Its oh so quiet Shh Shh

[anji1971]

It's only 10C here, but at least it's a beautiful sunny day!

[adamanteus]

I've been messing about with 'PhotoBucket' (never used it before), and with a lot of help from 'The Google Meister' I've been able to upload some video. My problem was my camera records DVD, which had to be converted to video....blah, blah, blah....
Anyway, Stefan sorted me out so if you'd like to watch four and a half minutes of T. s. concinnus doing absolutely nothing at all, here's your chance!

Video of T. s. concinnus - Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting

[Stefan-A]

OMG it yawned!

I decided to record a bit as well.
YouTube - Faces of Death
Unfortunately I can't focus or zoom while my digital camera is recording videos, so it's not that great. Can't compare it to a real video camera.

[Lori P]

Hi all-- I picked up this guy out of the road on the way home. He's been hit by a car. I called the wildlife rehabbers in my area and there is NO-ONE in our area doing reptile re-habbing!!! The nearest liscensed reptile rehabber is in Northern Va. I'm so surprised!!! I also called to see if my vet could see him but he's out of the office today.

For those of you that know turtles-- are these injuries usually fatal or do you think he has a chance?? The shell is broken just along the front in a couple of places and one front leg appears useless. He is still alive, so I'm looking for an idea of if he could be mended or if he should be put out of his misery.

He is in a small tank, on papertowels, inside of a dark blue tub with a blue heat lamp on half of the tank. So he's dark and warm, for what it's worth. I snapped these pics quick as I didn't want to disturb him more.







Any ideas would be great!!! If he survives the night, I can take him to my vet tomorrow.

[adamanteus]

Nice video, Stefan. You got some really good portrait shots of your vagrans at around the five minute mark. Lovely. Love the title too!

[adamanteus]

Doubtless you're all wondering how I was able to get such dramatic footage....... well, here's the answer!

[Stefan-A]

Thanks.

I don't like what YouTube does to the videos, they really mess up the brightness and contrast. You should see the original footage.

[adamanteus]

Repairs to injuries like this are often done with fibreglass..... I don't know, Lori. It looks pretty grim in that second shot. Do you think there might be much internal damage?

[Stefan-A]

James, the lighting was excellent in that video. It took me a moment to realize it wasn't shot outdoors.

There's a lot more going on in the radix video, though.

[adamanteus]

Same here! The original is pin sharp, bright, colourful.... but what you get to see on PhotoBucket is a bit poor... it even distorts the image slightly (compressed vertically and stretched horizontally).