DavidTriplett Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 I won't be able to post tomorrow (Monday), so I thought I'd get a little head start and kick off the thread this week. As the 2017 Solar Eclipse seems to be the event of the moment, here is a test image using my intended kit: Nikon D7100 + Tamron 150-600mm/5-6.3 at 600mm/16, ISO 400, 1/40 sec., with home-made solar filter using black polymer filter sheet purchased from Thousand Oaks Optical. Image processed and cropped in LR5. Note the lone sun spot in the lower-right quadrant. We have our spot reserved west of Rexburg, ID, and we're hopeful for an outstanding experience. Happy trails to all our fellow eclipsenics! 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShunCheung Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 Double crested cormorant, Nikon D500 with 200-500mm/f5.6 AF-S VR. What is unusual is that this bird took off towards me. Even though the D500 has excellent AF, the 200-500mm is a slow lens and had a bit of a hard time keeping every frame sharp while I was shooting at 10 frames/second. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sallymack Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 Endangered western pond turtle at Limantour Beach, Point Reyes. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Weishaupt Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 We spent the weekend in the woods of north central Pennsylvania at a foray. It's always fun to get together with other fungally minded folks and crawl around in the forest. I collected 3 species that were new to me, one being this lovely Humaria hemisphaerica.The soft blueish white and thick hairs are distinctive and quite eye catching. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy_szeto Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 Last week I was out trying to take some pictures of birds at Rutgers Garden, NJ, but found the bees and butterflies were quite active. So target changed ;) 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandy Vongries Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcstep Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 Spent 4-days on the islet, Ile aux Perroquet, Quebec, shooting puffin, razorbills and other seabirds. Here's one of my faves, out of 13,000+ shots: Puffin Poses by David Stephens, on Flickr 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill J Boyd Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 Hummingbird in central Texas. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wayne_wrights Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 (edited) Pipevine Swallowtail on Turk's Cap lily. Edited August 14, 2017 by ShunCheung 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcelRomviel Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 As usual a flower from me: 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Doo Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 Butterfly day or what? :) Here is a Monarch. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpalmer57 Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 Went to a local park yesterday and due to recent rains there were mushrooms everywhere! Wish I had a mushroom expert with me. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Weishaupt Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 jpalmer, when you post on MiN there is always a mushroom expert. Some are expert photographers and many of us are quite familiar with fungi. You have a small Amanita, but without better and more details it's not possible to assign a species. Genus is often good enough for just about anything, so it's acceptable to call it Amanita sp.(the sp means species). At my foray last weekend there was considerable discussion/argument among the experts about a couple of the specimens. They never came to a conclusion. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwin Barkdoll Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 Great butterfly shots Mary, Wayne, Andy. I tried unsuccessfully this weekend to get shoot butterflies. I settled on someone much slower, although, I swear it was the fastest snail I've ever seen! 5 Test Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwin Barkdoll Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 We spent the weekend in the woods of north central Pennsylvania at a foray. It's always fun to get together with other fungally minded folks and crawl around in the forest. I collected 3 species that were new to me, one being this lovely Humaria hemisphaerica.The soft blueish white and thick hairs are distinctive and quite eye catching. [ATTACH=full]1204008[/ATTACH] Laura, I like the pun, "eye catching" for an eyelash cup fungus Test Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwin Barkdoll Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 Sallymack, it looks like your western pond turtle has survived quite a scrape 1 Test Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sallymack Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 Sallymack, it looks like your western pond turtle has survived quite a scrape Thanks, Edwin. I wondered if the turtle had been injured. S/he moved very slowly even when threatened by our presence. On the path leading from the parking lot to the beach was not a good place for a turtle. After taking a few shots from increasingly closer, we stepped around the turtle and went our way, hoping s/he made it safely to the nearby pond. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Weishaupt Posted August 14, 2017 Share Posted August 14, 2017 Edwin, That one is more like eye brow fungi.:D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Keefer Posted August 15, 2017 Share Posted August 15, 2017 4 Cheers, Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bing_huey1 Posted August 15, 2017 Share Posted August 15, 2017 Another slow target, a banana slug grazing on cow parsnip seed. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordonjb Posted August 15, 2017 Share Posted August 15, 2017 Spathularia velutipes 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fgorga Posted August 15, 2017 Share Posted August 15, 2017 Delta-spotted Spiketail -- along the Zealand Falls trail in the White Mountain National Forest (New Hampshire) 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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