PHOTO-A-DAY: April 2013

Postman

@itsnotmeyouknow

Fantastic shot of the Lakes, assume Windermere looking over to the Langdale Pikes?

Here is one more from my Iceland trip, the northern lights over the Vatnajokull icecap.

Witty_Nickname

D800 - Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8 @ f/10 and 66mm
18 second exposure.

itsnotmeyouknow

@itsnotmeyouknow

Fantastic shot of the Lakes, assume Windermere looking over to the Langdale Pikes?

Here is one more from my Iceland trip, the northern lights over the Vatnajokull icecap.

Indeed, from Jenkin's Field at Waterhead.

I've been to Iceland twice - missed the Northern lights though.

Coastalconn

Got eagle?

Gitzo

For all of the fancy car aficionados, here's some "eye candy" for you! I didn't take the picture but it looks so
slick, I thought you might enjoy seeing it.

1939 Delahaye 165 Figoni et Falaschi Cabriolet

Dredden85

@Gitzo- Msmoto, eat your heart out! What a beautiful car.
@Coastalconn- What a stunning shot! Simply a brilliant shot!

Dredden85

My bird for the day
The Bahrainie Ruby Throated Strutting Pigeon. I have no idea what the actual name is.

30% Crop

Larger: http://blg.nikonsrc.com/image/ls2pyw2qjWjsrWACu3fb72Bu0FLtEi1PBX9VvNpaVzND5fVQ2ifAx-97ksGSfQw8_eAT_60jDC4/item.JPG?rot=1

D7000+N18-200 @ 200mm, f5.6, 1/640, ISO 100, CPL, Handheld.

birdman

ErikssonRobin

Strangled snake by Robin Eriksson

pippigurl

@adamz:As simple as it seems...that is a Black Collared Hawk....

Benji2505

for this shot I used one SB900 from the top to get the blue shadow onto the lemon

TheGipper

Watch me.

aviachar

@proudgeek

aviachar, that looks awesome. Were you riding on pavement or dirt? One last geese shot from the other day, this one landing instead of taking off.

The initial 10 or 15 kms was on asphalt the rest of the 40-50 kms was on dirt. All of the biking was downhill so it was fun!

Pfieffer State beach, Big Sur, California

Gitzo

@ Adamz........Not sure, but I think maybe it's a rare white headed, ring-neck Brazilian fish eagle ? 8-}

Gitzo

@ ErikssonRobin.......Kinda hard to tell....but the snake "on the bottom" (head nearest camera), I'm pretty sure is a king snake; and I think the one on top is a common water snake; assuming I'm correct. I can tell you this; there will soon be.........only ONE snake; ( a very fat king snake! )

dissent

pippigurl

NO exotic animals...no far away places...but to these two little boys on spring break a bag of croutons turned into an adventure!


Nikon D800 | Nikkor 300 f/4 | 1/800 f/14 | ISO 400

SquamishPhoto

D800 • 200mm f2 @ f2.2 • 1/160 • ISO 160

mikep

just an opinion ..... dont think me rude

i like this picture squamish, the face is very strong, especially with the hair color, and she has a good expression that makes the image curious.

however, i am not so keen on the lower half. her chest feels like a blank area, then below that, the thing on her shirt, is it hair? is a little distracting.

can we see a tighter crop ? .... i mean, her face is so good, that i dont feel the image requires the lower half ... if that makes sense

Pierre

@ Pierre.......Do you have any idea what they used to make in that building ? ( What ever it was sure leaked out a lot and got the building really funky....)

Unused grain silos in old port of Montreal, believe it or not, there is a big lobbying from some that wants to keep this historical piece of sh....t. Kind of interesting but very ugly still.

@itsnotmeyouknow love the mood on this, were you laying down? Brrr feel cold and wet.
@Postman, @Coastalconn, @proudgeek jus wow...
@Benji2505 these are growing on me...

SquamishPhoto

just an opinion ..... dont think me rude

i like this picture squamish, the face is very strong, especially with the hair color, and she has a good expression that makes the image curious.

however, i am not so keen on the lower half. her chest feels like a blank area, then below that, the thing on her shirt, is it hair? is a little distracting.

can we see a tighter crop ? .... i mean, her face is so good, that i dont feel the image requires the lower half ... if that makes sense

I don't think its rude at all. I don't find it distracting as I feel that the eyes of the model lead the viewer, but more importantly to me I wanted the crop to include the hand gripping the fence. If I did what you're suggesting I would lose that part of the photo.

dissent

Working on my macro technique. This is a 12 shot stack, handheld, from Zerene Stacker, using a 70-300 VR lens with a Raynox DCR-150 in front. Technique still needs work all the way around, but not bad IMHO for an early attempt.

yeah, this is a couple hours early . . .

Gitzo

@ Dredden.......wow! That Bahrainie Ruby-Throated Strutting Pigeon looks almost exactly like our Terre Haute Strutting Pigeons !

@ Gipper; Let me guess....A rare North American Snow Cheetah ? ( absolutely best cheetah portrait ever, BTW! )

@ Aviachar......Been there, seen that..........but about 1:00 PM, and it didn't look that good ! (perfect angle & timing, BTW)

@ Pippigurl.......I have fed those laughing gulls at least 200 loaves of bread, and so far I have never achieved that nice of a shot ! (And wasted a lot of Fuji film trying!)

@ dissent....it's a great macro shot.......for hand held! But WHY hand held ? People doing macro focus, lock mirrors up, and trip shutter from 10 feet away with wireless remote, all to avoid camera motion; hand held macro.......high speed EF with 1/20,000 flash duration !

Gitzo

I have avoided putting this one up until I could retrieve my software out of my dead iMac and edit out the annoying text that I thought was so clever when I added it; just can't seem to "get around" to getting the Mac's together. BTW......these things may look "cute", and that shot took about 5 years to "catch"......but that's still one of the very few animals on this earth that I would shoot if I had a chance. ( my little rat terrier heads for a romp in the woods every time he thinks I'm not looking.........and these varmints are death to dogs and cats.)



Nikon F-5, ED 80-200 AF 1:2.8 D, scanned from Fujichrome

ErikssonRobin

@ ErikssonRobin.......Kinda hard to tell....but the snake "on the bottom" (head nearest camera), I'm pretty sure is a king snake; and I think the one on top is a common water snake; assuming I'm correct. I can tell you this; there will soon be.........only ONE snake; ( a very fat king snake! )

Actually they all are "Vipera Berus" or commonly known as "European Adder/Viper" but in Swedish we just say "Huggorm". It could very well be the same species you are talking about but with another word for it. There are loads of them coming out after the winter.