sallymack Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDMvW Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 FOS (flowers on stem) 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawsonPointers Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 Tropical Kingbird 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Currie Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 Sally should have gotten a long lens sooner I think. Here's mine for today, a bit of fractal nature from the Costa Rica rain forest. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brian_niemi1 Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wayne_wrights Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 Getting ready before the storm. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShunCheung Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 Bald eagle in flight 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRCrowe Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 Wascally Wabbit. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill J Boyd Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 American White Pelican landing at White Rock Lake, Dallas. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gup Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 Hi everyone. I've had a busy winter, so far. Hope you are all well. I'm always excited to see which of my 4 legged friends has survived the annual blood-lust. Now all they have to worry about is making it through the winter, untrained dogs chasing them onto the ice, and hungry wolves. It's comforting to know they feel safe here and spring fawns are just around the corner. This one was taken with a D800E and an AF-S 105mm. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Doo Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 (edited) Earth Ripples (Think the image can look sharper if not for the atmospheric effects.) Olympus EM1 II camera with Panasonic-Leica 100-400mm lens @180mm (effective 361mm): 1/16000s; f/5.6; ISO 2000; Aperture Priority; Pattern Metering Edited January 22, 2018 by Mary Doo 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bnelson Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 A different take on Sally Mack's photo 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deborah Vallette Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sallymack Posted January 22, 2018 Author Share Posted January 22, 2018 A different take on Sally Mack's photo. Stilts are cool! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Weishaupt Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 Wayne, The background colors in your image are simply beautiful. Love it. Oh, yes, good bird too. Folks, let's try to have the MiN guidelines with the opening. It helps keep the hand of human down. Even though those guidelines are posted in their own stickied thread, it's good to repeat it here. Without the guidelines this will become another no words weekly thread, and that's not the point of it. Since Shun did us all a favor and posted those guidelines, when in doubt, check them out. Deborah, It's a great image, but it makes the case for the guidelines being posted in the thread each week. The nest support/platform is clearly a human made feature and something that we avoid in MiN. It's all about nature. Thanks for continuing to come to the party. Monday is always pretty good here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawsonPointers Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 A different take on Sally Mack's photo[ATTACH=full]1229214[/ATTACH] Fantastic! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bing_huey1 Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 Sanderling retreating from surf 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawsonPointers Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 [ATTACH=full]1229216[/ATTACH] Love the different colour of the eyes of the 2 birds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deborah Vallette Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 Wayne, The background colors in your image are simply beautiful. Love it. Oh, yes, good bird too. Folks, let's try to have the MiN guidelines with the opening. It helps keep the hand of human down. Even though those guidelines are posted in their own stickied thread, it's good to repeat it here. Without the guidelines this will become another no words weekly thread, and that's not the point of it. Since Shun did us all a favor and posted those guidelines, when in doubt, check them out. Deborah, It's a great image, but it makes the case for the guidelines being posted in the thread each week. The nest support/platform is clearly a human made feature and something that we avoid in MiN. It's all about nature. Thanks for continuing to come to the party. Monday is always pretty good here. Laura, I am so sorry about that. I did realize that but we boat on the Chesapeake Bat and ALL of the ospreys nest on day markers. It keeps the snakes away from their eggs. And they are on every day marker. we pass 4-5 nests coming into some of the creeks. On our creek we have at least four nesting pairs.They are awesome birds but i'll stop posting them. Thanks, Deborah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Weishaupt Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 Deborah, You're lucky to have so many opportunities to see ospreys. They are great birds to watch and photograph. Please, continue to post images of these birds without the man made platforms. You're a wonderful photographer and your contributions to MiN, and photo.net as a whole are always appreciated. Chesapeake Bay is an amazing environment and I envy you having it at your door step. The nesting platforms (day markers as you call them) are an excellent example of a nature / human interaction zone. This area of photography came under discussion when MiN was gelling. How would we deal with it? Nature has to deal with us so often and in many different ways. Some are beneficial and some are destructive. It's where the PSA Nature Photography rules come into play. Most human made things can't be in a nature photo. There are a handful of exceptions, but those rules were chosen to guide this thread. If the Nature Forum community wants to have a weekly thread with looser guidelines, that should be discussed with Shun, our Mod. This subject comes up occasionally. Maybe it's time to make something new happen. Let MiN continue to be itself and have something else that can actually explore that nature/human zone. I think it could be interesting. We can discuss, through photography and words, the manner of the interaction and the impact it has on nature, both good and bad. I can think of many photographers who take photos that fit into this category. What say you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Gosden Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 Rent a big lens, take pictures of small birds. Red-bellied woodpecker showing where the name comes from. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dieter Schaefer Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 Heldentenor 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Bowes Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 Hello everyone. The gecko I posted Saturday ("Locked Files") lives in the Spyder Lilly cluster at the edge of my driveway. Today, starting my daily walk-about, I noticed him/her again active. In addition to enjoying a sip of the nectar, ants & flies drawn to the flower are feasted upon. Ah, life in Hawaii! ! Aloha Bill 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Parsons Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 If the Nature Forum community wants to have a weekly thread with looser guidelines, that should be discussed with Shun, our Mod. This subject comes up occasionally. Maybe it's time to make something new happen. Let MiN continue to be itself and have something else that can actually explore that nature/human zone. I think it could be interesting. We can discuss, through photography and words, the manner of the interaction and the impact it has on nature, both good and bad. I can think of many photographers who take photos that fit into this category. What say you? This is an interesting suggestion - possibly another weekly thread, maybe nominally at the weekend (since nothing happens then ! :rolleyes: ), along the lines of 'Humans benefitting Nature' ? Many of my pictures are taken on a local Nature Reserve (Cley Marshes, for anyone who's interested), and it is often difficult to avoid showing evidence of the maintenance work done, or the fences needed to keep the wildlife protected. Any thoughts ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Currie Posted January 23, 2018 Share Posted January 23, 2018 I think doing both would be a nice idea. I like the challenge of the current Monday thread, but it might be fun to have a thread where the very thing that disqualifies a picture for one fits it to the other. I'm pretty sure I could come up with a bug on a square post or a lizard on a concrete wall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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