Member trip to Carinthia, Austria

[Mario Schweiger]

Mario loves his new camera, although it's a Nikon.

and how can anybody love a Nikon?????

I can´t imagine, how somebody may use a manufacturers product, specialised in scanners, inkjet printers, photocopiers, etc..........

Mario

[Andre Schmid]

Michael did you mean me ?

I´ve not much photos of this beautiful male because I was going to search for some others after a few shoots....badly...but here one more...

[Christoph Riegler]

@Jürgen: with CANON 100mm IS Macro....it's a recommendation!

[Mario Schweiger]

here are two more of this beauty - a male, what else

Richard and the young Vipera ammodytes male (look on his camera belt)

and the last Zootoca vivipara from the weekend, a gravid female

Mario

[Jürgen Gebhart]

@Jürgen: with CANON 100mm IS Macro....it's a recommendation!

I know! I have the same!!!!

[Guillaume Gomard]

@andre, the ammodytes in situ is fantastic!!

@Christoph, the close up of the Dendroaspis is awesome

Well, this was supposed to be exactly the content of my post reply Anyway, it's hard to find stgh bad in this topic, so thanks again for sharing it!

[Jürgen Gebhart]

@Mario, was Richard your Camera holder?

[Mario Schweiger]

@Mario, was Richard your Camera holder?

unfortunately not - I had to carry my D5000 by myself

[Gerald Ochsenhofer]

With some delay a few more pics..
--> http://www.herpetofauna.at/bilder/Geral ... thumb.html

At first.. the proof that we REALLY saw I. horvathi ;-)

I really like those guys..

..such portraits were very hard to get..

.. because of the loud shutter - noise.. more than half of the portrait attempts just resulted in some blur

because of the high density and the agility of the specimen it really pays off to spend some more time than usual with those lizards

..the best things come to those who... flip ;-)

?

..lazy guy

more than 50% of the visible Z. vivipara were pregnant females, also (and the only reptiles) outside during bad weather conditions (max. ~12°C, a bit windy and absolutly no sun)

It's been a really nice trip.. I'm very looking foward for the next time!

PS: If someone knows the orchids and the bug in the link I would be very glad

[Andre Schmid]

Nice pictures Gerald. But I love you portraits of the horvatis !