Winter Herping.

Who said winter herping was a fruitless exercise? Well I will admit I was not exactly out looking for herps today, more that I stumbled upon todays objects of photography. I was collecting fire wood and under the same log I found these two adult frogs which I believe to be Spotted Marsh Frogs - Limnodynastes tasmaniensis, I am yet to confirm this hunch all I know is thats one more frog species to add to the belt, the second subject today is a Southern Rainbow Skink - Carlia tetradactyla and is a male in breeding colours. These photos were taken in my light box studio, all were returned unharmed to the wild!

Enjoy,

Larrikin Bax...

HDR.

Well I had my first crack at HDR today, although I don't think they look HDR they turned out different and I quite like them, I've cranked the brightness up as I've found my pc to be a tad on the dark side when it comes to image viewing, this will change once my new iMac arrives!!

Enjoy,

Larrikin Bax...

Taronga.

I paid a visit to Taronga Zoo last weekend and this is some of my favourite shots of the day, some will be available soon at Herpographics Photography which you can access via the link at bottom of this page.

Enjoy,

Larrikin Bax...

Sydney Harbour.

Went to Sydney on the weekend and thought I would try my hand at some pano style shots even though I didn't have my tripod at hand, I should have taken more shots to get a better stitch but next time I'll take the tripod and spend more time on taking the shots, well here are my rushed efforts!

Cheers,

Larrikin Bax...

Macro.

Well finally got around to making a light box even though I currently don't own a macro lens and these are my best shots I got.

Cheers,

Larrikin Bax...

Update!

Well it's been a while since I last blogged as I've been busy setting up other ventures which include 3 new blogs to keep me busy and giving this one a major face lift, 1st project is one I started with Ewan from Herp Affinity, the new venture is called Herpographics Photography, which is a place to sell our favourite herp photographs, 2nd project was setting up Rodents Direct as I'm now a full time rodent breeder I can now offload a heap of rodents to the public and lastly I set up a blog for when I start to breed my pythons, its called Back in Black Pythons, so check em out I've made links at the bottom of this blog and drop me an email at larrikinbax@gmail.com and let me know what you think!!

So I'll be sure to be back uploading soon, might look through the archives and see what I can share as herping is no good now winter is nearly upon us!!

Cheers,

Larrikin Bax...

Easter Long Weekend Herping.

Long weekends are a great time to invite the mates up for a few drinks and some herping and that's just what I did this Easter. The action started a few hours before everyone got to my place, as I was at the back door I noticed a Wedge Tailed Eagle 30 metres from my house near the creek, so i grabbed my camera to see if I could finally get a closer photo of these magnificent birds of prey. As I approached the one by the creek it flew off which made me then notice the larger male in the tree ( I got photos of a lace monitor in this tree only a week ago ), I took a photo before he also flew off and that's when I spooked one in the gully of the creek and got the second shot, this one stirred the rest of the eagles and on a quick count there were six fully grown eagles. We later learned that day whilst herping along the creek that they had devoured a kangaroo and nothing but bone and hind legs were left, if I hadn't spooked them i have no doubt no flesh would have been left at all, only bone.

The weather was good for the weekend especially when showers were fore casted for the majority of the weekend. We started off spotting Water Dragons and Water Skinks along the creek line and a few Eastern Long Neck Turtles in the dam, we then headed up the mountain and at the first dam stop we spotted a Red Bellied Black Snake, but unfortunately no one grabbed a shot as it took off into the dams reeds, we then saw a Eastern Bearded Dragon basking on a rock but yet again no photo, 10 metres away we then spotted a Yellow Faced Whip Snake which my mate got shots of but I couldn't as I had to keep the 4wd from rolling back down the hill, you can check out the shots by clicking on Herp Affinitys blog in my followed blogs, that's when the 4wd ran out of fuel and we had a 1 1/2 hour walk home. After re-fueling we spotted Broad Palmed Tree Frogs at the top dam, then it was BBQ, drinks and fire time.

During the night we spotted a Fox, Stoney Creek Frogs and sleeping birds and Water Dragons, the next day we got some good shots of Broad Palmed Tree Frogs and I got my first Robust Striped Skink, we also saw a Jacky Lizard and what looked like a dingo, we have had feral dogs in the past and this one is probably one too, although I have no doubt it had dingo in it due to its rich red colour.

All in all we had a great weekend and saw more then I expected we would.

Enjoy,

Larrikin Bax...

Wedge Tailed Eagle - Aquila audax

Dragonfly

Broad Palmed Tree Frog - Litoria latopalmata

Eastern Water Dragon - Physignathus lesueurii

Eastern Water Skink - Eulamprus quoyii

Black Wallaroo - Macropus bernadus

Black Rock Scorpion - Urodacus manicatus

Robust Striped Skink - Ctenotus robustus

Termite Nest