may be heading there in February, I have also
received some good advice from a photographer friend in
washington state that visits yellowstone once in awhile. A
really important thing to remember this time of the
year: Like she told me, the park is mainly closed off,
but some parts are open to FOUR WHEEL DRIVE vehicles
only. She told me that chains will be provided to these
vehicles upon entrance for a fee, or else you can bring
your own. Don't bother going unless you have four
wheel drive, or you may not get in! Also, depending
upon where you are coming from, alot some extra time
for your travel, because the road up to yellowstone
is cumbersome and has a slow speed limit, especially
when there is snow on the ground! <br><br>I'm probably
going to rent a 4wdrive and go, but it is a 4 hour
drive from where i'm at, so it depends upon the
weather! Also good advice was given about using a long
telephoto or zoom lens. If you do not have one, most major
cities will rent. Basically, you will want at least a
200mm, but preferrably a 400mm-600mm (especially if you
are going to try to photograph birds). I use a 400mm
lens for wildlife photos, and as you can see if you
visit my page (link is under the tiger picture where it
says "founder's home page" a large lens is necessary.
Wide angle may be good if you are doing landscapes,
but again, not for wildlife photos.<br><br>Amy

ear Lery_3, Most of Yellowstone Park is closed
to vehicular traffic right now, until May. Only the
northern most road from Gardiner,MT to Cooke City, MT is
open. This is a great winter shooting area though.
Wolves, bighorns, coyotes, fox, eagles, elk, otters, etc.
You can't photograph wildlife with a wide-angle lens
so pack the longest lenses you own or can borrow.
Bears are hibernating so if its a winter trip you won't
see any of those. I've shot in Yellowstone hundreds
of times and the key to photographing animals there
is to keep moving and looking. Don't stop in one
area and wait. If you are driving then drive that 45
miles of open road back and forth until you find what
you want to photograph. Bad weather or good, keep
driving and keep shooting what is available. You will see
lots of elk and coyotes, and coyotes eating
wolf-killed elk, keep a tripod handy and be prepared for cold
weather. Good Luck.<br><br>Brent R
Paull<br>brentawp@...

ry this link... it may have been that I was
updating the page and had it down at the moment you were
trying to check it out. I update my site almost daily,
so always hit
refresh.<br><br><a
href=http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Workshop/4881/critique.html
target=new>http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Workshop/4881/critique.html</a><br><br>\
if not, try going in to the main page
at:<br><a href=http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Workshop/4881
target=new>http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Workshop/4881</a><br>and clicking on
"guest photos" at the
bottom.<br><br>Anyone else had/having problems seeing the critique
page?? If so, please email me ASAP!

'm plannig to travel through Yeloowstone
National Park and Montana and I would appreciate if you
could tell me what kind of camara is better to have,
and if it is good to use zoom 70-210mm or 28-80mm for
taking bears and worse.<br>I'm from Argentina and I want
to apolize for my English if I made many
mistakes.<br><br>Thanks for all

y browser can't seem to find your critique page !<br>can you
help?<br><br>Jayanth

ow!!<br>I loved that tiger pic in the forum
board.<br><br>Great afficianado(hope i got the spelling right:))of
tigers. Planning to visit Ranthambore some time next yr
to get some pics.<br><br>Just check out one of my
tiger pics at
<a href=http://photorack.hypermart.net
target=new>http://photorack.hypermart.net</a><br><br>Thanx agin!<br>Jayanth

have a minolta srt202

f you can tell me the brand and model number, I may be able to
help...<br><br><br>Amy

asically, from what I have learned from the
mammologist at our zoo, lions and tigers and other big cats
sleep about 22 out of 24 hours a day! (or so it seems)
The best time to catch them active is early in the
morning, or whatever time is coolest for them. Usually
late evening may be too dark for pictures, but they
are active at night. The best thing I can recommend
is to find out if any of the park rangers (or if it
is a zoo you are going to) feed them at a regular
time. At the national zoo in dc, they feed the lions at
10 am every morning and that is probably the only
time you will find them active!! <br><br>So, they can
be a challenge to photograph, because mostly they
lie around and sleep!<br><br>good luck!<br><br>Amy

i all, I recently got a new camera and I love to
talke pistures, but its all manual and I havent figured
out how to use it completely yet. can someone help
me? email me at ratmagic@... if you can help.

