[Leica] PAW08

[rcmphoto at yahoo.com (R. Clayton McKee)]

Uhh.  Yeah.  A LOT of telephoto.

Also some swamp smarts.  

This has been kinda fun to watch and I do appreciate the concern for my 
physical and mental health, but there are a few things I should probably 
mention at this point.

This is George.  He is the resident show gator at a wildlife park, and gets 
three squares a day, 365 days a year, in exchange for not eating the 
tourists, even the photographers.  (We have too much cholesterol.)

He was lying in the only patch of sun for a hundred yards in any direction; 
I was lying (freezing body parts off) in the shade of a big patch of buffalo 
grass a good distance away.  There was an inlet between us full of water 
with frost ice on top of it.

(I was also about two steps from my truck.)

I know what gatorbait is.  It looks kinda like this:

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rcmckee/2011PAW/bait7109.jpg.html

http://snipurl.com/24ipns 

That ain't me. 


R. Clayton McKee
PhotoJournalist
from somewhere just south of somewhere else...


--- On Wed, 2/23/11, Bob Adler <rgacpa at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Bob Adler <rgacpa at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] PAW08
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Wednesday, February 23, 2011, 2:17 PM
> When I lived in the south (Hilton
> Head Is.) every year several tourists lost 
> their dogs to 'gators; as Ted says, so fast they can run
> down a dog in the first 
> 10 yards...
> So hopefully Clayton was using a telephoto!
>  Bob Adler
> Palo Alto, CA
> http://www.rgaphoto.com
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> From: "tedgrant at shaw.ca"
> <tedgrant at shaw.ca>
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Sent: Wed, February 23, 2011 12:06:27 PM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] PAW08
> 
> Clayton McKee OFFERED:
> >>From Capa:? "If your pictures aren't good
> enough, you're not close enough."
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rcmckee/2011PAW/130007w.jpg.html
> http://snipurl.com/23p9nx???[gallery_leica-users_org]
> <<<<<
> 
> Clayton my friend,
> We all like you very much, so knock off the death defying
> close-ups of 
> alligators! Please. :-)
> 
> I mean I've photographed some weird and wild animals in my
> day, predominantly 
> the human breed. But Alligator close-ups? Not on your life
> nor mine.:-)
> 
> As the saying goes.... "I'm drawing a line in the swamp!"
> about that!
> Dang it would hurt so much! I mean for the alligator trying
> to chew this tough 
> old son of gun, it would break it's teeth as I fought back
> whacking him with my 
> M8 swinging it by the neck strap! :-)
> 
> As I understand, they move faster than a human when they
> make their initial 
> lunge for the first bite.
> 
> So do take great care if for some totally crazy death
> defying reason you should 
> attempt this again..... "DO BE CAREFUL!" And have some one
> with a big gun just 
> in case! :-)
> cheers,
> Dr. ted.
> 
> ( I can do very good first aid if need be! ;-)
> 
> 
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