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pcp (3346) 2008-10-01 21:46

Hi Helmut,

Wonderful shot and great colors in sky.. to make this picture more wonderful. I like this running kangaroos. it will be more wonderful if you gave some place to gangaroos to run.

TFS

Senthil

spetzouras (238) 2008-10-01 22:22

Hello my friend and congratulations for this beautiful photo!
Great capture and moments.
Greetings from Greece.

goodwill (4029) 2008-10-01 23:05

I don't remeber whether I have seen any kangaroo shots on TE or not, but this shot is really warm with the two animals galloping against the reddish orange sky.
I find focus is a slight issue in this gallop, which you need to take care.

Rajeev

danielswalsh (13295) 2008-10-01 23:32

News story I just read on the internet:

"An offbeat suggestion that Australians should eat kangaroos instead of cattle and sheep has been given a scientific stamp of approval by the government's top climate change adviser.

The belching and farting of millions of farm animals is a major contributor to Australia's greenhouse gas emissions, Professor Ross Garnaut noted in a major report to the government on global warming.

Kangaroos, on the other hand, emit negligible amounts of methane gas.

If farmers were included in a system requiring industry to buy permits for the gas they produce, the cost of meat would rise and could lead to a change in eating habits, Garnaut said in the 600 page report released Wednesday.

"For most of Australia's human history -- around 60,000 years -- kangaroo was the main source of meat," he said.

"It could again become important. However, there are some significant barriers to this change, including livestock and farm management issues, consumer resistance and the gradual nature of change in food tastes."

Garnaut cited a study looking at the potential for kangaroos to replace sheep and cattle for meat production in Australia's rangelands, where kangaroos are already harvested.

The study concludes that by 2020, beef cattle and sheep numbers could be reduced by seven million and 36 million respectively, allowing for an increase in kangaroo numbers from 34 million now to 240 million by 2020.

This would be more than enough to replace the lost lamb and beef production, and kangaroo meat would become more profitable than cattle and sheep as the price of emissions permits increased.

Garnaut's report said livestock, mainly cattle and sheep, are responsible for some 67 percent of agricultural greenhouse gas emissions.

Despite being the national animal and appearing on the Australian coat of arms, millions of kangaroos are slaughtered in the wild each year to control their numbers and much of the meat is used for pet food.

The idea of farming them for human consumption is controversial, but many health-conscious Australians already eat kangaroo meat.

"It's low in fat, it's got high protein levels, it's very clean in the sense that basically it's the ultimate free range animal," says Peter Ampt of the University of New South Wales's institute of environmental studies."*

*- AFP

Great silhouetted shot against a beautiful sky. The colors in the setting sun really make the shot for me!
- Dan

fariischee (580) 2008-10-02 0:08

this is a nice picture..
maybe to much fore ground.. alil croping and sheoullte the Roos would help..

cheeers

rio_de_janeiro (2004) 2008-10-02 0:50

Heartly welcome to TE Helmut!
What to say about the photograph...?
Awesome, great, well managed, nicely saturated sky with two incredibly beautiful australians participating in making the pic very unique even though it is kind of an australian cliché, isn't it.
TFS so much, have nice day.
Kind regards
Marque

gpsony (478) 2008-10-02 1:51

Hi Helmut,

I see that the others have exhausted what I would like to say about the photograph.

So, I just say Congrats!!!

Cheers,
Guru

skellywag (887) 2008-10-02 3:20

Helmut, this is awesome. Great colours, POV and action! I cannot add aything that hasn't already been said. Well done, Jean

trekks (14260) 2008-10-03 10:00

hello Helmut

This is a kangaroo shot with comes with a rare sunset sky that is so colorful and with such a glow that makes the skipping action very attractively pit against the sky.

I like your low angle to show the ground for that extra feature of texture to the contrast of sky color.

Not sure if you were also hoping, like I do, that the kangaroo's feet will be off the ground to have the 'flying' feel to it, and that could have made a great capture. Not impossible, would it? tfs

bill

presidente (1109) 2009-03-31 10:40

Wonderful capture! The red light give a sense of warm to the picture. I love it, maybe I would have only crop a little bit of the foreground.
Excellent shot.