ll post up the info about the exact model and
specs of the lens as soon as i get them.In the
meantime..............I'm still searching for the best time to go to the
park. Can u tell me (if u have any idea about tiger or
lion habits ) which the best time for clicking them is
. Preferably it is afternoon photography
wise......but the problem is that I do not think they shall be
in any mood to come out in the heat!lol..... so my
query is....is it better in the early morning or late
evening? <br>by the way........my real name is
sharad........but its kinda tough for my western friends to
pronounce it......so they gave me the nick of sid...while i
was in London lol........guess u can call me that too
:)<br><br>cheerio and tally ho etc etc.....lol<br>till next time
amy....take care :)

f you get those pics of the tigers, I'd love to
see them! Thanks for the info on the canon lense, I'd
def. like to hear more about the vivitar, which model
it is. I just ordered the canon elan II E and a
bogen tripod to replace the old one, so I won't be
purchasing the zoom now, but it will be for future
reference. As soon as I get some time, I'll add my comments
to the critique page. Really busy with christmas
coming up...<br><br>thanks again. BTW., what name or
"nickname" should I be using for you??? You seem to have
several.<br><br>Amy

or posting my stuff for critique. I'll send u
some more if u wish :)<br><br> As far as the best
telephoto for a canon......from what my colleagues have
briefed me , it has to be a VIVITAR. Ill get the exact
specs and post it to u.....(though I myself am not into
wildlife photogrphy so much...seeing ur amazing photos, i
plan to diversify :)] ........anyway i was planning to
go to the national park and get some shots of the
two white tigers reportedly prowling arond there. Its
quite exciting and as soon as i manage to click them,
ill send the snaps over to u.<br><br> till next time
amy....and thanks again :)<br><br>sid :)

hat works with a canon camera, and doesn't cost an
arm and a leg. Any good recommendations?? I have a
tamron zoom, 200-400, and a cannon 35-80, and a canon
80-200 (or 70). I would like a nice fixed length.
<br><br>Also, anyone out there use or have experience in macro
nature photography? I'd be interested in hearing
opinions on good lenses/lengths to use as I am in the
market for one of these, also.<br><br>Amy

will be posting sometime this morning pictures
that were submitted to me by Sharad from India, on my
web page. Please stop by and check out the images and
feel free to comment either on my page, or here in
this forum! Look for them under here.
<a href=http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Workshop/4881/critique.html
target=new>http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Workshop/4881/critique.html</a><br><br>\
Amy

nyone interested in this subject is invited to
look at my comments regading this annoyance on the
Messages section of the
Yahoo!/Clubs/travelphotographyforum.<br>...And great to be with you
all!<br>Claude
Avézard,<br>Dubai

ooking forward to receiving them. I'll try to
post them as soon as I get time. Probably won't be
until sat. or sun. if I get them before then!!
<br><br>Yes, 39 K should be small enough to email to any
address! If you don't mind, I may compress them a little
further. It shouldn't hurt the clarity, but I only have 5
megs of space left on my geocities site...then i have
to start pestering geocities to make me a banner
site and give me some free space ehehahah yeah, right.
who knows.<br><br>Amy

forgot to wish everybody in the us a happy
thanksgiving........been kinda off the boil nowadays lol.......a bit busy.
anyway thanks for the e-mail add.....ill send some
photos over immediately. :)<br><br> by the wya thanks
for the info on the gif compressor......luckily when
i scanned my photos on my scanner i converted them
to 72 pixels jpg format ...so it doesnt take up any
space at all......(max is 39k i guess).....so i guess
even ur yahoo address should suffice?...anyway
.........that apart........ill just send over some wildlife
shots (not strictly wildlife..cos there are no animals
lol).........hope u like them........ill send a small description
with them too :).<br><br>catch ya later <br><br>sid.

