Wild Animals

Cvrn just asked on another thred how far I was away from a wolf I took a photo of. Got me to thinking. I was definatelly to close to that one and was fortunate it didn't find some reason to take me rather than to just leave. When taking wild animals, DON'T invade their space. If they have young, stay back. If your not getting close enough shot's, get a longer lense. Most the close ups you see of wild animals have either been taken from the safty of a vehicle or with a long lense from a safe distence. Many are good shot's that were cropped in a computer on on a neg. I have read about a few adventerious souls that got close to the wrong animals, they are statistics now! Even a deer is capabile of doing a good job on you and you never know when that might happen. Remember also that given a way out and not threatened, the animal will usually take the way out. The key word being USUALLY!

Another thing to keep in mind is the animals in parks are very used to people and while they may let you get awful close, they are not tame by any means. Keep your distence. I'm not sure but I wager that more people photographing animals are injured by those animals in areas where to animals are to familuar with humans. Please be careful!!!!!