ShunCheung Posted April 3, 2017 Share Posted April 3, 2017 Basic Guidelines: In the strictest sense, nature photography should not include "hand of man elements". Please refrain from images with buildings or human made structures like roads, fences, walls. Pets are not permitted. Captive subjects in zoos, arboretums, or aquariums are permitted, but must be declared, and must focus on the subject, not the captivity. Images with obvious human made elements will likely be deleted from the thread, with an explanation to the photographer. Guidelines are based on PSA rules governing Nature photography which also cover the Nature Forum. Keep your image at/under 1000 pixels on the long axis for in-line viewing. Note that this includes photos hosted off-site at Flicker, Photobucket, your own site, etc Are you new to this thread? We post one image per week. Anna's hummingbird (Calypte anna) 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwin Barkdoll Posted April 3, 2017 Share Posted April 3, 2017 Ostrich ferns in the wind, Newfoundland 5 Test Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill J Boyd Posted April 3, 2017 Share Posted April 3, 2017 Bewick Wren found in Austin, Texas. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
funkag Posted April 3, 2017 Share Posted April 3, 2017 Joshua Tree National Park: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnfarrar Posted April 3, 2017 Share Posted April 3, 2017 Sun (not Shun!) over the mountain 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sallymack Posted April 3, 2017 Share Posted April 3, 2017 Backside of displaying peacock. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcstep Posted April 3, 2017 Share Posted April 3, 2017 Coyote Hunts In Snow Coyote Hunts In Snow (Explored) by David Stephens, on Flickr 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwin Barkdoll Posted April 3, 2017 Share Posted April 3, 2017 Excellent coyote, David. The hoarfrost/snow and the grass really complement the colors of the coyote. Heard a bunch of them yipping the other night. Dogs went nuts. Were you in a blind? Can you give some details about the setup, situation and capture etc? 1 Test Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member69643 Posted April 3, 2017 Share Posted April 3, 2017 My dog discovered this raccoon snuggled away in a hole. He wasn't at all perturbed by our presence. I got one shot, then he turned his head and curled up and that was that. :) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcstep Posted April 3, 2017 Share Posted April 3, 2017 Excellent coyote, David. The hoarfrost/snow and the grass really complement the colors of the coyote. Heard a bunch of them yipping the other night. Dogs went nuts. Were you in a blind? Can you give some details about the setup, situation and capture etc? Thanks Edwin. I was in my car-blind. It works amazingly well. Here's an Album of my coyote shots, almost all taken from my car-blind: Best Coyotes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Eckman Posted April 3, 2017 Share Posted April 3, 2017 Spring sighting 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Doo Posted April 3, 2017 Share Posted April 3, 2017 Very nice. Thanks Shun for starting the thread, just beautiful. This Grand Teton image was one of many shot some years ago. Always love this beautiful park! 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miha Posted April 3, 2017 Share Posted April 3, 2017 Magnolia blossom. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hanappa Posted April 3, 2017 Share Posted April 3, 2017 Good morning. I do miss the morning stories and inspiration, though I still enjoy the photos. I will add a Peninsular Rock Gecko (Cnemaspis peninsularis) today. This fellow was hanging out just outside a cave on Bukit Timah, but each time I approached, he would scurry up and behind the rocks. While hiking back down the hill, I thought I'd give it another shot and see if he was still there. I had to use the on-camera flash, and only had time for one picture before he was gone again. From the literature, these lizards are now restricted in Singapore to the central part of the island, in the hills and remaining rainforests. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gup Posted April 3, 2017 Share Posted April 3, 2017 (edited) Imagine needing an 8' stepladder to peer over the top of the downed redwood in the foreground and you will get a sense of the scale of this scene. Now look up at your 8' high ceiling and realize it would be too low to house this log. The largest standing trees were from 7' to 10' across, big enough to fill many rooms wall to wall, and the lowest branches were over 100' in the air (about 10 storeys). The apex in the centre was taller than my 2 1/2 storey home (about 40'). Locals told me this log triggered 6.2 on the Richter scale when it fell and that they all thought they were finally experiencing 'the big one'. Apparently the crash could be heard for 6 miles. It involved three of these trees and the damage still evident since the '90s was the most violent scene I have ever seen. Tons and tons of hundreds of thousands of board feet of stunningly beautiful redwood just wasting away on the forest floor. Splinters reaching dozens of feet into the air as large as the beams supporting modern country homes. It was about a half hour off the road and a very humbling site that I was directed to by a young woman who lives nearby. I used a D800E, AF-S 17-35mm, f10, 1/60, ISO 6400. Edited April 3, 2017 by Gup 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gup Posted April 3, 2017 Share Posted April 3, 2017 Thanks for starting the thread, Shun. I was only able to access the site by about noon today EST. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronald_duren Posted April 3, 2017 Share Posted April 3, 2017 Brewer's blackbird Euphagus cyanocephalus 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member69643 Posted April 3, 2017 Share Posted April 3, 2017 Delete my raccoon post Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bnelson Posted April 3, 2017 Share Posted April 3, 2017 At Antelope Island, only found bison. Way too close for the lens. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShunCheung Posted April 3, 2017 Author Share Posted April 3, 2017 Thanks for starting the thread, Shun. I was only able to access the site by about noon today EST. No problem. If I am available, starting this thread is not a big deal. I go out and take new pictures often enough that I normally don't have problems coming up with new images. I just wish we had the capability to automatically start new threads at a fixed time every week. I am not sure we can pre-determine who will start the following week's thread ahead of time. If nobody volunteers beforehand, someone, anyone, can be the first every Monday morning. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Parsons Posted April 3, 2017 Share Posted April 3, 2017 hundreds of thousands of board feet of stunningly beautiful redwood just wasting away on the forest floor Gup, surely it is not 'wasting away', it is being recycled into nutrients to support further growth. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gup Posted April 4, 2017 Share Posted April 4, 2017 Good point, Tony, of course. I guess it's the builder in me;) Just yesterday I was sitting around a fire with some friends and one was telling us all about his new chain saw/sawmill jig. He can now transform fallen trees into dimension lumber for construction purposes and had 20 or 30 new 6x7" hemlock beams stacked neatly waiting to become dock cribs. These represent about $3500 worth if purchased locally. The hemlocks would eventually become nutrients for the forest too but in this case we just saw the value in producing our own lumber rather than buying it. After all, the boards we buy at the lumber store would also have created nutrients had they been left to live and die naturally. I've bought dozens of fir beams from western Canada and had them shipped here over the years so I guess I saw the downed trees as a huge cache of potential material 'wasting away'. I would NEVER be on board with cutting trees and have taken a great deal of abuse in my life for my attitude regarding that, but I'm also the first to recycle or re-purpose something if I see a way. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bing_huey1 Posted April 4, 2017 Share Posted April 4, 2017 A springtime grouping of slender false Solomon's seal and thimbleberry foliage. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob_bill Posted April 4, 2017 Share Posted April 4, 2017 Posted this last week in Nikon forum, but I don't recognize many of these folks as in that forum so posting it again here. Originally posted it there because it took a second photo to clarify this one. I like to include a surprise in my photos if possible and the background in this one surprised me as I was target fixated on the wood duck even during editing . Those are 2 heads in the water in the background, not rocks. One of which had appeared in my garage as I was waxing my Jeep, but with Maguiar's wax,not Turtle wax. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wayne Melia Posted April 4, 2017 Share Posted April 4, 2017 magnolia bud Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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