at Beast Buy were the Best! They got us a great new one with all of the bells and whistles! But could we figure out how to use it properly? Let's find out!

I picked up Andrea at the train and we headed over to the Forest Hills Cemetery pond in hopes of testing out that 42X Zoom on some basking turtles. There weren't any, but weird beauty was all around!
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We were scaring Bullfrogs into the pond by accident, but finally got to photograph a few...
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Then we saw a Snapping Turtle noggin break the surface. This guy put a show on for us! I'll let the pictures do the talking...
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This Bullfrog didn't seem to mind, but we backed up a bit! (There is a second Bullfrog noggin on the right lower edge of the pic...)
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This is my size 12 shoe in the foreground to let you know how big this guy was!
My size 12 for comparison
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We let him carry on his Snapping Turtle ways and went off to photograph some more Bullfrogs.
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So yeah- the camera works!! This little test-run was great, thanks to a massive chelonian, some brave anurans and some pleasant weather! Now, we were ready for a real nature walk!

6 comments:

  1. ¡Para hacer personajes de terror,basta con agrandar estos animales!!!! besos x dos Martha

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    1. Me encantarĂ­a ver un dibujo de una "tortuga monstruo", Martha! SerĂ­a miedo! :)

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  2. Nice Snapper! How did Cutler turn out? Any Racers?
    It was nice meeting you guys the other day.

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    1. No racers here either, Steve! Just a repeat Ringneck (the bitey one from a few weeks ago) and a Ribbon who was very quick and we couldn't photograph! A nice Wood Frog, though!

      Great to meet you as well!! I'm sure we'll see each other again on the trail!!

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  3. Awesome snapper! I went turtling down Agawan River in Wareham, MA last week. Check out this snapper my sister caught with her bare hands: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHlKRh7hajA&feature=g-upl

    Love following you on your adventures!

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    1. Thanks a ton, Amy!! Wow! What a massive snapper she caught!! Beautiful animal!

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