The Photo Below Me

That's excellent Woodsie - exactly the type of thoughtful execution I was looking for.

Thanks Athena. I had lots of time to think as I relaxed on the top of the hill waiting for the right light for about an hour, with my big tripod and camera standing proudly on display. A lovely way to spend a quiet evening of contemplation.

we are wasting these wonderful creatures everyday....

if we let them go...... what a waste.

tpbm shows the cats dinner pre service... (ie before capture)

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Good morning everyone, I made through the first 10 of 20 pages from last night and I'm ROFLMAO, can't finish the next 10 as there are T-Storms rolling in and out. I need shut down totally for risk of power surge greater than my surger can handle. I may have to come home during lunch hour to finish catching up. Big Brother is watching at the office anymore so I don't get to read there, which really sucks.

Somehow I can no longer see this thread - nut can see all the others in the forum???



Can anyone PM me with any idead on how to get back in?

All I get in my browser is a blank white screen.

To anser enquireies: My post of the creek running over red rocks was taken at Gidgegannup new Perth Western Australia.

Please help me get back in ... I loved that thread!

Nzshrimper wrote:
we are wasting these wonderful creatures everyday....

if we let them go...... what a waste.

tpbm shows the cats dinner pre service... (ie before capture)

what a lovely animal and a nice shot too.

I don't mean to offend but going to the zoo to take shots of these majestic creatures isn't helping matters.
zoos are the rape of the natural world in my opinion. and they should be boycotted by all in a 21st century so called civilized world.

soon the only tigers left will be in zoos.... does this make the zoo a good thing.....hell no it's their fault the decline started in the 1st place (well not just zoos the chinese medicine trade has the most blame on it's shoulders)

went into User Control Panel and clicked on the like for repl to a recent thread I have subscribed to - this one.

AH so you can actually see the thread just not listed on the main menu of the forums

so have to use other ways to get in

chemicalbro wrote:
what a lovely animal and a nice shot too.

I don't mean to offend but going to the zoo to take shots of these majestic creatures isn't helping matters.
zoos are the rape of the natural world in my opinion. and they should be boycotted by all in a 21st century so called civilized world.

soon the only tigers left will be in zoos.... does this make the zoo a good thing.....hell no it's their fault the decline started in the 1st place (well not just zoos the chinese medicine trade has the most blame on it's shoulders)

Hmmmmm, not sure I entirely agree with you on that point. There may have been something in what you are saying 30-50 years ago. But I am sure that most respectable zoos (Can't talk for all zoos in the world) try to source most of there stock from animals bread in zoos and animals rescued from captivity or being kept, then abandoned as pets, and are too domesticated to return to the wild. I would think that in general, for them to aquire stock from the wild there has to be a fairly solid conservation justification behind it, ie if they don't breed the animal in a zoo it will cease to exist in the not too distant future. Oh, and I do know of cases of wild animals ending up in zoos because they where posing a serious threat to human populations, and it was a case of putting it in a zoo before somebody killed it or was killed by it (Thinking specifically of crocodiles in Australia which are no longer an endagered species, but where in the 60's and 70's).

But I am no expert in this area, and could be completely wrong. But even if I am completely wrong, the impact of zoos removing animals from the wild would be miniscule compared to the pressure placed on wild populations by destruction of habitat and poaching (whether for skins, chinese medicine, domestication, to stop them eating crops or whatever).

I'm not a big fan of seeing animals in cages, and tend not to go to zoos for that reason. But I do support the conservation work that they do in an enfort to save animals that our uncontrolled population growth is whiping out.

I can see this topic livening up TPBM a little.

woodsie i agree in part.......but i didn't mean that zoos get their stock from the wild..........
just that zoos in the begining did so they started the trend.
zoos nowadays make people interested in these animals and want them........or part of them..........

conservation nowadays is a good thing but i don't think zoos are the way to do it.

IMO there is no such thing as a respectable zoo....... there is nothing in the least respectable in keeping animals locked in cages


it's like agent smith said in the matrix...............m​an is a virus

woodsie wrote:
I can see this topic livening up TPBM a little.

it's something i feel strongly about... I am totally against zoos.
man the powerful all controlling .... keeping all the cute wittle animals for all the people to come gawp at....

we forget we are animals too....

I am no expert either woodsie but i know how i feel. and i feel it is wrong simple as that

Not fair singling me out like that.

I was gone most of the evening...and there was plenty of chit chat while I was away, adding to the 25 pages or so that I did participate in.
It was a blast in here last night Dan....you shoulda been here.

Oh....and it's not free time, it's sleeping time I use to play here, LOL. I'm gonna be a zombie today.

morning everybody

I can see the thread on the main menu in POTN and click on the hyperlink. The hyperlink resolves to a black white screen that appears to be searching for the page.

I contacted the webmaster who may get back to me sometime.

I'm reading the posts by email as they get sent to me through alerts!

Of course I can't see posted images.



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