A Day at the Natural Science Museum

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Mike D90

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I was off work today so I took off this morning to the Tallahassee Museum of History and Natural Science. It is a rather small outdoor type museum with captive animals kept in natural environments. No cages, just fencing. There is an elevated board walk that meanders through the grounds so all shooting, except for the birds, is done from slightly above the subject. The birds are inside wire mesh habitats so they can fly around a little bit but the mesh sure makes shooting tough.

I shot a little over 200 images and kept around 140 so I still have some processing to finish. It took me eight hours to run them all through LightRoom for cropping, processing and conversion to TIFF. Now I have them all to run through Photoshop for finishing for print and saving copies as low resolution for posting.

I finished a few for posting tonight but this is just a few. There will be a good many more to come. A few of these were posted in another section earlier.



Florida Panther 1.jpg

American Bald Eagle 2.jpg

American Bald Eagle 3.jpg

Red Wing Hawk.jpg
 
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Mike D90

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Here are two shots that I think are my all time favorite shots to date. I absolutely enjoyed my time with this little fellow. He was beautiful, in great light and seemed to enjoy my attention. He gave me a bunch of great poses and I have more shots of him to post tomorrow once they are finished.

I would love to have one of these, Red Fox, as a companion pet.


Red Fox 2.jpg

Red Fox 1.jpg
 
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Deezey

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You can own a red fox here in Ohio. They are like a mix between a cat and dog. Pretty clean animals. Extremely smart and good....and I mean good....climbers.

Pretty crafty and love to chew. And by crafty I mean open the fridge crafty. They tame, but will never domesticate. I believe the Russian silver fox is the only domesticated fox.

On the up side they love to play and be petted. And held. Love to be held.
 
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BackdoorArts

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Nice shots, Mike. There's a wolf preserve up here that I've been wanting to shoot at for a while. My free time never lines up with good weather - go figure.
 
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Mike D90

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Scott Murray said:
Nice work but not about keeping a fox as a pet.. Thats just cruel :-(
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Why would you see it as cruel? We keep dogs and cats and birds as pets. I think if it has a good home and land to use it would be injust as good a place as in teh wild. However, I don't have space for such an animal so I wouldn't own one.
 
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Scott Murray

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Mike d90 said:
Why would you see it as cruel? We keep dogs and cats and birds as pets. I think if it has a good home and land to use it would be injust as good a place as in teh wild. However, I don't have space for such an animal so I wouldn't own one.
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Not going to get into a debate but there is a difference between domesticated animals and wild animals, just the way I am.
 
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Mike D90

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Scott Murray said:
Not going to get into a debate but there is a difference between domesticated animals and wild animals, just the way I am.
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I understand and you are correct about the difference. I wasn't arguing the point. I just didn't understand your reason at first. However, a "domesticated" wild animal is certainly better off in a home than back out into the wild.
 
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