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Sometimes it takes a wake-up call, doesn't it, to alert us to the fact that we're hurrying through our lives instead of actually living them; that we're living the fast life instead of the good life. And I think, for many people, that wake-up call takes the form of an illness. - Carl Honore
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This vervet monkey (chlorocebus pygerythrus) decided to come down from the trees and into the long grass. All very well but long grass can hide predators as well as you!! The monkey was on high alert for the brief time it spent in the grass and soon returned to a nearby tree. Photographed in The Okavango, Botswana.
A male Masked Weaver on the lookout for rivals and nasty females wanting to destroy his newly built nests. A stressful life he has…Nothing gets him down, though. His energy is endless.
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This image was taken over our back yard fence looking into the Austin, Texas greenbelt area. Deer and coyotes are our neighbors and regular visitors.
The large ears ensure excellent hearing. They can move independently of each other and can thus absorb sound from any direction. A hare can turn its ears outwards by 190 °. In addition to the sharp hearing, the hare also has a highly developed sense of smell to be able to perceive enemies and pick up the scent of rutting females. By constantly sniffing the hare catches odors all the time. The sideways placed eyes provide a 360 ° field of view. There is overlap in front of and behind him, and the hare does not have to move its head to see its surroundings. Only in front of and just behind him is a blind spot. However, the hare cannot estimate depth.
So maybe he saw me, smelled me, heared the shutter but had no idea how far I was :).
Good sample how great a legacy lens can be, adapted to a mirrorless body! This is a very sharp lens with no issues, except slight color fringing against bright backgrounds. And it's a heavy lens. The use as a tele-macro lens is better than I expected, but I prefer the 105mm Micro Nikkor for closer focusing distance, size and weight.
NIKKOR 180mm f-2.8 ED Ai-S MF & Metabones NF-X-mount Adapter [270mm]
Fall leaves, from the garden. Captured with an old Vivitar Series 1, 105mm Macro, on my Pentax K-1 Mark II. (K1AA7233) In album "Red Alert".
Mockingbirds seem to be aware of everything that goes on around them. I think it is a learned skill; maybe a survival instinct. I mean, you really have to be alert to keep from getting shot because you are singing at 3 AM in the morning!
Bakersfield, California 2010
.Something has caught the attention of this mother polar bear (Ursus maritimus) and her two large cubs, who minutes earlier had been napping together on a snowy hillside above Hudson Bay, just visible in the background. Perhaps it was a male polar bear that are known to kill unrelated cubs. Churchill, Manitoba.
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