ow...I'm glad so many people joined. It is good
to know there are people with the same interests
that want to share them here online! What a great way
to share ideas and interests this is. <br><br>First,
let me answer indianmystic by saying that you can
email photos to me at either anewcomb@..., or
amynewcomb@.... Depending on the size of your file...the first
address probably accepts larger file sizes. If you feel
like you need to zip up your files, please do, as I
have winzip. It would actually be better to zip it up.
Also, if you have a compression utility for graphics
like ulead gif/jpeg compressor, that too would be good
to use. You can get winzip free on the internet at
shareware.com, and ulead has a homepage where you can get a free
14 day trial of gif compressor, if you are
interested in either utility.<br><br>For whomever asked
where my home page is, the address is
<a href=http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Workshop/4881,
target=new>http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Workshop/4881,</a> or you can click
here in the club on where it
says founder's personal home page under the tiger
photo. Also, at my page you can view what kind of
equipment I use, (sort of current) and there are also some
tips pages on there for beginners.<br><br>Okay,
Bob...I don't mind that you don't do nature photography,
I think it will be nice to have some people on here
that are from another viewpoint. All that is necessary
to be in this club is an enjoyment of viewing and/or
taking wildlife photography; really any kind of
photography is interesting to me. I do not do just nature
photography, as you can see from my homepage. <br><br>I myself
spend a large amount of time at the zoo, but I do get
out in the "wild" from time to time, if you consider
the eastern grey squirrel wild...eheh. Well, birding
is big around here, unfortunately, even my 400 mm
zoom is not quite long enough, unless I set up a blind
a wait till they come close. <br><br>So, it sounds
like we have a wide range of people here and that will
be good. Feel free to email me with photos that you
may want to have critiqued, I am working on setting
up a posting cgi script on my page so that we can
all post comments on each photo I received. Don't
feel compelled to stick to submitting nature photos,
although I'd like that to be the majority of the site,
since that's what my web page is mostly about.
<br><br>Also, in regards to the darkroom experience I have, I
am currently working in black and white developing
and printing right now. I use kodak t-max 100 and
400, and I develop in tmax developer. I print on kodak
polymax II rc paper, f surface (glossy) for anyone who is
interested. I have a fair amount of b&w darkroom experience,
and I MUCH prefer developing my own to dropping it
off. I am going to learn color developing probably
next semester. I take classes at the local community
college so that I have a darkroom available to me. They
have a WONDERFUL state of the art lab with great
Besseler enlargers. <br><br>Well, hopefully I've covered
answers to all the questions in the last few posts, but
let me know if I missed any! :) I'll stop babbling
now, and let everyone get back to their holiday! (at
least those in the US, myself included)<br><br>Amy

i Amy,<br><br> Just checking out the different
camera clubs. Didn't want to just join without saying
hi.<br> Like a lot of other people here, I have been into
photography for a long time. I use a Nikon N70 and use my
Nikkor 70-300 the most.<br> I have a lot of pictures of
wildlife but, and it is a lot easier to get good photo's
in a zoo. The one in Washington is one of the best I
have been to. The animal's there are at least somwhat
groomed. Animal's in the wild seem to have a lot of bad
hair days.<br> There are a couple of things that may
help you see more animals in the wild. <br> The first
is the way you walk. You are going to make noise and
that is ok. But, think like an animal with an IQ of 12
for a moment. You spend all day in the woods and you
know what things sound like. All the other animals
have four legs and you hear thump thump... thump
thump. The sound of four legs walking. Now along come a
man (or woman) an you hear, thump thump thump thump.
The sound of two legs. Something seems wrong and you
move away because that is not a normal sound in the
woods. The answer is walk at an unsteady gate and pause
from time to time. Or, the best is to walk with a
friend (the sound of four legs walking). Stay allert as
you are cresting a hill, that is when you are going
to surpise an animal. Look around while just your
head is looking over the horizon. Don't make your
whole body visible. The animals don't. Get your eyes
used to looking for just a part of a deer or bear.
Very seldom will you see an entire animal. Spot them
and wait until they move into the open for your
picture.<br> Well, I have a habit of talking peoples eyes off
so I better get.<br><br>skyhawk 53

i Amy, and everyone.<br><br>I hope it doesn't
matter that I'm not a wildlife photographer. I tried
years ago, didn't have much luck, moved on to other
subjects. I did get a nice slide of some Cedar Waxwings, if
I can find it, maybe I'll have it printed and post
it. I also got some Elk pictures, but they were
awful.<br>Anyway, I look forward to meeting and sharing info etc.
with the club. Thanks again.<br><br>Bob

'm back in NY at my sisters house. They all went
to bed and I just couldn't help but get on line for
a while. I figured I can fill you in on my
equipment. I have a nice assortment.<br><br>Minolta 9000
body<br>Minolta 7000i body<br>70-210 mm Minolta zoom <br>28-70 mm
Tamron zoom<br>100 mm Macro Minolta<br>400 mm Sigma
telephoto<br>Bogen tripod<br>assorted filters for B&W, color
corection, effects, polerizer, ect... and other little tid
bits. <br><br>I live in Gettysburg Pa, so there is not
much wildlife here, unless you consider the college
wildlife. And even that is mellow by NY standards. Most of
my shots are parks, zoos, weekend trips and my
parents house (they live in the Poconos). <br><br>I have
gone to The School of Visual Arts for some formal
training. So I have a good foundation. If you have any
questions feel free to ask. If I can help, I will. If I
can't I'll try to find the answer.<br><br>I also have a
darkroom set up for B&W developing and printing. It is
here that I seem to have most of my problems. I left
NY 3-31/2 years ago at which time, I was taking
classes and constantly in my darkroom. But I took a job
where I travled and lived on the road. Instead of
utilizing the opportuinity for photography I allowed that
passion to fade. Now I live a semi normal life and feel I
have lost all that experience. So my 1st goal is to
not only shoot and develop a roll of B&W, but
accually print from it. <br><br>Have you any darkroom
experience? Not that it matters, its the critique and
encouragement that matter. Where is your home page? I would
like to visit. I tinkered with Geocities and Angelfire
a little bit. But that was like a fill the blank,
cut and paste kind of thing. I am thinking of setting
up a page but I need to get a scanner. I will
probally start with developing to a floppy and up load
from there. <br><br>Well I'm going on and on. Hope you
enjoy your Thanksgiving. I'll be home again on Friday
some time. So I'll check in then.<br><br>Bye,
<br><br>Lewis

