John Gryphon
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After a bit of a walk into a big deep gully a couple of hinds appeared right at the wrong time, for one it was getting a bit late for the available light and two they came out of a part of the gully that I thought they wouldn't and I had set my tripod up on the wrong side of a patch of cover between the deer and me.
A 30C day here today had the underfoot leaves crackling and the deer were ranged at 87 metre`s so the move to the new vantage point was excruciatingly ****ing slow. They were in deep fern and even though they looked rich chestnut in the bino`s they didn't offer much in the way of a clean video shot. I was of the thought that a stag may appear but that didn`t eventuate. Only intermittent glimpses as they fed about the gully floor were offered.
After some time one hind saw me as I switched to her with the bino`s I saw that she was staring intently at me, yeah right,frig this as by then it was way too dark but I could see her clearly in the Swarovski`s with a clear line of sight but too dark for the camera. She started to bell and every time I got the camera running she stopped then started when I turned it off..aaaargghh. Finally standing and waving my arms around I got a couple of honks...whoopee!
The point of the second video is to show how really good glass is really better than good glass in poor light,as mentioned above I could see her clearly in the Swaro`s as she stood front on giving me the Sambar stare. The little camera had a fail.
A couple of Sambar bells to hear.
A 30C day here today had the underfoot leaves crackling and the deer were ranged at 87 metre`s so the move to the new vantage point was excruciatingly ****ing slow. They were in deep fern and even though they looked rich chestnut in the bino`s they didn't offer much in the way of a clean video shot. I was of the thought that a stag may appear but that didn`t eventuate. Only intermittent glimpses as they fed about the gully floor were offered.
After some time one hind saw me as I switched to her with the bino`s I saw that she was staring intently at me, yeah right,frig this as by then it was way too dark but I could see her clearly in the Swarovski`s with a clear line of sight but too dark for the camera. She started to bell and every time I got the camera running she stopped then started when I turned it off..aaaargghh. Finally standing and waving my arms around I got a couple of honks...whoopee!
The point of the second video is to show how really good glass is really better than good glass in poor light,as mentioned above I could see her clearly in the Swaro`s as she stood front on giving me the Sambar stare. The little camera had a fail.
A couple of Sambar bells to hear.
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