Monday in Nature Weekly Photo August 4, 2014

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<p>Good Morning,<br>

Jeez, we're into August already. I hope you had a great week. We'll just jump in this week. I'll start with the deep greens of the forest canopy reflected in swift moving water up at Delaware Water Gap NRA.</p>

<p>What's naturally flowing by your camera?</p><div></div>

<p>This storm 'flowed by' as we stood at the top of Pike's Peak in Colorado recently.</p><div></div>

<p>I spent last week in northern Maine. The skies were fantastic! Luckily we had clear nights twice that week.</p><div></div>

<p>Red Skimmer found in Austin, Texas. </p><div></div>

<p>Beautiful images there Christoph and Bill.<br>

I'll be sharing images from my sabbatical in Oz for some time. This is an image of a Wombat from Cradle Mountain, Tasmania. If you ever want to go to Australia and see wildlife, don't miss Tasmania, The challenge in photographing wombats (as with many Australian mammals) that they are either nocturnal or at best crepuscular. Fortunately the K3 is an excellent camera at fairly high ISOs.</p>

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<p>Wombat, Cradle Mountain, Tasmania. Pentax K3, Sigma 400mm f5.6 APO Macro</p>

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<p>I had to truy and capture the light was flowing through the cap of this mushroom.</p><div></div>

<p>Experimenting with infrared, using Cokin's sheet filters. Normally I'd try to avoid shooting into the sun, since those sheet filters are notoriously flare prone. But I tried a few shooting into the setting sun and liked the veiling flare on this one. The large reddish-brown mushroom turned an odd blue-gray color in IR.</p>

<center><img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/17823939-lg.jpg" alt="Blue 'shroom, I saw you standing alone" width="700" height="875" border="0" /><em><br />Nikon D2H, Tamron Adaptall 24mm f/2.5<br />with combination of various red, polarizers and other filters for color infrared</em>.</center>

<p>A pair of gulls nesting on the Farne Islands of the English east coast. Not sure if anything is flowing except maybe some gull affection.</p><div></div>

<p>Nikon F2 and 135mm f3.5 AI Nikkor; Fuji C-41 @EI 200.</p>

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<p>My beautiful blue morning glories are finally blooming.</p><div></div>

<p>Douglas, thanks for teaching me a new word. Was not familiar with the term 'crepuscular.'</p>

<p>Some really cool images.</p>

<p>This snoozing nighthawk caught my lens while I was flowing slowly along the road to Hart Mountain Antelope Refuge. </p><div></div>

<p>Love on a wild carrot.</p><div></div>

<p>Colony of sea lions on Gardner Bay beach, Espanola Is., Galapagos.</p><div></div>

<p>Rick,<br>

That image of you's is SPECTACULAR! Amazing affect!</p>

<p>Lex,</p>

<p>I've tried doing UV with pinhole lenses because all my lenses absorb too much UV. I'd love to try the effect you have been doing for some research a colleague of mine is working on. Do you have a good reference to learn the technique?</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

<p>Doug</p>

<p><strong>Western Kingbird Poses</strong></p>

<p><a title="Western Kingbird Poses by David Stephens, on Flickr" href=" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3835/14624159947_899d3f268a_c.jpg" alt="Western Kingbird Poses" width="800" height="533" /></a></p>

<p>Rick, I have been to that beach a couple of times. Your image sure brings back a lot of memories for me. I got some mocking bird images there.</p>

<p>Cormorant taking off, Redwood Shores, California.</p><div></div>

1201 hours Sunday Aug3 2014 sucking on a thistle in the patch of 'em at the corner of the main yard. I'm

not really a “bug guy” in terms of knowing or caring what names or classifications man has given them, I

just photograph 'em because the forest holds a variety which are constantly flowing through on the wing

and along the mountainside on sunny days you can search out camera angles catching dramatic

backlighting with the deep shade of the forest behind giving photographs with punchy chromas and strong

high-contrast subject to background ratios. A friend of mine who is deeply involved in bug stuff tells me this

one is known as a Woodlands Skipper.<div></div>

<p>fawn munching on some forsythia while mosquitoes were munching on her</p><div></div>

<p>Dew covered moth waiting for the warmth of the morning sun.</p><div></div>

<p>Hot off the press from my garden: Banded Longhorn Beetles frolicking on the Sombrero Salsa Red Echinacea coneflower.</p><div></div>

<p>Rick, stunning shot. Glenn, love the dew covered moth.</p>

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<p>Crepuscular is one of my favorite terms - and one often encountered in dealing with dragonflies and damselflies. So many shots in the evening are at ISO-800 (as is this one). Here is an American Rubyspot coming to rest just above the creek near dusk.</p><div></div>

<p>It wasn't flowing but flying by my camera and landed on my Clematis;</p><div></div>