..for the invitation......glad to be part of ur
club. I love photography......im mostly into
landscapes.......but i just click anything i like . Im an architect
...so clicking photos of ancient monuments is another
passion of mine. :) I saw the photo of the tiger..and
thats an amazing photo.....nice balance and great feel.
Im not a professional critic or something... (im not
even a professional photographer lol)....so i just
appreciate something which feels.....perfect.and that photo
is very close to it (if not there yet).I shall be
glad to send u some photos of mine.....but sadly very
few are wildlife shots. oh by the way.........i live
in india...and well........u have enthused me to try
my hand at wildlife too :).....ill do it nxt time
when im going on a long trip :) as far as my equipment
goes........heres the list :<br>Minolta with a 28-200 tokina
zoom.<br>colour and special effectfilters......+
polariser.<br>tripod.<br>thats about it lol......anyway i just look for some
interesting angles to shoot..and my fav developing technique
is sepia..........makes any dilapidated structure
look beautiful :)
(winks)......<br>anyway,.......enough for now.......by the way........which is
the
address i should e-mail u to with my photos? do tell me
:)<br>till then ....bye bye and have a nice day.

ell, I have noticed that many people stop in and
join, but not many post. I'll tell you that I started
seriously in photography in august this year (not long ago)
but I have been taking pictures since I was 10 or so.
I am very enthusiastic, and check in here every day
or so. I also update my web page almost on a daily
basis, so you won't have to worry about my enthusiasm!
<br><br>I am just happy to have a forum where others with
the same interest can give me their opinions on my
work, and where I can return the favor! I think it is
important to be among your peers and show your work: it
helps motivate and keep interests going! Maybe for you,
as for me, starting a web page will be a good
motivation for taking pictures. Also, you may want to submit
an image to me, and I can display it on my site for
critique either here, or on my site. I have one submission
so far, and hope to be posting it up for critique in
the next few days.<br><br>Hope you had a good
holiday!<br><br>Amy

i Amy, <br><br>Thanks for the invitation. I have
been a little disappointed with the photography clubs
so far. There just dosn't seem to be any excited and
active participants. So needless to say I was thrilled
to get your invitation. <br><br>I was joining to
help me find some motivation and inspiration, to get
started again. I have my darkroom and camera but feel a
little intimidated. I have been away from it for a
number of years. <br><br>I have done some nature, and
still life photos and I am wanting to get my work on
the computer, to work with it and get some imput. So
maybe you can help me get started with that part of it.
<br><br>Well time to go. I'll be away for the holiday, so I'll
talk to you next week. Have a happy
Thanksgiving.<br><br>Lewis

f you would like to share your photos,
<br>please email me a picture as an attachment,<br>and I can
post it in a specific section of<br>my web page. Be
sure to include a brief <br>release of permission
(something like: I give<br>Wildlife Photography permission
to display my<br>image on the web )<br><br>This way
we can all share our work and give helpful
comments...<br><br>I see we have some new members...please feel
free<br>to post something!!!

'd like to ask everyone what their opinions are
on the "hands of man" rule in wildlife photography.
How do you feel about this often controversial
subject?? <br><br>In case you are not familiar with the
"hands of man" rule - go here to the PSA's page and read
the<br>definition:<br><br><a href=http://www.psa-photo.org/nddef2.htm
target=new>http://www.psa-photo.org/nddef2.htm</a>

ildlife photography, and I enjoy discussing different
techniques and looking at other people's work. Please feel
free to add your URL here so that I (and others) may
view your work. I'd like to get some sort of a
critique going, so if you are a professional with great
viewpoints and experience...please stop by here every once
in awhile. <br><br>If you don't have a web page of
your own, and would like to post some photos of
wildlife that you would like to have others view, send me
an email, and maybe I can help you out.<br><br>Maybe
we can start the discussion by asking new members a
few questions:<br><br>What equipment do you
use??<br>What areas of nature/areas of the country<br>do you
shoot in most or prefer??<br>How much experience have
you had?<br>Any advice to beginners?<br><br>Looking
forward to gaining members of all types!!!

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