Bald eagles have been quite bold lately, landing along roadsides and highways to feed on dead deer.
They look majestic in photos but to see them up close is another thing altogether. They don't look all that large until you are around a dozen paces away and they open up their wings to take flight.
Awesome can't describe their beauty.
Another beautiful bird with a very unique and lovely call.
summer in NSW south of sydney usually 30+ celcius
winter can reach up to 26ish probably. very vague view of it though and peoples thoughts might differ
that is a good little cam. I have gotten some amazing shots out of a point and shoot....I don't wanna derail this thread, but I would love to give you some pointers, PM me.
I have to assume it is some form of fungus that is damaging the tree. It was by far one of the most surreal things I have ever seen, I couldn't make very much sense of it.
The tree is called a River She-Oak, but I have no clue what is going on with the infection area.
It didn't smell like anything besides sap, I think it was a mixture of drying/fresh sap, and some strange fungus growing inside. It seemed like it was just damaged wood underneath, nothing gnarly.
The big horn were in Rocky Mountain National Park, in Colorado.
The two sunset photos were taken along a stretch of "scenic highway" in Arizona, between the north rim of the grand canyon, and the Utah border. They're called the Vermilion Cliffs. The smoke is a desert rain.
It was taken with a film camera and the negative scanned. It was actually the first test scan of my (then) new scanner's negative tray.
I've still got to go through and clean it up from the artifacts (dust/missing pixels).
It's a picture of the "upper falls" at Minnamurra Rainforest (NSW south coast) - past Wollongong in the Kiama area. About 2 hours drive south of Sydney.
It was late October, about 10 years ago. That was actually what the light was like at the time (it was around 3 in the afternoon).
The blurring in the foreground is wind shaking the shrubbery. The blur of the waterfall is intentional.
I took two rolls of film that afternoon. I'm not a 'snapper'. If it won't make a decent photo due to angle or lighting or whatever, I don't generally take it. I've missed more than a few "once in a lifetime" shots for this reason.
It is a habit developed over about 10-15 years, and therefore one hard to break. I still don't believe in taking pictures that will turn out crap or aren't what I wanted.
Regardless of whether or not the electrons are free.
My Photographic arts course, for example (I placed 3rd in state). Most people (for their final work) went through around 200+ frames to get the 12 they had to submit for marking.
I used 25. 1 roll of film. Yet took around the same amount of expired time to shoot them. I go for quality over quantity.
Well, I guess that's okay then. I'm a hack, with no formal training in photography, so I take tons of shots, knowing that I'll have some really good ones (and some really crap ones).
chromedog wrote:It is a habit developed over about 10-15 years, and therefore one hard to break. I still don't believe in taking pictures that will turn out crap or aren't what I wanted.
Regardless of whether or not the electrons are free.
My Photographic arts course, for example (I placed 3rd in state). Most people (for their final work) went through around 200+ frames to get the 12 they had to submit for marking.
I used 25. 1 roll of film. Yet took around the same amount of expired time to shoot them. I go for quality over quantity.
I used to think the same way , i had the habit of deleting pictures on the spot if i felt they wouldnt look good.
then the camera crew i worked with told me " always keep everything you have till you looked over them at home. some may look weird on the spot , but
there are always surprisingly good ones if you crop them ".
So how do I upload pics from my pc directly to this page? Do I just use the attachment option?
I've got a few nature pics lying around here and there...
I don't know if I have any more big horn pictures, but here are some bears instead, taken at Yellowstone in 2003. Unfortunately, this was before I had my good camera, so the pictures aren't as good.
This bear was being distinctly uncooperative and not looking at the camera at all. That's probably a good thing, because he wasn't more than 20 feet from the motorcycle.
This bear was further away
This one isn't a bear at all. It's a coyote. With a rabbit in its mouth...
some at the zoo, some in the forest, and a few abroad. ^__^
Automatically Appended Next Post: I am a member of my local zoo in Seattle, most of the primates I actually have interactions with. They remember me. I also go twice a week usually.
I also will camp out, in camo, like a hunter, but with a camera instead of a gun (well I pack a handgun, because you know...aliens...and the movie deliverance...I mean, WA state is far away from...down there....but I wish I could pack a muscly burt reynolds with a force bow....)
and I have been to a few other locales to photograph animals...
I will be doing more, I just purchased a second DSLR, I just need to not be so busy with my degree...
I dunno, at Woodland Park in Seattle, I bought the 125.00 "discovery pass", per year... I can go whenever I want, and I can get into the Seattle Aquarium (love) and other zoos too...
I took a bunch of pictures while hiking in the Franklin Mountains, outside El Paso.
A whole lot.
The view(s) of the valley from partway up.
A weird bug on a cactus.
A grasshopper that would later land on my shirt.
Weird plant.
Cactus.
Desert flower.
More flowers.
A lizard on the trail opening.
The trail didn't look so bad coming up.
The plan was to go to the top. I stopped when I nearly went tumbling down some scree.
(My brother has hte backpack, my bro in law is in the jeans, my other bro in the black shirt, my dad in the yellow.)
A view of some more of the mountains. The roadway heads to White Sands iirc.
I have a few nature pictures in my dA gallery (link in my sig). I can't access that site at work, so I can't post them directly.
Also think I lost a lot of my nature pictures in the several computer reboots I've done over the last 10 years, which is a shame.
I've been thinking of getting just a small camera I can keep in my pocket for those random moments when you see something really cool. So many times I've wished I had a camera and had to keep on going - my camera is way too big and takes way to long to turn on to get those instantaneous pictures (also is only 4 meg, which was good in the day, but not so good now - has 10x optical zoom though, which I really notice when I use my wife's camera with 4x optical zoom ).
Typeline wrote:Two reasons why I think no one is posting in this
A: Too much nature, gamers don't like it.
B: Not enough GRIMDARK.
C: Not enough chainswords for my tastes
I've got some cool pictures of the camera staring up the base of a tree, so it looks like the tree is horizontal....Can't find them though. They were really cool.
Kanluwen wrote:They don't flash, as they use an IR strobe to light the area. For concealment...the model I have comes with a strap that wraps around a tree trunk.
You can set it up at any height you want, etc, etc.
For cost? Again, price varies.
They use a standard SD card, much like a digital camera does for storage of the photos.
The distance / lighting / clarity of your photo is good enough for what i need , how much does yours cost?
,I guess he wasn't joking.
