laurence
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Scottish Wildcats
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Maz
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I see. I thought that was a link to a website about wildcats. Didn't realise the photo was taken by laurence til I saw the name in the corner.
I used to go out with one called Morag... and I'm not publishing the pictures!
Superb, Laurence, very much a wild cat even if to my inexpert eye it looks remarkably cool and unbothered! 
I don't have much expectation of seeing one in the wild, even if I were to spend the rest of my life in Scotland! More likely I'd end up with a poor old domestic tabby gone feral. 
Do you do macro?
I don't have much expectation of seeing one in the wild, even if I were to spend the rest of my life in Scotland! More likely I'd end up with a poor old domestic tabby gone feral. Do you do macro?
Used to work at Faslane and travelled the A82 Loch Lommond road to work.
My mate was driving and being a cat lover he noticed a cat that had been hit by a car lying in the road.
He stopped the car got out and lifted the cat and put it in the boot of the car and we drove to the nearest house to find out if the injured cat belonged to them?
The first house was in fact a farm!
We were met by the farmer and we asked him if he'd lost a cat ?
We oppened the boot to show him the cat , it was then he informed us that the cat we had in the boot was a WILDCAT!!!
The cat jumped from the car and bolted---- but it had used my mates boot as a litter tray and boy did it stink!!
My mate was driving and being a cat lover he noticed a cat that had been hit by a car lying in the road.
He stopped the car got out and lifted the cat and put it in the boot of the car and we drove to the nearest house to find out if the injured cat belonged to them?
The first house was in fact a farm!
We were met by the farmer and we asked him if he'd lost a cat ?
We oppened the boot to show him the cat , it was then he informed us that the cat we had in the boot was a WILDCAT!!!
The cat jumped from the car and bolted---- but it had used my mates boot as a litter tray and boy did it stink!!
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laurence
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- in the aeroplane over the sea
Class picture Laurence, published eh, not bad. He looks more livid than wild though
(s)he was relaxing in the sun, there was another nearby that was keeping a close eye on me, despite the bars and glass - that one was very fierce, but in too much shade. that shot was at quite a slow shutter speed, but i wedged the lens against the glass and held my breath to try and avoid shake, the inbuilt shake reduction helped - hoorah for pentax.
Superb, Laurence, very much a wild cat even if to my inexpert eye it looks remarkably cool and unbothered!
Do you do macro?
i do do macro on occasions... i've taken macro shots of common lizards and dragon/damsel/hoverflies - as well as plants. i got the Tamron 90mm macro lens a few months back (which is a must have for anyone) and when that fails to get me close enough i use extension tubes and a 50 or 28mm lens. i'm a sucker for getting as close as i can to something.
saw one on top of the moors in about 1980(!) it was probably on the way out to ardnamurchan.. here
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sou...2029,-6.041794&spn=0.162008,0.386238&t=h&z=12
was sort of confusing,, you know its a cat,, but it doesnt look 'right'... ( it was june,,,, and snowing.... good old scotland
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http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sou...2029,-6.041794&spn=0.162008,0.386238&t=h&z=12
was sort of confusing,, you know its a cat,, but it doesnt look 'right'... ( it was june,,,, and snowing.... good old scotland
)