Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Gator Boys at the Gulf Coast Gator Ranch

I sure enjoyed seeing the other photographers last Saturday when we went to photograph the Gator Boys at the Gulf Coast Gator Ranch.  For me, the conditions were tough with the bright light and crowded venue.

The Gator Boys did a great job of providing factual information about alligators during their show, and it was interesting to watch the film crew do their jobs as well.  When the videographers were between me and the action, I figured that I'd picked a pretty good light angle...  And since I couldn't see through them, I tried to get some shots showing the whole thing - Gator Boys & crew, film crew, & crowd...



I went back for another show in the afternoon & got on the opposite side from the film crew...  I sure wish that I could have been inside the chainlink fence too!



My 5-year old daughter is a HUGE Gator Boys fan, and she got this portrait of Jimmy Riffle using one of my old D-70 bodies with a kit lens...



And my wife got a neat "alligator in habitat" shot out in the marshlands while we were there...



1 comment:

Jeff said...

Nice shots! You really got a good shot of the gator through the fence. It was a challenge to be able to shoot with the amount of film crew that was also filming the action, Jeff