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Windjana Gorge, Kimberley, WA


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Image #10516


Windjana Gorge is the only place I know of where you can lie on the sand within a few feet of a crocodile...well actually you can do that in a lot of places, but at Windjana you won't get eaten. Not that 'freshies' are harmless, they will attack if you get in their face too much, but generally they run a mile at the sight of a human. Here at Windjana though they are very tolerant, as long as you move slowly and stay quite.

I spent ages lying on the sand, watching this croc as he watched me. By and large they don't do much which is why you have to spend so long and in all that time the only indication I had that this fellow wasn't dead was the fact that his mouth occasionally changed the amount by which it was open.

It was late afternoon and the sun had long gone from the bottom of the gorge, but that's good for this type of photo. Bright sunlight would have been way too harsh, the 'bright overcast' affect created by the indirect light shows detail well but lacks punch, hence the use of flash.

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Camera::Canon EOS 10D
Lens::EF 70-200 f2.8 IS L
Focal length::200mm (FF equiv = 640mm)
Exposure::1/30sec
Aperture::f11
Other details::2x extender, on-camera flash, FOV 25, 3x1 panorama
Image size::6176 x 1951 pixels (13Mpx)

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