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Shooting koalas in Victoria. With a camera.

PostPosted: Wed Dec 11, 2013 5:39 pm
by ozimax
Spent the day at Cape Otway, Victoria. What an incredible place. There were koalas everywhere and I just so happened to have my trusty Nikon V1 handy...

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Koala5 by Ozimax, on Flickr

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Koala4 by Ozimax, on Flickr

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Koala3 by Ozimax, on Flickr

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Koala2 by Ozimax, on Flickr

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Koala1 by Ozimax, on Flickr

Re: Shooting koalas in Victoria. With a camera.

PostPosted: Wed Dec 11, 2013 7:42 pm
by Matt. K
Ozi
They look so life like! How do you do it? :D

Re: Shooting koalas in Victoria. With a camera.

PostPosted: Wed Dec 11, 2013 8:25 pm
by ozimax
Matt. K wrote:Ozi
They look so life like! How do you do it? :D


Computers... :biglaugh:

Re: Shooting koalas in Victoria. With a camera.

PostPosted: Wed Dec 11, 2013 8:32 pm
by ozimax
Actually, photos 1,2,3 are of the same koala. He was sitting in the middle of the highway, so I stopped and ushered him into the scrub. I then followed him for a while until he climbed a gumtree. He was nice enough to pose several times without attacking!

Re: Shooting koalas in Victoria. With a camera.

PostPosted: Thu Dec 12, 2013 11:31 am
by zafra52
Very nice, I like them. It is even nicer to know
these are wild animals and they do exist outside
reserves and zoos. I had to go to one of them to
show my family back in Spain they still exist despite
bushfires, floods and road kills.

Your koalas' faces tell me they did not like being
photograph, even by such an illustrious photographer
as yourself. I hope you made them sign a model
release...

Re: Shooting koalas in Victoria. With a camera.

PostPosted: Thu Dec 12, 2013 1:50 pm
by ozimax
zafra52 wrote:Very nice, I like them. It is even nicer to know
these are wild animals and they do exist outside
reserves and zoos. I had to go to one of them to
show my family back in Spain they still exist despite
bushfires, floods and road kills.


Thankfully Zaffs there are thousands of them down here. I did tell one tourist to make sure he didn't touch them as they are spiteful little critters (but more importantly I think we don't want to give them any "human" germs).

zafra52 wrote:Your koalas' faces tell me they did not like being
photograph, even by such an illustrious photographer
as yourself. I hope you made them sign a model
release...


Getting them to sign the paper wasn't a problem, but I can't for the life of me understand Koalese. :biglaugh:

Re: Shooting koalas in Victoria. With a camera.

PostPosted: Fri Dec 13, 2013 10:15 am
by zafra52
Koalese? :D :lol: :D :lol:

Every one of my nephews got a Koala from me the first
time I saw him/her after being born. One of those
souvenir toys made with kangaroo fur. Even the daughters
of my best friend got theirs. It became an expectation.

Last time, I had to explain my godson (6yrs) that real koalas
had very different colour and type of fur. He thought we had
them in the backyard, so they were very surprised when I
told them I had not seen ever a real koala and I had to
promise him I would.

Anyway, this year I took myself to Alma Park zoo and I
got myself photographed holding a koala and sent it to
them. The lady koala I held in my arms was lovely and
very friendly, but she was more interested I climbing me
up like a tree and inspect my bold head and although, she
was gentle she had very sharp and respectable nails.